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 # React Conf 2017
 
-React native event schedule app
+The companion app for [React Conf 2017](http://conf.reactjs.org) in Santa Clara, California. Powered by [React Native](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/), and built in Sydney by [Thinkmill](https://www.thinkmill.com.au).
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+Get a live schedule, information about the talks and speakers, and easily tweet or share talks as they happen.
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+## About the App
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+We're open sourcing this early as a preview, it's been submitted to the app store and will hopefully be available in a couple of days. We'll add a link to the app here when that happens.
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+There will be design tweaks and updates as we lead up to the conference - we'll also be publishing the final Sketch files when they're ready.
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+PRs and feedback are welcome, let us know what you think!
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+And for those of you who will be attending, we hope you enjoy the app, and we'll see you there.
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+## Getting Started
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+To run the app, clone this repo then use `yarn` to install its dependencies.
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+Open the project in XCode and click "Play". You should be good to go!
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+## Credits
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+[Thinkmill](https://www.thinkmill.com.au) set aside some project time to build this app because we wanted to hack on a fresh React Native project, try some new things and we're excited about the conference.
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+The following people made it happen:
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+* [Boris Bozic](https://twitter.com/borisbozic) - Design
+* [Jed Watson](http://twitter.com/jedwatson) - Concept and Architecture
+* [Joss Mackison](https://twitter.com/jossmackison) - UI
+* [Kevin Brown](https://github.com/blargity) - Programming
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+Also thanks to [James Kyle](https://twitter.com/thejameskyle) for his review & contributions.
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+We've incorporated some cool tech including:
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+* [Code Push](http://microsoft.github.io/code-push/)
+* [Jest](https://facebook.github.io/jest/)
+* [Flow](https://flowtype.org)
+* [Prettier](https://github.com/prettier/prettier)
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+See [package.json](./package.json) for the full set of react native packages we used.
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+# License
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+MIT Licensed. Copyright (c) Thinkmill Pty Ltd 2017.