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Orange Partner Camp, Faro, Portugal, 14 - 16 April 2008
Orange Partner Camp, Faro 2008
The 7th Partner Camp: a voyage of discovery to help you learn and understand how you can work with Orange and the France Telecom Group. And it started with recognition of the vital role of Orange Partner members:
"Alone, we are nothing. We need 3rd party applications to accelerate and to enrich our offers."
Yves Tyrode, Executive Vice President, Orange France Telecom, in the opening pow-wow
Orange France Telecom colleagues from all across the business came to talk to you, see your products, help you with development, answer your questions, and have some fun, together.
We hope you find this post-event website gives a good flavour of our time in Faro.
Below are a few highlights we'd like to share with you in addition...
 13 APIs launched at Partner Camp
2 areas to develop and test
100 sessions
37 speed dating contestants and 100 1-2-1s
2 contests
13 sponsors
Thanks to all of you who came along, and took advantage of all the opportunities to learn, share and explore with us. We hope you enjoyed it, and found it as beneficial to your business as we did.
13 APIs launched at Partner Camp
We have opened APIs so that Orange Partner members can gain access to the core tools of our infrastructure, and use them to add value to your applications. And (since being launched at Partner Camp) they're all available to use, now, here on the Orange Partner website, in the new
access Orange APIs section
As introduced in the Orange API and Widget workshop at Partner Camp, there are 4 different types of API, each offering access to different functionality for completely different purposes:
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Advanced Communication APIs:
... allow you to integrate Orange communication services into business applications, to bring convergence services to users' desktops and screens |
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Instant Communication APIs:
... allow you to introduce telecommunication services into your internet applications, such as voice, SMS, geolocation |
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Personal APIs:
... allow Orange customers to access their profile, contacts, messages, calendar and photos via your website |
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Web 2.0 Community APIs:
... allow developers to create widgets and mobile widgets for our webtop, Bubbletop, and mash-ups for our photo sharing product, Pikeo |
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Find out more and start using the APIs -
access Orange APIs
Find out more about the winning applications from the API and widget contest -
see how these guys made use of the Orange APIs
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2 areas to develop and test
New to Partner Camp:
the developer play zone and the mash pit.
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developer play zone
The developer play zone gave you the chance to code test and play 24 hours a day.
Over 40 handsets were available for you to test out your products.
The demos on show reflected products for all kinds of services, mobile and converged...
find out more about the developer play zone |
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mash pit
In the mash pit, members from our API teams were on hand to help you create applications and widgets using our APIs, support that many of you took advantage of to build entries for the Orange API and widget contest.
find out more about the winning applications
find out more about our APIs
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"Having been to Partner Camp before, I thought I knew it all, but this Faro Experience was even better and gave me more input that I could ever imagine."
Michael Carlqvist Solutions Marketing Manager, Aepona |
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100 sessions
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There were around 100 sessions and workshops from Orange France Telecom and our sponsors, which gave you the opportunity to learn and understand more about our requirements, and get the technical and commercial information to do business with us.
find out more and view the session presentations
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37 speed dating contestant and 100 1-2-1s
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The organised meet us activities were extremely popular – 100 of you requested 1-2-1 meetings, and 37 of you took part in speed dating (double this number applied!). Plus 38 of you applied for the
Orange Innovation Contest –
find out more about the contest
The meet us activities were a great way of getting your product in front of a whole range of people from Orange France Telecom and our sponsors.
Whether it was 1-2-1s with people who want to find out more about your specific product, the 18 from Orange and our sponsors who you met speed dating or the 20-strong judging panel for the
Orange Innovation Contest, these activities helped you efficiently meet the right contacts.
Speed dating contestants had 4 minutes to present their product to three different groups of people from Orange France Telecom, and also our sponsors.
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We saw 37 great presentations about a real range of mobile and converged products and services, including content, applications, handset based apps, tools for developers to use, business and consumer products… well done to all those who managed to get their messages across in such a short timeslot.
We also gave you the chance to provide product details and request a pre-arranged 1-2-1 meeting with interested people from Orange.
100 of you applied for 1-2-1s in this way, and many useful connections have been made as a result.
Plus we know that many of you had ad hoc meetings at Partner Camp, with us, with our sponsors, with your peers. We could see you at dinner, in the bar, by the pool, with or without laptops and beer, deep in conversation...
From your feedback, we know that you found the organised meet us activities really valuable.
"It is critically important to understand the Orange vision and to meet with the key executives behind the vision in order to identify both immediate and longer-term opportunities for supplying technology companies."
Dr Daniel Trangmar, Vice President, EMEA FutureDial Inc.
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13 sponsors
We owe a huge thank you to our sponsors for all their support, and their ongoing contribution to Partner Camp.
find out more about our sponsors
"This was my first time attending, a phenomenally and professionally arrange big event bringing together major players in the mobile industry from all over the world. Brilliant job and many thanks to Orange Partner Camp team and hope to attend the next one."
Vesa Tiihonen, Senior Manager of Engineering, Symbian
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"Orange Partner Camp continues to defy gravity. This super-fun, must-attend, signature event allows all participants in the mobile and broadband ecosystem to accomplish more in 3 days than most do in months. A perfect blend of business & technical tracks, set in a relaxed atmosphere, allows information to flow easily and create deep and meaningful relationships."
Larry Berkin, VP Developer Ecosystem and Technology Acquisition, ACCESS
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