By Peter Lubbers, Program Manager, Google Chrome Developer
Relations
Calling designers, web developers, and the creatively curious! Next
week marks the launch of Google Developers Live Presents, a new series of exclusive programming from GDL.
Presents kicks off this
month with Design Ignites the Web, a
family of episodes that takes you on a journey from back-end to front-end, showing you how to
create compelling projects in the browser. The series will feature exclusive interviews with
the developers behind select Chrome Experiments, Chrome WebLab,
Movi.Kanti.Revo,
and DevArt. UPDATED Oct. 4: new dates and links for
some events (see below).
So, what’s coming
up? Make Web Magic: The Minds Behind the Most Popular Chrome
Experiments | Tuesday, October 9 - Part 1, 1:00
PM PDT | 20:00 UTC[Event page] | Part II, 2:00 PM PDT | 21:00
UTC[Event page] |
Part III, 3:00 PM
PDT | 22:00 UTC [Event page] Using the latest open web technologies, the developers
creating some of the most inspired Chrome Experiments showcase their latest web experiments
and discuss how they are making the web faster, more fun, and open in this 3-episode
hangout. Host: Paul
Irish, Developer Advocate,
Chrome Guests: Hakim: Google+,
Website | Michael Deal: Google+, Website |
Mark Danks: Google+, Website
All the Web’s a Stage: Building a 3D Space in the Browser
| Thursday, October 11
- 10:30 AM PDT | 17:30 UTC[Event page] Meet the designers and creative team
behind a new sensory Chrome experiment, Movi.Kanti.Revo, in a live, design-focused Q&A. Learn how Cirque du Soleil and
Subatomic Systems worked to translate the wonder of Cirque into an environment built entirely
with markup and CSS. Host: Pete
LePage, Developer Advocate Guests: Gillian Ferrabee,
Creative Director,
Images & Special Projects, Cirque du Soleil | Nicole McDonald,
Director/Creative
Director, Subatomic Systems
Van Gogh Meets
Alan Turing: The Browser Becomes a Canvas with DevArt
| UPDATED DATE AND LINK: Friday, October 19 - 10:00 AM PDT | 17:00 UTC
[Event page] How can art and
daily life be joined together? Host Ido Green chats with creators Uri Shaked and Tom Teman
about tackling this question with their “Music Room” – a case study in the power of Android –
and with Emmanuel Witzthum on his project “Dissolving Realities,” which aims to connect the
virtual environment of the Internet using Google Street View. Host: Ido
Green, Developer Advocate Guests: Uri Shaked, Tom Teman, and
Emmanuel
Witzthum Push the Limits:
Building Extraordinary Experiences with Chrome | UPDATED DATE AND LINK: Week of October 29[Event page]
The
experiments in Chrome Web Lab are pushing the limits of what developers can build in a browser. Explore the
design and technical mastery that went into making extraordinary experiences, directly from
the experiments’ home, the London Science Museum. Hosts: Pete
LePage, Developer Advocate | Paul
Kinlan, Developer Advocate Guests: Tellart
& B-Reel
representatives for Universal Orchestra, Sketchbot, Teleporter, LabTag,
DataTracer
If you can’t make the live show, you’ll still be able to see
recordings of these and past sessions on our YouTube channel.
For more information on our monthly schedule, add +Google Developers to your circles and follow @googledevs on
Twitter.
Peter
Lubbers works on the Chrome Developer Relations Team, spreading HTML5 and Open Web
goodness. A native of the Netherlands, Peter served as a Special Forces commando in the Royal
Dutch Green Berets.
