That’s a great question. Mobile weekend follows in the tradition of Startup Weekend. I was lucky enough to have participated in Startup Weekend Toronto and Facebook Weekend Beta (and to have been one of the organizers). We’ve thought for a long time that Mobile would be a great forum for such an event. Here, in point form, is what the weekend is about. We will be putting up more details later tonight.

The idea behind Mobile Weekend is this:

• Get a bunch of brilliant, passionate and motivated individuals together over a weekend
• Have that group come up with and select an idea for a mobile application (most likely Java based or web based)
• Build the application over the weekend with the goal of launching a fully functional prototype by Sunday night
• Maybe, just maybe end up with a company to carry forward the idea. If nothing comes of it, we will probably release all code to the open-source community (assuming the participants all agree)
• The key is, this is community driven. The participants are the ones that make it happen (we’re just helping organize the event)

Mobile Weekend hopes to be able to provide the following to the participants

• A great event where we can all have lots of fun and learn
• To grow awareness of the tech community locally and beyond
• A great opportunity for networking within our tech community
• Provide all needed infrastructure for the weekend (servers, wireless, source control)
• Feed and water the participants (we hope to be able to provide all food and drink for the event through sponsorship, might also raise some money by selling tickets to the event)
• Swag (You know you want it)

More to come… Dan