As we count the last days of 2014, let us look back at the events organized by GDG Philippines for the past twelve months of the year.
GDG DevFest Philippines 2014
Held last October 24, GDG DevFest Philippines 2014 had more than 472 participants, 7 technical talks, and 8 code labs/workshops. We also set up a booth for Android Wear, Chromecast, and Google Cardboard.
Women Techmakers: Manila 2014
Women Techmakers: Manila was held on International Women's Day (March 8). Technical, non-technical and business topics were discussed by 100% women speakers. There were also Dart and Android Code Labs in the afternoon facilitated by women. One hundred eight people attended the event, and more than 80 percent of the participants are women.
Google I/O 2014 Extended Manila
During the I/O Extended event, more than 80 participants watched the keynote live (It is around twelve midnight in the Philippines). Before the keynote, there was a small program.
Dart Flight School
- University of Sto. Tomas (February 12)
- De La Salle-College of St. Benilde (March 29)
- Dart Flight School Manila (February 15)
Google Cloud Platform Days
- Google Cloud Platform Day: Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore (May 17):
- Google Cloud Platform Day: Google Compute Engine and Cloud SQL (May 24)
Workshops
- Google Maps API Workshop for Agencies (March 5)
- Workshop Wednesday: Poymer (July 30)
- Android Wear Workshop (August 2)
Meetups
- Angeles Developer Meetup (June 7)
- Post-Google I/O 2014 Meetup (July 7)
- Chromecast/Google Cast Meetup (July 23)
- Cardboard Meetup (August 27)
- Google Cloud Platform Meetup with Melina Lee, Head of Google Cloud Platform Southeast Asia (October 2)
GDG Campus Roadshows
- University of Sto. Tomas (January 24)
- Manila Central University (January 25)
- UP Los Baños (February 22)
- ICCT Colleges - Cainta (March 1)
- National University (August 9)
- DLSU Google App Engine Workshop (August 16)
- DLSU Android Workshop (August 16)
- Basics of Android @ DLSU-Dasmariñas (August 23)
- Asia Pacific College (September 27)
- UP Diliman (October 4)
- Ateneo Android Workshop (July 26)
- Ateneo Google App Engine Workshop (July 26)
Other Events
- Nueva Ecija Technologies @ Work: Student Developers Day (January 18)
- Philippine Agricultural Youth Leaders' Summit (February 8) - Applications for Agriculture in the Modern World
- UST Thesis Ideation Seminar (February 11)
- Polytechnic University of The Philippines Annual ECE Conference (February 18) - Android and Arduino talk
- ReadySaster Briefing (May 2)
- 1st Philippine Techcamp: Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building (May 5-6)
- 1st Philippine Techcamp Hackathon (May 9-10) - mentoring about Google technologies
- Readysaster Hackathon (May 10-11) - mentoring about Google technologies
- Tayuman Manila Mapup (September 25):
- ... and some others not listed
2015 Plans
Next year, we will be conducting Android Fundamentals Study Jam, Polymer Polytechnic, Women Techmakers: Manila, Google I/O 2015 Extended, GDG DevFest Philippines 2015, and meetups and workshops about Android, Android Wear, AngularJS, Go, Polymer, and other Google technologies. For updates on our next events, add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles.
