• Meeting: Silicon Valley GTUG
• Date: December 3, 2008
• Cost: Always FREE!
• Topic: Lightning Student Demos
• Speakers: Bay Area College Students

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.

We are trying something completely different this month. We are inviting college students to come and give Lightning Demos of their current projects using Google Technology. Also, our meeting this month is being co-hosted by the Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Group A.K.A. the WebMapSocial Meetup.

A Lightning Talk or Demo is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers. Each short talk will hava a 5 minute limit. In order to allow rapid changes between speakers, talks and demos that can be done using just a web browser will be given first priority. This minimizes the dead time during laptop swaps at the podium. Talks that require a separate laptop will go last.

• 6:00-6:30pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google
  
• 6:30-6:50pm Google Technology Demos by our Professional Members
  
• 6:50-7:00pm General Announcements
  
• 7:00-8:30pm Google Technology Demos by our Student Members
  
• 8:30-9:00pm Further networking before heading home

During the networking hour, we invite our Professional Members that develop applications using Google Technology to do brief demos of 5 minutes or less. After these demos, there will be some general group announcements followed by more Lightning Talks and Demos by local college students. Please contact Van Riper to indicate your interest to get on the demo schedule as a professional or student member. Time permitting, we will include as many demos as possible in the evening.

Google, Inc. (GooglePlex Map)
Tunis Conference Room, Bldg. 43
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Please enter from the north side of the building, in the middle of the Google campus. Also, parking will be much easier to find in the lots south of Bldg. 44 across the street from the main complex.

We would like to thank Google for providing the venue and the refreshments for this meeting. In particular, we would like to thank Stephanie Liu for serving as our primary meeting support contact at Google.