Showing posts with label devfests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label devfests. Show all posts

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Fall 2011 App Engine events

Buenos días desde Buenos Aires!! Wow, we are just blazing through the summer! We had an exciting Google I/O in May where we saw the launch of the Go runtime, introduction of the Backends feature, and confirmed Google's commitment to the platform with our plans to leave preview mode, not to mention the five releases since that time. We then hit the road this summer with team members appearing around the globe, including mega events like the Cloud Computing Expo, EuroPython, and OSCON.

At Google I/O, many App Engine team members gave in-depth technical sessions. Alfred Fuller, an App Engine Datastore engineer, revealed how the High Replication datastore gives greater reliability and availability for users. Michael Handler, one of App Engine’s talented Site Reliability Engineers, discussed how App Engine works in production. At OSCON, the largest open source event in the world, yours truly gave a three-hour App Engine overview and workshop to help new users get up to speed, and earlier in the year at PyCon, described how Python users can avoid “vendor lock-in” via the Django-nonrel project by porting their applications from webapp to Django, allowing them to move on to or off of App Engine as they please with only minor configuration changes. We participate in events like these because we like to communicate with users to find out what they like & don’t like about the platform, and we often take their suggestions to heart!

This fall we have a full schedule, appearing at many developer events worldwide, including Google Developer Days and Google DevFests. At the Google events, we'll recap App Engine and those announcements we made at I/O, and you’ll learn how to build exciting applications using App Engine and other Google cloud technologies as well as how to build games in the cloud. Here are the dates, events, and locations that we will be visiting:

Fall 2011
Sep 19-20 - Google Developer Day Argentina - Buenos Aires - Wesley Chun, Chris Schalk
Sep 19-23 - Strata - New York - Chris Schalk
Sep 23-24 - PyCon Argentina - Junín - Wesley Chun
Sep 26-30 - Congresso Brasileiro de Software - São Paulo - Wesley Chun
Sep 29-Oct 1 - Python Brasil[7] - São Paulo - Wesley Chun
Oct 8-9 - Silicon Valley CodeCamp - Los Altos Hills - Wesley Chun
Oct 10 - Google Developer Day Russia - Moscow - Iein Valdez, Fred Sauer
Oct 18 - Google Developer Day Czech Republic - Prague - Iein Valdez, Fred Sauer
Oct 20 - Google DevFest France - Paris - Iein Valdez, Johan “Proppy“ Euphrosine
Nov 1 - Google Developer Day Japan - Tokyo - Takashi Matsuo, Johan “Proppy“ Euphrosine
Nov 8 - Google Developer Day Australia - Sydney - Chris Schalk, Johan “Proppy“ Euphrosine
Nov 12 - Google DevFest Singapore - Singapore - Chris Schalk, Wesley Chun
Nov 13 - Google Developer Day Israel - Tel-Aviv - Michael Manoochehri
Nov 16 - Google DevFest Indonesia - Jakarta - Chris Schalk, Wesley Chun
Nov 19 - Google Developer Day Germany - Berlin - Michael Manoochehri, Wesley Chun

If these aren't close enough to you, keep an eye out on this list as we'll add new events and locations as they are scheduled. A calendar with all of Google's developer events is also available. We look forward to meeting you soon!

Posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Google cloud Developer Relations team

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

App Engine team appearances Winter 2011

The Google App Engine team has launched some significant features recently, including: High Replication Datastore, Channel API, Always On, Warm Up requests, longer 10-minute (vs. 30-second) limit for tasks, and increased API call sizes. We are excited about these features and think you will be too, so team members will be appearing at a variety of events around the world this Winter to talk about some of these features and the platform as a whole!

One of the marquee events this quarter includes PyCon, the largest gathering of Python developers from around the world, where several App Engine team members will be speaking:

Winter 2011 event appearances:

  • Jan 18 - ICT Meet Ethiopia 2011 - Addis Ababa - Richard Ngamita
  • Jan 22 - Google Hackathon (Year One Labs) - Montréal - Sean Lynch
  • Feb 1-3 - Strata - Santa Clara - Patrick Chanezon
  • Feb 14-16 - Jfokus - Stockholm - Patrick Chanezon
  • Feb 17-18 - Developer Summit - Tokyo - Takashi Matsuo
  • Feb 28-Mar 4 - Game Developers Conference - San Francisco - Ikai Lan, Alfred Fuller
  • Mar 7-10 - CloudConnect - Santa Clara - Chris Schalk
  • Mar 9-17 - PyCon - Atlanta - Guido van Rossum, Wesley Chun, Ikai Lan, Brett Slatkin, Alfred Fuller
  • Mar 11-15 - SXSW - Austin - Sean Lynch, Greg D'alesandre
  • Mar 28-31 - Int'l WWW Conference - Hyderabad - Patrick Chanezon, Rajdeep Dua

If these aren't close enough to you, keep an eye out on this list as we'll add new events as they materialize. There is also a separate calendar for events featuring other Google products/APIs. For App Engine, look for posts like this throughout the year. We look forward to meeting you in 2011!

Posted by Wesley Chun, Google App Engine team

Thursday, September 30, 2010

App Engine conference appearances this Fall

It's conference season, and we're going around the world again! This fall, Google team members will be speaking about App Engine at events in more than 10 countries! In addition to the regular conference circuit, Google is also hosting Developer Days and DevFests in a variety of locations to bring not only App Engine but a bunch of Google technologies directly to you!

Fall 2010:

We look forward to meeting you at one (or more) of these events!

Posted by Wesley Chun, Google App Engine team

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Upcoming App Engine conference appearances

Fresh from our exciting news from Google I/O last quarter (launch of Google App Engine for Business and new product developments), we now look ahead to the mid-summer months. Since I/O, we've already appeared at a number of events including the Google DevFest Australia and Philippines, PyCon AU, and the Malaysia Open Source Conference, with many more coming this month. There are several well-known large conferences (and many smaller ones too) that our team members will be attending and/or speaking at, so hopefully we'll get to meet you at one of them!

In addition to the ones listed above, Google will be hosting more DevFests in Asia and South America later this year. Keep an eye out for specific dates and locations on the Google DevFest home page. There are also 5 larger global Google Developer Day events in the fall. We would love to meet with App Engine developers at a DevFest, Developer Day, or any of the other conferences above!

See you around the world!