Berlin GTUG meets on 13th. of February, 7pm @ IS24 Scoutlounge

Topics: Zukunftsinstitut & Cross Platform Development

After several great GTUG events last year, we want to start 2012 with another highly interesting meeting. Topics will be:

- The Berlin "Zukunftsinsitut" / "Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft" that was newly founded by Google. Ahmet Emre Açar from www.internetundgesellschaft.de will inform us about the institute and we will have a chance for disussion, too.

- IS24, KaufDa, Komoot (alphabetical order) all have a multi-platform mobile strategy and will give presentations on how they manage the cross-platform development process.

Please register for this event at meetup. Your registration helps organizing Berlin GTUG events better.

Doors open at 6:30pm, presentations start at 7pm.
Stay tuned for more detailed information on the talks.

Next Berlin GTUG meeting on Monday September 12th, 2011 evening starting at 18:30 at Club-Office

The next meeting of the Berlin GTUG will take place on September 12th, starting at 18:30, in the cafeteria of Club-Office, a very nice co-working and office space, located Bundesallee 171, 10715 Berlin.

Please, sign up on our new meetup event registration page as soon as possible to assist us with the organization.

Our main topics for this event will be Google Closure and the Play framework on Google App Engine.

Filip M. Noetzel, a rockstar freelancer from Berlin will walk us through Google Closure. Google Closure Tools is a set of building blocks open sourced by Google in November 2009 used to build products like Gmail, Maps, Docs, Sites, Books, Reader, Calendar, etc. — It consists of Closure Compiler (a JS-to-JS compiler aimed to make your JavaScript smaller, faster and more robust), Closure Library (a rather comprehensive JavaScript library designed for building large applications), Closure Templates (a Client-and-Server templating solution) and a few other tools built around this ecosystem. The talk will provide an overview on these tools, a little background on why things are designed the way they are, differences to other solutions and why you might want to choose Closure for your next web project.

Our second topic will be presented by Raphael Andre Bauer, a regular attendee and presenter at our GTUG, and an awesome local entrepreneur. He will enlight us on using the Play Framework with Google App Engine and GWT.

In addition to these 2 columns, we will have our usual Google Tech Roundup, some status on the Google Developer Day in Berlin, and a fun raffle of awesome swags.

See you at Club-Office!

Informal Berlin GTUG Meeting on 31st of August, 18:30

Berlin GTUG we will have a short informal meeting @ c-base, Rungestrasse 20, from 18:30 to 19:30 on 31st of August Berlin. Schedule is: meeting and organizing.

The next formal Berlin GTUG meeting will take place in September & the Schedule will be announced soon. Stay tuned, we'll have several really interesting presentations.

Summer get-together tomorrow, Wednesday 29th, 20:00 at c-base

Summer is really here now, so lets get together and celebrate a few things. We will not have a formal event, no presentation, no slide, no agenda. Just a get together at c-base just before the monthly Android meetup.

Things to discussed will obviously be the just announced Google+:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html

And even more exciting is the upcoming Google Developer Day:

http://www.google.com/events/developerday/

See you all tomorrow, Wednesday June 29th, 20:00 (8pm) at c-base for a beer or 2.

Next Berlin GTUG meeting on Sunday May 29th, 2011 afternoon at c-base

Our next Berlin GTUG meeting will take place at c-base, Rungestr. 20, 10179 Berlin, on Sunday May 29th, 2011 afternoon at 15h (3pm).

Our formal presentations will start at 15h with the following agenda:

• New Features in Google Maps - Google Fusion Tables, Google Places API and the future of mobile mapping by Mano Marks, Senior Developer Advocate at Google
• Android security flaws and solutions discussion, by Guido Stepken
• Presentations about some highlights of Google I/O 2011
• Chromebooks by Stefan Z
• AppEngine 2.0 by Jerome M
• IO announcement round-up by Stefan H
• Lightning-Talks (3-5 min.), if you'd like to volunteer
• Swag raffle, socializing, bbq and more

Mano will be around for any Geo, Maps, Earth, GIS, etc. questions you might have.

We are looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.

In order to help the logistic, please fill our 3-click-form here as soon as possible.

Looking back at Google I/O Extended 2011 Berlin

As announced earlier, the Google I/O Extended 2011 Berlin took place on 10th & 11th of May 2011 at the c-base Berlin, a well known hackspace.

On these two nights people gathered to hear what Google has been cooking up the last few month.

After listening to the keynotes people could choose between the two tracks we streamed simultanously, namely Android or Chrome, which were the main topics at this years Google I/O.

Thanks to Google great support we were not only able to provide two rooms with beamers but also a great barbecue, some free drinks and snacks. We also held a raffle on each night to give out some sweet stuff Google has provided us with.

For the analytics guys out there, the event in numbers:

• 2 simultaneous streams
• 17 hours of streaming
• up to 70 attendees per day
• 70 Bratwursts + 10 soy sausages
• 30 kg of meat
• 10kg of potato salad
• 5kg of noodle salad
• 10 turkish flad breads
• 10 baguettes
• 2 liters of ketchup
• 5kg of salty snacks
• 100 free drinks
• more than 50 winners at the raffles

Here are some impressions of the event:

If you were there, we thank you for your attendence and making this event a real blast. If you weren't there we are just sorry you missed it. But maybe we can meet at our next meeting instead which will be announced soon.

Google IO Extended in Berlin May 10th an 11th evening

Join us for the Berlin GTUG Google I/O Extended events on May 10th and 11th, 2011.

For those of us who can not attend Google I/O in person in San Francisco, this is the way to still watch the keynotes announcing exciting new Google technology or updates, connect with other talented developers. Part viewing party and part community building, Google I/O Extended in Berlin is a free events focused on live-streaming parts of Google I/O.

Please register here such as we have an approximate head count for planning.

See you there.