JailbreakCon

Craig Fox - CEO of WWJC

JailbreakCon or WWJC (Worldwide Jailbreak Convention; formerly MyGreatFest) is a convention centered around the iOS jailbreak community. The day after the first one was held, the name was changed from MyGreatFest to JailbreakCon (WWJC). It is currently run by SaurikIT and Craig Fox.

JailbreakCon San Francisco, June 2015

This event will be held at 435 Broadway Street in San Francisco on June 20-21.

JailbreakCon San Francisco, April 2014

This event was held at the South San Francisco Conference Center on April 12-13.

Articles about it: "The Jailbreak House - Jailbreak Con's Prelude" (ModMyi), "JailbreakCon First Day, and Talk on Running a Repo" (ModMyi), "A Bunch of Photos from JailbreakCon" (ModMyi), "JailbreakCon 2014 day one" (iMore), "JailbreakCon 2014 day two" (iMore), Several articles by Cammy Harbison (iDigitalTimes), "JailbreakCon 2014: behind the scene" (iDownloadBlog), "JailbreakCon: The Best Weekend of My Life" (TTWJA).

Workshops and mini-talks (first day)

• Sebastien Page, "Marketing 101 for tweak developers" - slides + video
• Kyle Matthews, "Running a repo" - slides + video
• Haifisch, "Where to start with reverse engineering" - slides + video
• Tim Collins (TCcentex), "Because of Ezra" - slides + video
• Julian Weiss (insanj), "Taking a tweak from idea to implementation" - video
• Bryce Dougherty (bd452), libPassword and Zen Notifications - video
• CoolStar, Developing tweaks for jailbroken devices without a Mac - slides + video
• CompilingEntropy, "Fuzzing Mobile Safari" - slides + video

Talks (second day)

• Joshua M. Tucker, "From idea to reality" - slides + video.
• Steven De Franco (iH8sn0w), "Exploring Apple's iCloud Activation Lock" - slides + video.
• Filippo Bigarella, "A tale of tweaking" - slides + video.
• Ryan Petrich, "Building successful tweaks" - slides + video.
• Britta Gustafson, "So what is this Reddit thing?" - slides + video.
• Kevin Bradley (nitoTV), "Why isn't the Apple TV 3 jailbroken?" - slides + video.
• Thientam Bach (Surenix), "A designer's perspective" - video + ModMyi article.
• Cyril Cattiaux (pod2g), "The story behind jailbreaking" - video.
• winocm, "Low level iPhone programming" - slides + video.
• Jay Freeman (saurik) - "Jailbreaking education: Making academia work for you"

JailbreakCon New York, August 2013

This event was held at Radisson Hotel New Rochelle (New York) on 23-24 August. The first day was a developer workshop, and the second day was the main event.

The CopyTrans Blog has a post describing the general experience of the conference.

Workshops (first day)

Jay Freeman (saurik), Britta Gustafson, and Ryan Petrich answered questions and taught aspects of developing and contributing. Most of this was not recorded, but there's some video of Ryan Petrich answering development questions.

Speakers (second day)

Recorded video stream of entire second day.

• Joshua Hill (p0sixninja) spoke about OpenJailbreak, explaining the project's goals. He published his slides (PPT). Several blogs wrote articles summarizing the talk: iFans, iJailbreak, AppAdvice, and ModMyi. p0sixninja also discussed the status of the iOS 7 jailbreak, summarized by ModMyi.
• Nikias Bassen (pimskeks) gave an explanation of how evasi0n works. Here are his slides (PDF) and an article from iFans that summarizes the talk.
• Carsten Heinelt, developer of iFile, discussed some iFile features, explained why iFile can't be published as-is in the App Store, and talked about the future of iFile. This ModMyi article summarizes the talk.
• Ryan Petrich, developer of many tweaks, explained some of the developer libraries he maintains and announced his upcoming revival of TweakWeek. Here is his example code, an iDownloadBlog article about TweakWeek 2, and a ModMyi article about it.
• Adam Bell, another tweak developer, discussed developing Message Box and demonstrated how to use | Cycript to prototype a tweak. Here's a video of the talk and his slides and example code. iFans wrote an article summarizing the talk.
• Jay Freeman (saurik) talked about the complications of determining whether jailbreaking is legal. iFans wrote an article about their impression of the talk.
• Filippo Bigarella, another tweak developer, talked about the process of developing tweaks. iFans wrote an article summarizing the talk.
• TCcentex, a theme artist, told the story of E is for Ezra, a theme that raises money for the ModMyi founder's charitable organization that supports neuroblastoma research. He released E is for Ezra 2 during his presentation. Video of the talk.
• Britta Gustafson, SaurikIT community manager, talked about why people jailbreak their devices. Video of the talk + written transcript.
  • Lightning talks (two minutes each): Bradley Friedman (Sirex), Julian Weiss (insanj), Adam D (kirb), Daniel Ferreira (theiostream), and Conrad Kramer (conradev). These developers talked about their tweaks and shared advice on developing. Video of the lightning talks.

JailbreakCon San Francisco, September 2012

This event was held at South San Francisco Conference Center on 29 September.

Archive of video live stream (since 2011, includes 2012 event).

Speakers

• Aaron Ash, developer of Barrel and other tweaks; Video stream archive of talk.
• Carsten Heinelt, developer of iFile; Video stream archive of talk.
• Cyril Cattiaux (pod2g), jailbreak developer. Video of talk, and talk slides (PDF).
• Steven De Franco (iH8sn0w), jailbreak developer. Video of talk, and slides (Keynote).
• Kevin Bradley (nitoTV), AppleTV researcher. Video of talk, and slides (PDF).
• Ryan Petrich, tweak developer. Video of talk, and slides with speaker notes (PDF).
• Justin Williams (Jaywalker), jailbreak developer. Video stream archive of Ryan Petrich, Justin Williams (Jaywalker), Jay Freeman (saurik), and Dustin Howett.
• Jay Freeman (saurik), Cydia developer. Video of talk
• Dustin Howett, tweak developer. Video stream archive of Ryan Petrich, Justin Williams (Jaywalker), Jay Freeman (saurik), and Dustin Howett, and slides from Dustin Howett's talk (Keynote).
• Josh M. Tucker, tweak concept designer. Video of talk
• Austin Bradley, theme artist.
• Nikias Bassen (pimskeks), jailbreak developer. Slides of talk (PDF).

Articles

• Redmond Pie: "JailbreakCon 2012 (WWJC): As It Happened"
• iDownloadBlog: "The tale of my three days at the epicenter of the jailbreak community"
• iDownloadBlog: "JailbreakCon 2012 schedule"
• iJailbreak: "The World Wide Jailbreaking Convention (JailbreakCon 2012) Overview"
• Cult of Mac: "The Future Of Jailbreaking: A Roundup Of What You Missed At JailbreakCon 2012"
• JailbreakNation: "Pod2G Interview On The Future Of Jailbreaking And His Personal Experience"

MyGreatFest London, September 2011

This event was held at The Old Truman Brewery in London on 17 September.

Archived video stream of whole day; YouTube archive of morning sessions and afternoon sessions.

Speakers

• Aaron Ash, developer of Barrel and other tweaks - talk slides (PPT)
• Carsten Heinelt, developer of iFile
• iDroid Team Members - iDroid talk slides (PDF)
• James Whelton
• p0sixninja and OPK - Chronic Dev talk slides (PDF)
• saurik

Articles

• iDownloadBlog: "MyGreatFest — A Roundup of Everything You Missed"
• AppAdvice: "From Cydia To iOS 5 Jailbreak - Here's Everything That Happened"
• ReadWriteWeb: "Jailbreaking Convention MyGreatFest Brings iPhone Hacking to Mainstream"
• TheNextWeb: "Cydia and Jailbreak apps: The ecosystem, developers and increasing revenues"
• BBC News: "Who are the jailbreakers?"
• CNet: "I'd recommend jailbreaking to anyone"
• AppAdvice: "The Chronic Dev Talks iOS 5 Jailbreak & Plans For The Future"
• iDownloadBlog: "The Chronic Dev Team Talks iPhone 5 Jailbreak and New Exploits at MyGreatFest"
• iDownloadBlog: "Saurik, the Father of Cydia, Talks About the State of Cydia and Jailbreaking at MyGreatFest"
• Redmond Pie: "JailbreakCon 2011 London (Formerly MyGreatFest): The First Ever Jailbreak Convention As It Unfolded"
• iMore: "Enter @JailbreakCon"

External Links

• JailbreakCon Homepage