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Chicago Android workshops and eco-challenge hackathon

Saturday, February 6, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CT)

Chicago, IL

Chicago Android workshops and eco-challenge hackathon

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Thank you to Google Android Advocate team for handing out free DROID phones to all participants!
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Chicago Google Technology User Group (#ChiGTUG) is proud to present Android development workshops and hackathon. We are lucky here in Chicago to have a very vibrant community of Android phone developers, in big part due to presence of major corporations like Google, Motorola and IBM as well as many entrepreneurs.

Competition first prize sponsor: Uki D. Lucas, principal, open systems, The Revere Group...
Teams already registered for the competition (manually updated):
  • RavWare
    • Ravi Singh, 
    • Jaya Singh
  • SIGDROID
    • Joshua Jay, 
    • Herman Kadambari, 
    • Devarajan Praveen Venkatachari, 
    • Jeremy J Ervin, 
    • Richa Agarwal 
  • Loyola CUERP: <-- WINNERS
    • Matthew Wojtowicz, 
    • Emily Brand
  • Cosby's Sweater
    • Jordan Beck
    • Phil Wodarczyk 
    • Trevor Skaife
    • Jamesom Ohms
  • Four Finger Poke
    • Juan Bonfante, 
    • Craig McRae
  • Sharp I DROID 
    • Blanche Faur
    • Mymoona Tahseen

Event hosted by Uki D. Lucas and Jason Goodrich in cooperation with Google Corporation and ...

 

Individual sponsors:

  • James Schiffman
  • Paul Tambornino
  • Marek Gibiec
  • Girish Washikar
  • Nikola Novakovic
  • James Wylder
  • Pavlo Cherkashyn

Agenda (presentations and code workshops will commence at the same time):
  • 9 AM 
    • Uki D. Lucas: opening, organization
    • Jason Goodrich - OfficePort
  • 9:15 AM 
    • Pallavi Kaushik: "Android meets HTML5"
  • 10 AM 
    • Cuneyt Taskiran: "Android development 101 Twitter App"
  • 11 AM Google
    • Justin Mattson 
  • 1 PM - lunch break:
    • LIVE MUSIC by Jason Goodrich, 
    • conversations about alternative energy with Uki D. Lucas
  • 2 PM   Google: 
    • Justin Mattson android.bluetooth package (please review prior to presentation)
  • 3 PM 
    • Pek Pongpaet: Twitter applications: Tweetlytics
  • 3:30 PM 
    • competition team presentations (product does not have to be finished)
  • 4:45 PM awards
    • judge panel: Pek Pongpaet, Peter Morano, Bob Brill, James Wylder,..
  • 5 PM  
    • dinner out (TBD), after party

We hope to create much buzz and idea exchange on Twitter #ChiGTUG

Hackathon guidelines:

  1. Application will be developed for Android platform
  2. Teams can consist of any number of participants
  3. Development can start early, but Application should NOT be available publicly before the start of the hackathon
  4. Optional eco-challenge: anything related to solar, wind, wave, bio-fuels, recycling, green movement social apps, global warming (think Google maps), science tools and many many other ideas
  5. At the end of hackathon each team will present in 15-30 minutes:
  • functioning application
  • brief business plan
  • technical solutions
  • team members introduction
  • explanation how the application fits into the competition's categories 


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OfficePort Chicago
9 W. Washington Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL

Saturday, February 6, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CT)


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