C4 (conference)

C4 is a Macintosh software developers conference held in Chicago, Illinois. The first conference (C4 [0] ) was held on October 20–October 21 2006 with an optional event on October 22.cite web|url=http://c4.rentzsch.com/0/|title=C4|author=Jonathan Rentzsch|accessdate=2007-05-09] The second conference (C4 [1] ) was held on August 10–August 12 2007.cite web|url=http://rentzsch.com/c4/one|title=C4 [1: August 10-12 2007|author=Jonathan Rentzsch|accessdate=2007-05-09] The conference was created by Jonathan Rentzsch after the demise of MacHack.cite web|url=http://rentzsch.com/c4/zero|title= C4: Chicago Mac Developer Conference|author=Jonathan Rentzsch|accessdate=2007-07-08]

C4 [0]

The first C4 conference was a two-day event held at the [http://www.universitycenter.com/ 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. 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'").cite web|url=http://rentzsch.com/c4/hotelPlanL|title=C4 Hotels: Plan 'L'|author=Jonathan Rentzsch|accessdate=2007-05-09]

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

*James Duncan Davidson, former Sun Microsystems engineer, creator of Tomcat and Ant

C4 [1]

The second C4 conference was held at the Chicago City Centre Hotel on August 10–August 12 2007. Like the first conference, C4 [1] was organized by Jonathan Rentzsch.

=Presenterscite web|url=http://rentzsch.com/c4/oneOpen|title=C4 [1 Registration Open|accessdate=2007-06-14] =

*Tim Burks, RubyObjC developer
*Drunkenbatman
*Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS
*Bob Ippolito, PyObjC developer
*Daniel Jalkut, developer of MarsEdit (acquired from Brent Simmons)cite web|url=http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/282/red-sweater-acquires-marsedit|title=Red Sweater Acquires MarsEdit|accessdate=2007-06-14]
*Jonathan Rentzch
*Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic Inc.
*Wil Shipley, creator of Delicious Library
*Shawn Morel, VMware developer working on Fusion

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.cite web|url=http://rentzsch.com/c4/twoOpen|title=c4 [2] Registration Open|accessdate=2008-09-06] Like the previous conferences, C4 [2] was organized by Jonathan Rentzsch. He announced the conference via [http://www.twitter.com/c4 Twitter feed] on April 23, 2008.cite web|url=http://twitter.com/c4/statuses/795425268|title= Twitter Update|author=Jonathan Rentzsch|accessdate=2008-04-23]

=Presenters=

* Alex Payne
* Brent Simmons
* Buzz Andersen
* Craig Hockenberry
* Mike Lee
* Rich Siegel
* Richard Hipp
* Thomas Ptacek
* Troy Gaul
* Wil Shipley

References

External links

* [http://rentzsch.com/share/c4-schedule.pngC4 [0 schedule] * [http://rentzsch.com/c4/ Jonathan Rentzsch's blog posts about C4]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/tags/c4/ Photos of C4] by attendee James Duncan Davidson at Flickr
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/tags/c4/ Photos of C4] by presenter John Gruber at Flickr