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With more from last week's Nokia World event in London, Nokia and Microsoft want to reach out to developers...
This from Nokia developer... At Nokia World 2011, Reggie Hutcherson, Director of Windows Phone Developer Experience for Nokia, and Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Windows Phone at Microsoft, shared the stage to answer some of your questions about the new Windows Phone ecosystem. As part of their presentation, they revealed details around a massive new device-seeding program where we expect to put 25,000 Nokia devices running Windows Phone into the hands of developers around the world.
To help ensure that you are ready to make the most of these opportunities, an extensive program for training is in place, including a joint calendar of events and activities between now and the middle of next summer.
One element is the Nokia Roadshow, which has already been in six cities and visits to nine more cities are planned. Nokia is planning an additional 150 events, as well as university engagements to train the next generation of mobile developers are also in the works. In addition, several new mobile development competitions (including cloud-based development and spectator competitions) are going to be launched in the near future.
“We are working very hard with our Developer & Platform Evangelism team to get developers trained,” said Brandon. Microsoft expects to have just over 1,000 related developer events during the 12 months ending June 2012, and these events are both in person and streamed, and will reach all major geographies.
They are also investing in a broad range of video-based training that you will be able to use, including:
- 10 hours of content for the absolute beginner
- 14 hours of developer sessions for the intermediate developer
- 7 hours of advanced content delivered during the Build Conference
They are also working with their field offices to localize this training, as needed. And as Brandon pointed out, they are working to ensure that all developers have a point of contact in the countries in which we support application intake for publishing, including 68 mobile champs in 38 countries.
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