There are not many hacker gatherings that can claim to happen in a place where Computer history really happened. I think this year’s edition of OverTheAir managed to definitely be high up on that list. The event took place at Bletchley Park, the location of the British Intelligence arm called the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) during World War II and where famously the German Enigma messages were decoded. It also happens to be the home of the National Museum of Computing, but more importantly in this case, during the weekend of September 30th and October 1st it was home to the epicentre of mobile development, as it hosted all the hackers and attendees to OverTheAir 2011.
We at WAC didn’t want to miss the opportunity to mingle with all the attendees and present some of the work we have been doing regarding Network APIs. OverTheAir is a very eclectic event because it’s not focused on a specific platform. People bring on hacks using mobile web, Android, iPhone.. sometimes even feature phones and Arduinos! As we are currently introducing our Payment API, which works using standards and across all of those platforms, we thought it made a good audience fit.
