This past weekend marked the beginning of the DevFest season with 10 local
events reaching developers in 6 different countries. Local Google Developer
Groups spearheaded these community-organized
events, offering technical sessions, hackathons, and code labs across various Google product
areas. There was too much excitement and feedback to fit into a post without making it
enormous, so we’ve chosen some highlights from both organizers and participants.
DevFest Lille |
Host: GDG Lille “Merci à tous les organisateurs, c'était très intéressant :)”
--Rémi Bruyère,DevFest Lille
attendee
DevFest London
| Host: GDG London With over 100 developers in attendance
and 10 hackathon entries submitted, DevFest London was a success! We had nine
Googlers giving back-to-back developer talks for the day, on everything from Android to Chrome
to Google+, with some Drive and Google TV for good measure. The biggest highlight was our
mid-afternoon keynote from Michael Mahemoff with his ten moments that changed the web - from
Netscape to Chrome and a special mention of Nyan Cat. -- Mark Lunney, GDG London Lead
Organizer “+Michael
Mahemoff 's talk on top 10
moments that changed the web is awesome - it boosts morale for our commitment to HTML5 and
JavaScript … The Nyan cat at the end rocks.” -- Shah Auckburaully, London DevFest attendee
DevFest NIT Trichy | Host: GDG NIT Trichy We had an amazing DevFest here at NIT
Trichy yesterday! I feel proud to say that DevFest Trichy was a success and the turnout was
wonderful. The talks by Shannon
Behrens and
Ido Green were really good and our developer
community did find it informative. Abhishek Shrivastava's interactive session on developing
hacks and apps using Google Chrome APIs was a hit especially the
"How-to-develop-a-Chrome-app-in-30-secs!". GDG NIT Trichy looks forward to more such
events in future. :) -- Jeh Agarwal, GDG NIT Trichy DevFest lead
organizer
DevFest Shanghai | Host: GDG Shanghai With 350 developers in attendance and
sessions covering everything from Android and Chrome development, to Golang and HTML5, DevFest
Shanghai was a hit. Check out photos from the event -- Sting Chen, GDG Shanghai organizer
DevFest Gandhinagar | Host: GDG Gandhinagar The major part of the event was based on
Android Game Development and Open Mobile Platform. Dart session by Shannon
Behrens was
a big hit with the participants. Relive the Devfest experience with
GDG Gandhinagar’s event photos. --
Deep Moteria, GDG Gandhinagar
organizer
DevFest BITS Pilani | Host: GDG BITS-Pilani Attendees at DevFest BITS Pilani were
excited to engage with Google’s technologies. The entire GDG BITS Pilani team would like to
thank Google and GDG for making our DevFest possible. This was a novel event for our attendees
and we look forward to the return of an even bigger and better DevFest in the future!
-- Akash Saxena, GDG BITS-Pilani DevFest lead organizer
DevFest Manipal | Host: GDG
Manipal Crazy Day One! Close to 350 people turned up for it. +Soham Mondal was the main Speaker.
Day two had full day speaker sessions including one by Ido Green and final day saw hackathon
attended by 80 developers. Overall a fun developer event. - Nikhil Gupta, GDG Manipal organizer
DevFest season kicked off on September 21st and continues
through November 11th. Join your local developer community at an upcoming DevFest
and discover the magic for yourself. Visit devfest.infofor more details and location
updates.
Phoebe Peronto is an Associate Product Marketing Manager on the Developer Marketing
team here at Google. She’s a foodie who has a penchant for traveling, politics, and running.
Oh, and of course...Go Cal Bears!
By Phoebe Peronto,
Developer Marketing
