PreDevCamp is Today! (Oh, and the Palm App Catalog has had 2.5 Million Downloads!)

PreDevCamp is today!  Above, check out the welcome video from none-other than Palm's own Mitch Allen, CTO of Palm and author of the just-completed webOS development book.  It's not too late to checkout PreDevCamp.org to find a local event in your city, but if you can't go to one, there are plenty of options to follow the excitement at home.  Your best option is to head over to PreDevCamp.org/live to see live feeds from San Francisco, Kansas City, New York, Dallas, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

We're very pleased to see involvement from Palm here - supporting developers is absolutely the best way to grow a fledgling platform.  In addition to Allen's video above, Palm employees are hitting up the 'camps and Palm is also donating 30 copies of Allen's book per city.  We at PreCentral.net are pitching in with prizes ranging from Accessory Store Gift Certificates to Palm Pre phones.  Yes - those Pre prizes will be going to the developers who have created the best apps in several categories and we're hoping to see a lot of the apps begun today show up in our Homebrew App Gallery.

Yours-truly is heading to Orlando - are you going?

P.S. Hear that about 2.5 million App Catalog downloads? Us too - not bad, eh? Imagine what it will be when the Pre hits other carriers and more apps start becoming officially available?