JailbreakCon

JailbreakCon or WWJC (Worldwide Jailbreak Convention; formerly MyGreatFest) was 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 was run by SaurikIT and Craig Fox.

JailbreakCon San Francisco, June 2015[edit]

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

JailbreakCon San Francisco, April 2014[edit]

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

Articles about it: "The Jailbreak House - Jailbreak Con's Prelude" [Archived 2014-04-15 at the Wayback Machine] (ModMyi), "JailbreakCon First Day, and Talk on Running a Repo" [Archived 2014-04-15 at the Wayback Machine] (ModMyi), "A Bunch of Photos from JailbreakCon" [Archived 2014-04-16 at the Wayback Machine] (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)[edit]

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^{[dead link]} + video

Talks (second day)[edit]

Joshua M. Tucker, "From idea to reality" - slides^{[dead link]} + video.
Steven De Franco (iH8sn0w), "Exploring Apple's iCloud Activation Lock" - slides + video.
Filippo Bigarella, "A tale of tweaking" - slides [Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine] + video.
Ryan Petrich, "Building successful tweaks" - slides + video.
Britta Gustafson, "So what is this Reddit thing?" - slides [Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine] + video.
Kevin Bradley (nitoTV), "Why isn't the Apple TV 3 jailbroken?" - slides^{[dead link]} + video.
Thientam Bach (Surenix), "A designer's perspective" - video + ModMyi article [Archived 2014-04-17 at the Wayback Machine].
Cyril Cattiaux (pod2g), "The story behind jailbreaking" - video.
winocm, "Low level iPhone programming" - slides^{[dead link]} + video.
Jay Freeman (saurik) - "Jailbreaking education: Making academia work for you"

JailbreakCon New York, August 2013[edit]

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 [Archived 2013-11-23 at the Wayback Machine].

Workshops (first day)[edit]

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)[edit]

Recorded video stream of entire second day. [Archived 2013-08-26 at the Wayback Machine]

Joshua Hill (p0sixninja) spoke about OpenJailbreak, explaining the project's goals. He published his slides (PPT)^{[dead link]}. Several blogs wrote articles summarizing the talk: iFans [Archived 2013-08-29 at the Wayback Machine], iJailbreak, AppAdvice [Archived 2013-08-25 at the Wayback Machine], and ModMyi [Archived 2013-08-30 at the Wayback Machine]. p0sixninja also discussed the status of the iOS 7 jailbreak, summarized by ModMyi [Archived 2013-08-30 at the Wayback Machine].
Nikias Bassen (pimskeks) gave an explanation of how evasi0n works. Here are his slides (PDF)^{[dead link]} and an article from iFans that summarizes the talk [Archived 2013-09-04 at the Wayback Machine].
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. [Archived 2013-08-31 at the Wayback Machine]
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 [Archived 2013-08-31 at the Wayback Machine].
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 [Archived 2014-08-17 at the Wayback Machine].
Jay Freeman (saurik) talked about the complications of determining whether jailbreaking is legal. iFans wrote an article about their impression of the talk [Archived 2013-09-01 at the Wayback Machine].
Filippo Bigarella, another tweak developer, talked about the process of developing tweaks. iFans wrote an article summarizing the talk [Archived 2014-08-17 at the Wayback Machine].
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[edit]

This event was held at South San Francisco Conference Center on 29 September 2012.

Archive of video live stream [Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine] (since 2011, includes 2012 event).

Speakers[edit]

Aaron Ash, developer of Barrel and other tweaks; Video stream archive of talk [Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine].
Carsten Heinelt, developer of iFile; Video stream archive of talk [Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine].
Cyril Cattiaux (pod2g), jailbreak developer. Video of talk, and talk slides (PDF).
Steven De Franco (iH8sn0w), jailbreak developer. Video of talk, and slides^{[dead link]} (Keynote).
Kevin Bradley (nitoTV), AppleTV researcher. Video of talk, and slides (PDF).
Ryan Petrich, tweak developer. Video of talk, and slides with speaker notes [Archived 2014-12-21 at the Wayback Machine] (PDF).
Justin Williams (Jaywalker), jailbreak developer. Video stream archive of Ryan Petrich, Justin Williams (Jaywalker), Jay Freeman (saurik), and Dustin Howett [Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine].
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 [Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine], 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[edit]

MyGreatFest London, September 2011[edit]

This event was held at The Old Truman Brewery in London on 17 September 2012.

Archived video stream of whole day^{[dead link]}; YouTube archive of morning sessions and afternoon sessions.

Speakers[edit]

Aaron Ash, developer of Barrel and other tweaks - talk slides (PPT)
Carsten Heinelt, developer of iFile
iDroid Team Members [Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine] - iDroid talk slides [Archived 2012-05-03 at the Wayback Machine] (PDF)
James Whelton
p0sixninja and OPK - Chronic Dev talk slides (PDF)
saurik

Articles[edit]

External Links[edit]

JailbreakCon Homepage