It's GDG DevFest season once again! GDG DevFest is a community-organized event that provides the opportunity for developers to learn about Google technologies and other developer products.
GDG Philippines is organizing GDG DevFest Philippines 2015 on September 28-29, 2015 (Update: This has been moved to October 16-17). This year's event will be composed of two days: Android and VR for Day 1 and Web for Day 2. There will be hands-on sessions especially on new technologies like Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Polymer, Material Design, and more.
This event is free but slots are limited. Visit the events website at http://devfest.gdgph.org to register and check other details. Add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles for updates.
It's DevFest season once again! DevFests are community-organized events that provide an opportunity for developers to learn about Google technologies and developer products.
We at GDG Philippines organized GDG DevFest Philippines 2014 last October 24. It was held at Henry Sy. Sr. Hall at De La Salle University, Manila. This year, GDG DevFest Philippines was bigger and we had some new features, especially the Code Labs and the Sandbox.
Sandbox
We had booths for GDG Philippines and our sponsors. In the GDG Philippines booths, we demonstrated and asked the participants to try the Android Wear smart watches (LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live, and Moto 360), Cardboard, Chromecast. Most of the time, I was here.
We had two tracks for the talks. The one in the plenary included Material Design, Game Design, Designing for Mobile, and Ingress. The other track included Google Analytics, Google Compute Engine, and Android. There was supposed to be another track but the other speakers are not available.
Google for Entrepreneurs Week
This year's Google for Entrepreneurs (GFE) Week event in Manila was also held during GDG DevFest Philippines 2014. GFE Week is an annual, global celebration of innovators and entrepreneurs. There was a panel of experts and entrepreneurs who will talked about different Google tools for supporting businesses, followed by a Q&A, and networking session. It was held during the afternoon.
The Aftermath
We had more than 472 attendees for GDG DevFest Philippines. This was the highest number of attendees so far for a GDG DevFest Philippines event. There were more than 25% female attendees this year too.
Photos, slides, and more details about the event can be found in the Events Website and in the Google+ Events Page. Thanks again to our speakers, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees!
All of us, except Mama Chelle who went to KK earlier, arrived in Kota Kinabalu International Airport around one in the morning. +Lorna picked us up in the airport and brought us to King Park Hotel where we stayed for the night.
We wake up early in the morning and had breakfast in King Park Cafe. The venue for the DevFest, Wisma Bandaraya, is just two blocks away (around five minutes walk) from the hotel. We met some of the organizers there. I found out about the Ingress Sabah. They have a great cross-faction relationships there. I also got updates about the Shard in KK.
The event started with a speech from the Sabah State Minister of Resource & IT Development and the keynote by Sebastian. Mitch is the first from us to talk. Her topic is about Mobile Trends. After her talk, Mitch, Svet, Loretta and I walked to the nearby mall (Centre Point Sabah) to exchange our money to Ringgit. I also need to buy an adapter and a local sim for mobile data. I bought a Digi sim and loaded some credits to it. The cost for the unli data was a bit expensive than in the Philippines but I think it was worth it.
We went back and Celine's talk about Google Apps for Education is already finished. I sat inside for +Marc Tan's Google ADK/Arduino talk. It was the last talk before lunch. In the afternoon, there were two breakout sessions: App Engine on PHP (by Lorna) and Chrome Extensions. I discussed the basics of Chrome Apps and Extensions development. Below is the presentation I used in my talk.
After that, +Loretta talked about HTML5 Game Development. Lorna then had the closing speech after a few short talks about GSA and Ingress Sabah. Over-all, the event and the food were great!
Mama Chelle, Wayne, Mitch, Svet, Marcus, Loretta, Marc, Celine and I had dinner at Welcome Seafood Restaurant. We enjoyed the different seafood dishes. Because some of us needed to buy shorts and slippers and other things, we went to Centre Point Sabah. We then went to Pasar Malam Sinsuran to buy keychains and other stuff. Afterwards, we had cakes at Secret Recipe before going back to the hotel to rest.
It was a whole-day workshop. Wayne was in charge of the MapUp and I handled the Android Code Lab. In the morning, I taught the basics of Android and Android Studio. Here is the slides I used during the Code Lab:
After lunch, I had a quick talk about the different kinds of views they can use and how to move from one page to another. We tasked them do to anything that they can finish in less than two hours. I roamed around and helped the participants with their questions. After the coding, they were asked to demonstrate their apps and we gave special swags to the apps who found to be promising. I encouraged them to continue developing their apps and to publish it to Google Play later on.
GDG Philippines organized GDG Devfest Women Philippines last March 9, 2013 at Globe Corporate Showroom, Valero Telepark. DevFestW is a community-led event that has technical and non-technical sessions centered around Google developer technologies and platforms. DevFestW is focused specifically on bringing together women in the local developer community to teach, learn, code and network.
Another year has passed. It was one of the busiest year I had but it was good because I also accomplished a lot. Here is the list of some of the things I did during the twelve months of 2012.
January
Not much happen during the start of the year except on January 9 when I got my NBI Clearance. I attended the Philippine Android Community meetup for the first time on January 21. On the last day of the year, the GTUG Philippines (now GDG Philippines) show-and-tell meetup for 2012 was held at the O&B office. I presented the Pinoy Jokes Android App which I just published to Android Market (now Google Play) the day before. I continued working on the app and it also reached the following accomplishments: Top Free Apps #15, Top Free Applications #7, Top New Free #5 and Top Free Entertainment #2.
February
On February 6, I attend Mobile Monday Manila (MoMoManila) for the first time. Unfortunately, this was also the only time I was able to attend a MoMoManila meet up in 2012. Celine, her best friend Deci, her college block mates and I went to Gandiva Archery for a few hours of Archery lesson. On February 11, we also went to the 17th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta and Zoobic Safari. GDG Philippnes also had the Global Android Dev Camp, a global Android development hackathon, from February 17-19.
March
On the first day of the year, we were invited by the College of Computer Science of University of Makati to be the judge in the Android competition in IT Olympics 2012. It was my first time to judge in a contest. After judging the apps and having lunch, I was also invited to join the Board of Arbiters in the IT Quiz Bee. On March 3, we watched the Pyromusical competition with China and Netherlands at SM Mall of Asia. I also had my first 10k run for the year (Run United 1) on March 4. We also attended the Google Map Maker Manila Workshop at Asian Institute of Management Conference Center last March 17.
April
April is one of the busiest month of 2012 for me. We had the Pre-Startup Weekend Manila Bootcamp on 14. Then we went to GenSan for the Mindanao leg of the Map Maker Summit. It was my first time to ride a plane and first time to be outside Luzon! From April 27 to 29 was the Second Startup Weekend Manila. Celine and I also walked at the Hyundai Fun Run on April 29. Despite being busy, I was able to develop the web app, Chrome Web Store app and the Android app of Sweldong Pinoy (then named Filipino Salary Calculator)
May
May was when I started to work at Stratpoint as an Android apps developer. I've been busy with work this month. On May 5, we also went to Cebu to help out with the first Pre-Startup Weekend Bootcamp.
June
June was another busy month at work. On June 17, I had my second 10k run in Run United 2. GDG Philippines also had the I/O Extended viewing party and it was held at Payroll Hero's Dojo.
July
On July, we had the Google Apps Challenge Meetup/Hackathon in Manila (July 6-7). We also went to Bacolod for the Google Apps Challenge Meetup (21-22). The slides I used in my talk about Google Drive even got featured on Slideshare on July 13!
Celine and I also went to Singapore from July 27-30. It was my first trip outside the Philippines and we went to the Harry Potter Exhibition. We also visited the Google office, Merlion Park, Sentosa and Universal Studios.
August
We started August with the GDG DevFest Philippines. We also went to Davao for the Google Apps Challenge Meetup. We had our first (complete) family dinner outside home with the girlfriends of my brothers this month.
September
On September we attended (and volunteered) for the Globe Labs Developer Day on September 15. The day after, I had my first run in the rain at the Run United 3 in SM Mall of Asia (again). At the end of the month, I volunteered at the next Startup Weekend Manila (28-30).
October
On October 6, we were invited to La Consolacion College Manila and I gave a talk about WHy you should go into Android apps development. Celine presented our Moochfood app in the first GDG Geek Girls Manila meetup. We also went to Mind Museum and Fully Booked in Bonifacio High Street. Globe Labs Developer Relations Manager Anne Michelle Santos and I was invited by ANC Alerts for an interview about the upcoming DevFests in Bacolod and Cebu.
November
On November we went to Bacolod (November 5) and Cebu (November 7) for the GDG DevFest Bacolod and GDG DevFest Cebu. I talked about Location-Based Services on Android at DevFest Bacolod and my talk at DevFest Cebu was about Google+ and introduction to Google+ Platform. On November 9, we went to Smart DevNet's Appy Birthday Android, which is a simple party to celebrate Android's fifth birthday. Michelle Orosa-Ople of TV5 invited Celine and I for an interview in their radio program Oplan Asenso last November 10. After the radio program, Michelle also interviewed us for TV5 News. This was aired on TV5's Pilipinas News and Aksyon TV's Andar ng mga Balita last November 14, 2012. Before the end of the month, I also published the Pinoy Jokes Chrome Extension in the Google Chrome Web Store. We also joined the Philippine Android Community's Christmas picnic and Kickstart's start-up mixer Christmas Party
December
We started December with the Sanitation Hackathon, in cooperation with GDG Philippines, GBG Philippines, World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program and Blogwatch. Sanitation Hackathon is a social good hackathon that aims to develop open technology for sanitation challenges. We attended a lot of Christmas Parties this month: Globe Labs Thank You Partee, Mashable TweetMas Tweetup, Ideaspace's Faces of Change, and GDG Philippines Christmas Geekup Party. We also were also invited in PUP Google Fest and I talked about the basics of Android and Android apps development. And we also went to India for the GDG India Summit in Hyderabad, India.
A lot has indeed happen last 2012! I am looking forward to all the possibilities that 2013 will offer. I'll continue to post on this blog the things that will happen soon.
Two days after the successful GDG DevFest Bacolod, GDG Cebu hosted the first GDG DevFest Cebu at Quest Hotel & Conference Center. GDG DevFest Cebu 2012 is also the first DevFest organized in Cebu. I was invited to talk about Google+ and the Google+ Platform. Here is the slides I used in my presentation:
Last October 31, GDG Philippines and Globe Labs representatives were invited by ANC Alerts for an interview about the upcoming DevFests in Bacolod and Cebu. GlobeLabs is a sponsor of both events. Globe Labs Developer Relations Manager Anne Michelle Santos and I went to the interview because I was the only community manager of GDG Philippines who is available that time.
Here is the video of our interview. The name in the display is wrong though:
It was my first time to be interviewed and it was on a live show. I was so nervous!
Before, DevFests were organized by Google but now they are community-organized. There were speakers from Google, as well as local speakers too. Before the end of the event, some participated in the show-and-tell of their apps.
Next month, GDG (Google Developer Group) Philippines, will be hosting the first GDG DevFest. DevFests are now community-organized but will still be a great and free developer event where you can learn a lot about Google technologies and more. There will be speakers from Google and some Pinoy developers this year. GDG Devfest will be on August 4, 2012 at AIM Conference Center. To sign-up, visit the official blog at http://gdgdevfestph.blogspot.com/.
Meanwhile, the first annual g|Philippines in Manila will be on August 3 and 4, 2012. Day 1 will be for Business, Marketing, and Entrepreneur and the second is University Day. The venue will also be at AIM Conference Center. For details, check the site at https://sites.google.com/site/gphilippines2012.
I will be attending Google DevFest 2010 Manila on July 6, 2010. It will be held at UP-Ayala Technohub from eight thirty in the morning to six in the evening.
Google D3vF3st is a free developer event where you can learn a lot about Google technologies and others more. The last time there was a DevFest in the Philippines two years ago. This year, I can now attend one. The topics this year are Chrome/HTML5, App Engine, Social APIs and Maps API and the speakers are Jeremy Orlow, Daniels Lee, Patrick Chanezon, Timothy Jordan and Bob Aman.
