C4 (conference) explained
C4 was a Macintosh software developers conference held in Chicago, Illinois. The conference ran from 2006[1] through 2009. It was created by Jonathan Rentzsch after the demise of MacHack.[2] In May 2010 Rentzsch announced[3] that he would no longer operate the conference due to a dissatisfaction with Apple's policies toward iPhone OS development and the lack of a strong negative reaction from the Apple developer community.[4]
Etymology
The name C4 stands for Code Culture Conspiracy Conference[5]
C4[0]
The first C4 conference was a two-day event held at the University Center in downtown Chicago. It was held on October 20 and October 21, 2006, with an optional trip to Adler Planetarium's TimeSpace show for attendees on October 22.[2] Due to that year's Chicago Marathon, attendees unable to stay downtown were provided free passes to the Chicago 'L' railway system for the weekend (an arrangement referred to as "Plan 'L'").[6]
Presenters
- Steve Dekorte, software developer
- Drunkenbatman, blogger, organizer of Evening@Adler (held at Adler Planetarium)
- Brian W. Fitzpatrick, developer of Subversion, Fire and Apache Portable Runtime
- John Gruber, coauthor of Markdown and influential blogger (see Daring Fireball)
- Gus Mueller, creator of VoodooPad
- Jonathan Rentzsch, software developer
- Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire
- Aaron Hillegass, software developer and Cocoa instructor at Big Nerd Ranch
- Paul Kafasis, software developer and founder of Rogue Amoeba
Notable attendees
C4[1]
The second C4 conference was held at the Chicago City Centre Hotel on August 10 - August 12, 2007.[7] Like the first conference, C4[1] was organized by Jonathan Rentzsch.
Presenters
[9]
Daniel Lyons, senior editor at Forbes magazine and writer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs", was scheduled to speak at C4 but was unable due to an illness.
C4[2]
The third C4 conference was held at the Chicago City Centre Hotel on September 5 - September 7, 2008.[10] Like the previous conferences, C4[2] was organized by Jonathan Rentzsch. He announced the conference via Twitter feed on April 23, 2008.[11]
Presenters
C4[3]
The fourth C4 conference was held at the DoubleTree Chicago from September 25 to September 27, 2009. It sold out within eight hours of the initial announcement. This year's version featured Blitz talks, talks held between the conference's standard presentations. In these talks, speakers were held to 5 minutes per presentation, with each slide having a maximum of 20 seconds on screen.
Presenters
- Augie Fackler, Google engineer
- Christopher Lloyd, creator of Cocotron
- Dave Dribin, founder of BitMaki
- John C. Welch
- Jonathan Rentzsch
- Matt Drance
- Michael Lopp, author of Rands in Repose
- Peter Wayner
- Patrick Thomson
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External links
Notes and References
- Web site: C4. Jonathan Rentzsch. 2007-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070320234025/http://c4.rentzsch.com/0/ . 2007-03-20.
- Web site: C4: Chicago Mac Developer Conference . Jonathan Rentzsch . 2007-07-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070624031258/http://rentzsch.com/c4/zero . 2007-06-24 . dead .
- Web site: C4 Release. Jonathan Rentzsch. 2010-05-12.
- Web site: Stephen Shankland . Apple iPhone move kills Mac coding conference . CNET . 11 July 2024 . May 13, 2010.
- Web site: Rentzsch. Wolf. The Culture Didn't Change First. edgecasesshow.com/093-the-culture-didnt-change-first.html. 20 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20150210040109/http://edgecasesshow.com/093-the-culture-didnt-change-first.html. 10 February 2015. dead.
- Web site: C4 Hotels: Plan 'L' . Jonathan Rentzsch . 2007-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070624031200/http://rentzsch.com/c4/hotelPlanL . 2007-06-24 . dead .
- Web site: C4[1]: August 10–12, 2007|author=Jonathan Rentzsch|accessdate=2007-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524012537/http://rentzsch.com/c4/one#|archive-date=2007-05-24|url-status=dead].
- Web site: Red Sweater Acquires MarsEdit. 2007-06-14.
- Web site: C4[1] Registration Open|accessdate=2007-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610224304/http://rentzsch.com/c4/oneOpen#|archive-date=2007-06-10|url-status=dead].
- Web site: c4[2] Registration Open ]. 2008-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080804234037/http://rentzsch.com/c4/twoOpen . 2008-08-04 . dead .
- Web site: Twitter Update. Jonathan Rentzsch. 2008-04-23.
- Web site: C4 . Jonathan Rentzsch . 2007-05-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090813142931/http://rentzsch.com/c4/threeOpen . August 13, 2009 .