Friday, April 13, 2007

Google to hold international developer event

GOOGLE offices in ten countries will host a global developer conference on May 31, with proceedings starting off at 9am in Sydney and finishing 27 hours later at Google headquarters in California.

The company said Google Developer Day would feature workshops, keynotes and breakout discussions on Google APIs and developer tools.

Titled “Building Blocks for Better Web Applications,” the event aims to explore new innovative uses of Google developer products to create and improve applications, and to integrate with Google services.

Presentation during the day will be made from Sao Paulo, Madrid, London, Paris, Hamburg, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney and Mountain View.

“We're very excited to hold this first-ever worldwide Google developer gathering,” Google vice-president Marissa Mayer said.

“Developers are using Google's APIs and tools to build innovative web applications that we never dreamed of, and Google Developer Day is an opportunity for them to connect with one another, learn the latest techniques and have their questions answered by Google's developer product teams,” she said.

“It's also a chance for us to get feedback from the community and find ways to make our developer offerings even better.”

Confirmed speakers include Guido Van Rossum, Google software engineer and creator of the Python programming language who will present from Beijing; Chris DiBona the Google open source programs manager from London; Mark Stahl, Google data APIs tech lead from Madrid and Bruce Johnson and Joel Webber, co-creators of the Google Web Toolkit from the company’s Mountain View headquarters.

Google Maps senior engineer Lars Rasmussen will make a presentation from the company’s Sydney offices, while Greg Stein, a Google engineering manager and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation will present from Tokyo.

To reach developers everywhere, Google will offer live streaming web casts from its Mountain View office and provide a YouTube channel with videos of Google Developer Day sessions around the world.

Google will stream live web casts of the event from its Mountain View office and provide a YouTube channel with videos of Google Developer Day sessions around the world.

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