Review GTUG Battle Hackathon

So, der Chrome Extension Hackathon ist vorbei, Zeit für ein Recap des Events.

Es war, zu mindestens nach meinem Empfinden, ein sehr entspanntes Event und ich bin Google für die Verpflegung und Evan und Jochen für ihre Vorträge sehr dankbar. Auch wenn ich selber leider nicht zum Hacken sondern nur zum Ideengeben gekommen bin, habe ich doch das große Potential erkennen können das in Chrome Extensions steckt. Vor allem das unglaublich unkomplizierte Handling, gepaart mit der Mächtigkeitvon HTML5/JavaScript, machen einfach Spass.

Generell kann ich sagen, ich hatte einfach mal nur Spass an dem Event. Vielleicht gerade weil mal tagsüber unterwegs waren und ich nicht erst spät Abends heimgekommen bin. (War ich dann ja wegen des Ignites trotzdem)

Ganz sicher ist: Der kreative Output solcher Hackathons ist um einiges größer als der traditioneller TechTalks, wobei solche natürlich auch ihre Berechtigungals Lernevents haben. Die Gespräche sind Problembezogener, Code entstehtund keiner guckt gelangweilt auf seinen Laptop.Ich bin jedenfalls sehr gespannt was die Teams im Rahmen des GTUG Battles an Extensions abliefern werden und freue mich auf die nächsten Events.

Eine erste Extension aus München haben wir schon, TickleTab, eine Wiedervolage für Tabs: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ihgobbiifoikoajcbniomconhpllibmk

Fotos vom Event findet ihr, wie üblich, in unserem Album:

http://picasaweb.google.de/uebermuedet/GoogleTechnologyUserGroup

Der Google Produkt-Kompass: Google Chrome Extensions Event & Hackathon Roadshow

Der Google Produkt-Kompass: Google Chrome Extensions Event & Hackathon Roadshow

Germany GTUG Battle Beta 2010

What is the GTUG battle beta?

The GTUG battle beta will be a series of Google Chrome events including a Google Chrome extensions hackathon combined with a competition for the best developed Google Chrome extension.

Why should your GTUG join the battle?
Because its worth it!

Participating teams must be min 2 and max 5 people. Each team must belong to one existing German GTUG. The winning GTUG group as well as the winning team will receive terrific prizes.

On top of that, maybe you will build a great extension that everyone in the whole wide world will be able to use!

Competition closes 14th March

Dates for the following events are confirmed:

• Hamburg - Tuesday, February 23, at the Google Office, ABC-Str. 19, Hamburg
• Dusseldorf - Thursday, February 25, at the Google Office - tbc
• Munich - Monday, March 1, 3pm to 8:30pm, at the Google Office, Dienerstrasse 12

• Nuremberg
• Karlsruhe & Stuttgart (Neckar/Alb) (possibly joined)
• Berlin
• Frankfurt
• Münster & Ostwestfahlen (possibly joined)

If possible Google will support you with Google speakers at the event. They will hold a Google Chrome introduction and lead the hackathon so that you get all your questions answered.

If we can't send somebody over, we will email you tutorials and other information.

Note:

You don't have to be Member of a GTUG, if you're not registered right now, search for your nearest GTUG and sign up. There will be prices for the winning team but also for the winning GTUG.

Note:

This is ONLY for German GTUGs, sorry.

Wave Hackathon Recap

So we had our first Wave Hackathon at the CDTM here in Munich last weekend.

CDTM is an Institute which is part of the TUM, the Technic University Munich.

(You can find the Website for this at http://cdtm.de)

We had around 28 people registered, 5 cancellations and 23 showing up on site,

so basically we had a zero percent of NoShow, which is really a good rate.

But ok, let's get this review started:

We started at 10:30 am with a brief free hand introduction of Wave, Embed API, Robots

and Gadgets. It was free hand because i totally had lost track of time the last weeks

due to my Job Termination. But i think i did quite a good job anyway and some of the

more expirienced Developers in the audience helped me out.

Then we went on to the Brainstorming, where everyone told the crowd about their idea

for a Gadget or a Robot and then after that, they teamed up to Groups so we could start

the Hacking. This was the time when i left with some friends to get some supplies.

When we returned with our approx. 20 Liters of Coke and several Packages of Chips & Gummi Bears

the Rest of the Crowd was allready hacking hard at their choosen Projects.

I left at 4 pm to get back to my family but as i heard, some of the guys hacked until 9pm.

The next day we only had seven Developers, which made Pizzaordering a bit easier, but we created a Pricecalculator for it anyway. So we nerded our way trough some Bugfixing and Programming and then everyone presented their projects.

We have Dokuwave, a Bot that synchronyzes a Wave to a Dokuwiki Instance http://github.com/evilhackerdude/dokuwave

Bloodwine, a PollGadget http://code.google.com/p/bloodwine

ToDo Robot/Gadget http://code.google.com/p/todo-robot/

So it's over now and next we will have an Android Hackathon and a more general Hackathon on a regular Basis.

A big Thank you to our Sponsors, the Interface AG for Food and Beverages, O'Reilly and OpenSourcePress for the Books and of Course the CDTM for hosting the Hackathon.

And a VERY special Thank you to Pamela Fox who helped us out with seven Wave Sandbox Invites at 10 o'Clock in the EVENING at Sydney Timezone on the Weekend. And who answered some additional Questions on Sunday then. Thank you Pam.

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