We are on Meetup.com now / Come to our September meetup
Stefan Hoth (Co-Lead)
Hi fellow members,
we are back from the summer break and have a bag of news for you.
New event management tool: meetup.com
For our next few meetings we'll be testing the well known meetup-platform.
Why we chose meetup:
- platform for face-to-face meetings, a perfect fit for our GTUG
- public list of attendees
- review for groups and single meetups, good for checking beforehand and collecting feedback afterwards
- easy way to share photos of recent meetups
- automatic reminders for group members who didn't yet decide if they will attend
- one account for all meetup-groups - check it out, there's a lot going on in Berlin.
The google group and other means of communication (twitter, facebook, xing etc.) will stay alive, too.
And we start the takeoff of the new meetup-group with our...
September meetup at a new location
We want to give our members the best experience so we like to try out new things. The next meeting of the Berlin GTUG will take place on September 12th, starting at 18:30h, in the cafeteria of Club-Office, a very nice co-working and office space, located Bundesallee 171, 10715 Berlin.
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, an update on the Google Developer Day in Berlin, and a fun raffle of awesome swags.
Your tasks
- sign up for meetup and the Berlin GTUG group
- RSVP to our Septemer meetup, preferably with YES but NO would be ok as well for planning (this time! ;-) )
- import the date into your calendar so you don't forget us
See you all at Club-Office!