Black Berry Dev Workshop

Hi all, 

I'm currently working for RIM (creators of the BlackBerry) in 
Waterloo, and will be coming back to UVic this summer as a Campus 
Ambassador for the company, along with another comp sci student from 
UVic. 
One of the ideas that I wanted to see the light was the Development 
Workshop for the BlackBerry platform. RIM will be soon releasing 
updated versions of many of their public development APIs, and in 
light of the BlackBerry App World being pushed to the market I thought 
it will be great timing for us to get more people developing cool apps 
for the platform. 

I gathered enough internal support here at RIM for this initiative, so 
you can be sure that the workshop materials will be of top quality. 
We're thinking of running a development contest as well, after the 
workshops, to get people engaged in the development. Some interesting 
prizes will be awarded. 

With this in mind, given that enough interest for those events will be 
generated it will be very possible to have someone from RIM (primary 
developer of a more useful API) to fly in from Waterloo and lead the 
workshops. 

The goal of this post is to make you all aware of this initiative, and 
hopefully gather some feedback on the idea, as well as any tips and 
suggestions on how to appeal to Computer Science/Engineering students 
at UVic and get them to attend. If any of you would like to gather 
more information - just post here, or send me an email 
(gkru...@rim.blackberry.net).