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  • Meeting: Silicon Valley GTUG
  • Date: May 12, 2008
  • Cost: Always FREE to all!
  • Topic: Google App Engine
  • Speaker: Dick Wall
Advance RSVPs Requested

Although this is a free event, we are requesting that people register in advance and we will be limiting attendance to a maximum of 200 attendees.

Description

Unless you have been living in a cave, you must have heard about the public launch of this free web hosting service on April 7th. Dick Wall will give an introductory Google App Engine talk followed by plenty of time for questions from the audience.

Agenda
  • 6:00-6:15pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google
  • 6:15-6:45pm Google Technology Demos by our members
  • 6:50-7:00pm General Announcements
  • 7:00-8:00pm App Engine Introduction by Dick Wall

During the networking hour, we invite our members that develop applications using Google Technology to do brief demos of 5 minutes or less. Please contact Van Riper to indicate your interest to demo your stuff. Time permitting, we will include as many demos as possible before the main event. Demos of web applications already running live on Google App Engine will be given precedence for this particular meeting.

Speaker Biographies

Dick Wall is a Developer Advocate at Google. He is also the ring leader of the Java Posse and a Java Champion.

Location

Google, Inc.
Maxwell Tech Talk (Map)
1300 Crittenden Lane
Mountain View, CA 94043

Important Note: The Maxwell Tech Talk meeting location is not on the main Googleplex campus where we usually meet. However, it is only one short mile away from the main Googleplex campus. These directions tell you how to get from the Googleplex to 1300 Crittenden Lane.

giveaways
  • Google I/O Free Registration Pass which is a $400 value (3 passes)

We will be raffling off three free passes to Google I/O. The current registration fee for this two day developer event coming up on May 28-29 in San Francisco is $400. You must register in advance to be eligible to win. You must also be present that night to win.

Sponsors

We would like to thank Google for providing the venue, the refreshments, and the raffle prizes for this meeting.