Introduction to the Dart language on 24th of May, co-organized by Berlin JS, JUG BB and Berlin GTUG

Great news! We´ll have two top Dart language specialists from the Google office in Aarhus in Denmark, the birthplace of Dart, visiting us for a joint event of Berlin JS, JUG BB and Berlin GTUG. Florian Loitsch, one of the engineers in the core Dart team, and Anders Sandholm, product manager at Google, will provide us with in depth information about the Dart language for stuctured web apps.

The two fold event on Thursday, 24th of May, will take place at co-working space AHOY!Berlin in Charlottenburg near Stuttgarter Platz.

The first part of the event offers some hands-on Dart experience (from setting up the SDK, IDE, to some “hello world!” accomplishment) and will take place from 4pm to 6pm. Please register at meetup for the first part of the event.  All participants are expected and required to bring their own laptops and power cords. AHOY!Berlin will provide WiFi and 'some' power outlets.

The second part will be a presentation about Dart with Q&A (7pm to 9pm) followed by a get together in the Ahoy Lounge where we can continue with a laid-back general discussion about Dart. Please register at meetup for the second part of the event.

Google is sponsoring this event, including coffee during the hands-on session and cold drinks to chill out after the presentation.

If you want to prepare yourself for the event have a look at

• the central source: http://www.dartlang.org/,

• Dart on G+: https://plus.google.com/109866369054280216564 and

• DartWatch on G+: https://plus.google.com/104468597016383470903

Berlin GTUG Meeting on 26th of March, 7pm.

Lets get together late March to celebrate the early spring arrival in Berlin and reconnect on Google technology.

Sorry for the late notice, but we decided it would be better to have a small event next week rather than wait for our late April meeting to see each other again. Therefore we are looking forward to welcoming you in the Less Rain basement, where Jerome will present How to super-charge your startup with Google App Engine, and our usual GTUG updates. Afterwards lets have a drink and chat.

The Meeting will take place on Monday, 26th of March, at 7pm. We'll meet at Less Rain, Linienstrasse 154a, 10115 Berlin.

Please register for the event at meetup.

About our main presentation: How to super-charge your startup with Google App Engine

Jerome, CTO at SnapEngage, will briefly present Google AppEngine, and will focus on why the PaaS from Google should be a hosting platform considered by any early stage Internet startup. The presentation will then focus on good practices to get started with Google AppEngine, and some ways to avoid common issues.

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.