GDG Philippines in 2015

This year has been another busy year for GDG Philippines. We've had a lot of events and some of them are firsts of its kind.

Study Jams

For the first time, we organized a seven-week Android Fundamentals Study Jams on February-March 2015. This was part of the Google Developers Study Jams, free series of global, community-run, in-person study groups. The first jam session was presented in partnership with Udacity and will follow their Android Fundamentals curriculum.

Women Techmakers: Manila 2015

Our Women Techmakers Manila event this year was composed of 100% women speakers and around 80% women participants. We had more workshops this year (Python, Data Visualization, Hour of Code, Google Sites, and more).

Google I/O 2015 Extended Roadshow

Aside from the usual I/O Extended Viewing Party, this year, we brought the Google I/O experience to different cities. The Google I/O Extended Roadshow is a series of workshops and talks centered around the technologies announced during Google I/O 2015. We went to Pampanga (July 4), Manila (July 11), Batangas (July 18), Albay (July 25), Camarines Sur (July 26), and Cavite (August 1).

GDG DevFest Philippines 2015

GDG DevFest Philippines was composed of two days (for the first time) of hands-on workshops. Day 1 was focused on Android & VR (Android M, Firebase, Material Design, Cardboard) while Day 2 was focused on Web (Poymer, Firebase, Material Design, Gemma Kit, and more).

Android Masters

Android Masters is a collegiate inter-school Android app development challenge open to all universities and colleges across the Philippines. The main objective of the program is to encourage students to develop their creative app ideas and publish it to Google Play Store.

This is the first time we organized Android Masters. There were 72 entries in the Utility/Productivity and Games categories.

GDG HackFair Philippines 2015

GDG Philippines organized the first GDG HackFair in the Philippines this year. GDG HackFair Philippines 2015 is an interactive two-day event where App/Website/IoT projects were created using Google Technologies are given the opportunity to showcase their projects. Thirty teams were selected as exhibitors in the HackFair held on December 19-20.

In preparation for HackFair, we had a GDG Philippines HackTime on December 5. We had talks and workshops about Design, Arduino & Gemma Kit, Android Wear, Firebase, and Polymer.

Other Events

• Google Cardboard Hackathon and Google Cardboard 101
• Polymer Polytechnic Philippines
• Android Dev Summit Extended
• Android Marshmallow Workshop
• Beginner Android Game Development Workshop
• AngularJS Code Camp
• GDG Campus Roadshow: Philippine Christian University
• GDG Campus Roadshow: St. Paul University Quezon City
• GDG Campus Roadshow: UST

2016 Plans

Next year, we will be conducting Study Jams, Women Techmakers: Manila, Google I/O 2016 Extended (hopefully with another roadshow), GDG DevFest Philippines 2016, GDG HackFair/HackTime, and more talks and hands-on workshops on Android (and Android N!), Android Wear, Polymer, Firebase, Google Cloud, Material Design, and other Google technologies. For updates on our events, add us in your Google+ circles or check our website at http://gdgph.org.

GDG Philippines in 2014

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.

GDG Philippines in 2013

2013 has been another busy year for us here in GDG Philippines. Last year, we've had:

1 GDG DevFest, 1 GDG DevFestW, 1 Women Workshop
1 Google I/O Extended
1 The Internship Geek Out
1 Anniversary Geekup
4 GCDC Workshops
2 Pre-Startup Weekend Bootcamps
1 Philippine Transit App Challenge Bootcamp
2 Code Labs
4 MapUps
1 Hackathon
2 Awarding
3 school seminar/workshops, and
More than 3 meetups, and
More than 2 events where we gave talks.

And, as early as November and December, we already have planned some events for the first quarter of 2014. If you're a student and you're interested in a Student Developers Day, fill up and share form at http://studentdevday.gdgph.org/. We're also planning to have GDG DevFest, GDG DevFestW, more Code Labs and workshops and more meetups.

For updates on our next events, add GDG Philippines Google+ Page in your Google+ circles.

GDG Philippines in 2012

The year 2012 is about to end and it's time again for our yearend blog post. This year has been one of the busiest year for us. We've had a lot of events and a lot of changes. Below is a slide summarizing our activities for 2012:

GDG Philippines in 2012

Plans for 2013

We're hoping 2013 will be another great year for GDG Philippines. As of now, we're planning on different events for the first quarter: a not-your-typical hackathon on February and a major event on March. For the rest of the year, we're planning at least 1 hackathon, hopefully another GDG DevFest event, and regular meetups and talks.

Thank you for joining and supporting GDG Philippines. See you again next year!

GTUG Philippines in 2011

It's almost the end of 2011! This year has been another great year for GTUG Philippines. Here is our year-end report.

Highlights:

• Official domain name, www.gtugphilippines.org
• Our official Google Chrome Extension and Android App
• New subchapters (GTUG Philippines Singapore, Bacolod GTUG)
• Summer of MapUps (mapping parties) for the Philippine Red Cross and the community

Here are our events and meetups for the year:

• Show-and-tell meetup (January 26) at the Orange & Bronze office
• Google Adsense and Doubleclick for Publishers Meet-up (March 22) at CodeFlux office [Photos]
• Google I/O Extended 2011 Manila (May 10) at UP Department of Computer Science [Photos]
• Mapping Party (May 21) at Redfox Innovative Technologies Center [Photos]
• HTML5 and Chrome Extensions meetup (July 20) at CodeFlux office [Photos]
• Google DevFest 2011 Manila (September 19) at Asian Institute of Management Conference Center [Photos]
• Google Analytics Meetup (October 11) at Smart Jump Experience Center, MegaMall [Photos]
• GTUG Philippines Christmas Party (December 4) at RedBox Greenbelt 3 [Photos]

Thanks to everyone who attended our events, and those who sponsored the food/ venues. We hope you continue to support us next year. If you have suggestions/recommendations or if you want to sponsor food/venue, contact the group managers or just send an e-mail in the mailing list. See you all again on January!

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