Because the first Monday of January is New Years Day, we’re going to be pushing the first meeting of 2007 back by a week. We’re really kicking it off with a bang though. We’ve got two speakers with a ton of experience to tap into and a great topic. Here’s the info in MoMo standard format:

• What: January 2007 Mobile Monday (Dealing with Device Proliferation)
• When: January 8th, 2007 7:00pm
• Where: AOL Building 12, 401 Ellis St., Mountain View, CA
• Who: Anyone interested in mobility
• Cost: Nothing!

We’ve got two speakers lined up for the evening:

• Barbara Ballard - from Little Springs Design will talk about various strategies for handling the multiple-device rendering problem, including class-based design: a hybrid approach that both reduces costs over some approaches and improves the user experience.
• Tom Park - Director of Engineering at Hands-On Mobile is going to talk about the development end of dealing with device proliferation. Device proliferation is a topic that affects all mobile developers, whether the content is delivered via SMS, WAP, or Java/BREW clients. This talk will focus on the problems and solutions for efficiently deploying JavaME apps to hundreds of phones.

Should be a fantastic evening, hope to see you all there!

- Mike

I announced these two meetings at the MoMo this week, a few people asked for pointers:

• Symbian Programming SIG on Dec 12th, the topic is TV on the mobile phone
• Homebrew Mobile Phone Club on Dec 13th featuring the GreenPhone, Encrypted SoftPhone, and Sun’s plans for J2ME

Should be a great week, hope to see some of you there. - Mike