The document discusses a mobile application called "The Sheffield App" that was recently launched to promote the city of Sheffield. It asks members of the mobile developer community for their opinions on the app. Specifically, it asks if anyone was involved in producing the app, what they like and do not like about it, if it should have been something other than just brochure information, how much it cost to produce, and if there is an opportunity for an alternative app to be developed by the local developer community. It also questions why the app requires so many permissions and a late version of the operating system.

1. Mobile Developer Group – 24 th January 2011 The “Sheffield” mobile Application Flying the flag for sheffield or a massively lost opportunity? A GIST Open Conversation This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

2. Hot on the heels of this (Natty short URL) announcment Http://www.creativesheffield.co.uk/MarketingSheffield/News/City+launches+Mobile+Application.htm The GIST foundation would like to ask the mobile developer community about..........

3. The sheffield app

4. Is anyone in the room (in)directly involved with the production of this app?

5. What do you like about this app?

6. What do you not like about this app?

7. Should it have been something other than brochure-ware? Or Should it have been called something else? Or Do apps make good brochures?

8. Does anyone know how much it cost?

9. Is there any opportunity (Hot on the heels of CMA Player dev) to provide an alternative... A dynamically growing platform continually developed by the grass-roots dev community?

10. Any technical issues? Why the hell does it need all those permissions anyway? Why the hell does it need such a late version of the OS?