There are a lot of people with good ideas for iPhone apps, but who aren’t yet familiar enough with iPhone programming to develop them. So we’ve decided to run a competition to give away a free place at the next App School (starts on Monday) to someone with a really good idea. (Standard cost: €1500.)

App School is an intensive, hands-on, week-long course. During it, we’ll teach you the essentials of iPhone programming, and get you started on your app. If you decide to charge for it, you’ll get to keep all the revenues. Basically, there are no strings attached.

To enter, you just have to describe an iPhone app you’d like to develop. You can do so by leaving a comment on the blog here or send a tweet with the hashtag #iphoneappschool. If you’d rather keep your idea private, you can enter via DM on Twitter or email kim@appschool.ie. And if you do decide to keep the idea private, we won’t reveal it until you launch your app.

Ideas should be anywhere up to 300 words in length. You don’t need to describe everything; just enough to convince us that it’d be cool to build.

To enter, you have to be able to attend App School in Dublin next week. Other than that, there are no restrictions.

We’ll pick the winner at midnight (Irish time) on Friday, and (if it’s public) announce the idea on the blog. We might also highlight some of the other interesting (public) ideas we receive.

If you want to see what some previous attendees thought of App School, have a read of the blog posts from Cathal Garvey and John Long.

Questions? Let us know in the comments.