Ideathon Wrapup
December 19th, 2007 | Published in Google Code
Last week we held our first Google Data Ideathon (part unconference, local user group, hackathon, food, and fabulous prizes -- word of the year 2008, here we come!). About 30 people showed up and spent their Thursday night with us -- eating, sitting in on sessions, and mingling with us and each other. We ended up having talks on a variety of topics: intro/tutorials on Google Data, advanced Google Data, using Google Data feeds with Google Maps, Gears, and Mashup Editor. A variety of demos rounded out the presentations. Everyone on the team had a lot of fun, and we hope everyone who attended did too. Thanks to Max U. for the pictures!
If you couldn't make it, check out some of the materials/docs from the sessions here. It was also great hearing from everyone who wrote in asking us to hold events near them, or even offering to host them! We'll definitely be doing more of these in the future -- keep an eye on this blog for where and when future Ideathons will be held.
You can also check out the developer events calendar where you can keep track of this event and others like it: http://code.google.com/events/
If you couldn't make it, check out some of the materials/docs from the sessions here. It was also great hearing from everyone who wrote in asking us to hold events near them, or even offering to host them! We'll definitely be doing more of these in the future -- keep an eye on this blog for where and when future Ideathons will be held.
You can also check out the developer events calendar where you can keep track of this event and others like it: http://code.google.com/events/