5 Meetups. 6 MapUps. 3 Hackathons. A MapMaker Summit and a DevFest.
Over the past 18 months, the GDG Bacolod community has grown to become one of the Philippines' most active chapters. Check out our journey in 30 slides.
GDG Bacolod year in review, presented at the GDG Organizers' Summit, December 2012
2012 Planning/Meetup, Colegio San Agustin Meetup, Global Android Dev Camp
The Bacolod community started the year with a massive meetup: 400 students showed up at Colegio San Agustin to know more about everything new and awesome about tech. Hosted by the Engineering Department of CSA, students from seven colleges and universities flocked (some even travelled for 2 hours just to get there!) to learn more about ideation, development, and monetization.
Devs later camped out, sleeping bags in tow, at the Global Android Dev Camp in February. Hosted by CSA, the community saw so much potential in the local developers that succeeding hackathons were a no-brainer. Churning out 6 apps in its first hackathon, attendees later went on to join (and win!) Startup Weekends in Manila and Cebu.
MapMaker Summit & Meetup, DART Hackathon, Silay & Bacolod MapUp, Google I/O Extended, Google Apps Dev Challenge, Negros Occidental Tourism MapUp
Coming out of the first quarter with a stellar track record in supporting local developers, Bacolod joined 18 other cities all over to world for the Happy Hour Hackathon. Organized by the community with support from Google, attendees were treated to a technology preview of DART.
Bacolod and Silay City MapUp, DevFest Bacolod, Sanitation Hackathon, Maps API Workshop
DevFestBCD, which was prepped, announced, and organized in under two weeks, was the community's first time to witness a DevFest outside of Manila. Local developers were treated to discussions on Android, HTML5, DART, Apps, and YouTube amidst colorful bean bags and red, blue, green, and yellow lights.
We thought that was it for the year. We were proven wrong a month later.
Organized in partnership with the World Bank, the community joined more than 1,100 developers and experts to tackle sanitation challenges. Bacolod produced 10 apps at the Sanitation Hackathon --- 200% more than any other site in the Philippines. We'll be announcing something even more awesome on February 9th, so watch this space for more details.
What's next?
This is just the beginning. 2013 will be a whole lot more awesome.
We're off to Bacolod this weekend with the World Bank reps to award the winners of the Sanitation Hackathon --- with special announcements to boot! ;)
A week later, we will be back to run our 2nd student event, now known as the GDG Student Developers Day. Hosted by La Consolacion College, the student community will be given a preview of what to expect after they graduate. There will be discussions on HTML5, Android, Google Sites/Apps, and Startups.
We're working with local developers to develop a tourism app too! Stay tuned, we will be posting announcements in this blog.
Want to learn more how to help GDG? Shoot me an email! We're always on the lookout for volunteers passionate about sharing their time and resources to help the community.
We're off to Bacolod this weekend with the World Bank reps to award the winners of the Sanitation Hackathon --- with special announcements to boot! ;)
A week later, we will be back to run our 2nd student event, now known as the GDG Student Developers Day. Hosted by La Consolacion College, the student community will be given a preview of what to expect after they graduate. There will be discussions on HTML5, Android, Google Sites/Apps, and Startups.
We're working with local developers to develop a tourism app too! Stay tuned, we will be posting announcements in this blog.
Want to learn more how to help GDG? Shoot me an email! We're always on the lookout for volunteers passionate about sharing their time and resources to help the community.
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