This is a cross-post from the Official Google Blog
Google I/O, our annual developer conference, begins in just two days, and this year, we’re bringing you more than 130 technical sessions, 20 code labs and 155 Sandbox partners. If you’re not here in San Francisco, you can still sign up for one of our 350+ I/O Extended events around the world or tune in to I/O Live to watch the live stream from wherever you are. This year’s conference kicks off on June 28 with the first day’s keynote at 2:30 a.m. EST and the second day’s keynote on June 29 at 3:00 a.m. EST, so tune in early at developers.google.com/io to avoid missing the action!
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More than 40 sessions on Android, Chrome, Google+ and your favorite APIs will be streamed live, and all remaining session videos will be recorded and available shortly after the conference on Google Developers Live and the conference website. Between sessions, we’ll bring you behind-the-scenes footage featuring interviews with Googlers and attendees, tours of the Sandbox and more. The stream will also continue through our After Hours party (June 28 starting at 12:00 p.m. EST), where we've teamed up with top entertainers, inventors, artists, educators and visionaries from all over the world for an amazing evening. (Or lunchtime, if you're in Australia!)
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
In amongst all the technical workshops at yesterday’s Google Developer Day in Sydney was a panel discussion on venture capital and entrepreneurialism. Getting an idea off the ground takes as much business judgment as it does technical know-how, so we brought in a few experts that have been around the block with a start-up or five.
Rebekah Campbell, founder of Posse told us how it took one-and-a-half years and “more than 1000 meetings” to raise enough money to get her idea off the ground. She talked about the various forms of funding sources, such as government grants.
Many in the audience asked Mick Liubinskas, co-founder of Australian angel investor group Pollenizer, about the do’s and don’ts of attracting investment. His advice? Do be stubborn about sticking to your vision. But don’t wait forever to launch. A fast launch is essential to testing your idea or concept. And don’t be so inflexible to not consider a different approach.
Scott Farquhar from Atlassian told us about the importance of keeping focus and how making lots of mistakes are okay (such as opening up, and then quickly closing, a New York office after realising it was in the wrong place). Just make sure the mistakes aren’t fatal ones, he says.
What came out strongly in the session is that you need to take the leap and not be afraid of failure. While Australians celebrate success, we do not do so well at embracing those who tried and failed. Business people who lead failed companies are too often tainted with innuendo of wrongdoing, when we should look to them as pioneers who can bring wisdom to their next venture. At Google we say: “fail fast and iterate.” We cultivate an environment where failure is fine, as long as you do it quickly and learn from it.
Behind most people’s stories of commercial success are often a history of start-ups which didn’t go the way they intended. Just ask Pollenizer’s Mick, who has worked on 150 businesses - not all of them hitting the mark.
At the event I asked how many people in the room wanted to do a start-up one day. Three-quarters of the 100+ crowd put up their hands. So the good news is that there’s certainly no shortage of budding Aussie entrepreneurs wanting to give it a go.
Posted by Alan Noble, Engineering Director, Google Australia.
Many in the audience asked Mick Liubinskas, co-founder of Australian angel investor group Pollenizer, about the do’s and don’ts of attracting investment. His advice? Do be stubborn about sticking to your vision. But don’t wait forever to launch. A fast launch is essential to testing your idea or concept. And don’t be so inflexible to not consider a different approach.
Scott Farquhar from Atlassian told us about the importance of keeping focus and how making lots of mistakes are okay (such as opening up, and then quickly closing, a New York office after realising it was in the wrong place). Just make sure the mistakes aren’t fatal ones, he says.
What came out strongly in the session is that you need to take the leap and not be afraid of failure. While Australians celebrate success, we do not do so well at embracing those who tried and failed. Business people who lead failed companies are too often tainted with innuendo of wrongdoing, when we should look to them as pioneers who can bring wisdom to their next venture. At Google we say: “fail fast and iterate.” We cultivate an environment where failure is fine, as long as you do it quickly and learn from it.
Behind most people’s stories of commercial success are often a history of start-ups which didn’t go the way they intended. Just ask Pollenizer’s Mick, who has worked on 150 businesses - not all of them hitting the mark.
At the event I asked how many people in the room wanted to do a start-up one day. Three-quarters of the 100+ crowd put up their hands. So the good news is that there’s certainly no shortage of budding Aussie entrepreneurs wanting to give it a go.
Posted by Alan Noble, Engineering Director, Google Australia.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Celebrating developers: Developer Day registration open
Calling all developers! We've opened registration for developers to attend Google Developer Day 2011 in Sydney on November 8th, 2011. It should be a great line up with explorations of the latest developments in Android, Chrome, HTML5, Cloud and more. It will take place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
While we’re talking all-things developer, we wanted to send congratulations to Peter Finch, Brian McKenna, and Marko Vuksanovic, the Australian winners of the Open Call for Developers HTML5 challenge.
Screenshots of their beautiful creations are featured below: each participant of the challenge was asked to design and implement an original HTML5 doodle of the Google Developer day Dymaxion map, adding their own local twist. Doodles had to be built using open web technologies (HTML5, WebGL, etc.) and feature a local theme.
While we’re talking all-things developer, we wanted to send congratulations to Peter Finch, Brian McKenna, and Marko Vuksanovic, the Australian winners of the Open Call for Developers HTML5 challenge.
Screenshots of their beautiful creations are featured below: each participant of the challenge was asked to design and implement an original HTML5 doodle of the Google Developer day Dymaxion map, adding their own local twist. Doodles had to be built using open web technologies (HTML5, WebGL, etc.) and feature a local theme.
Creator: Peter Finch
How did you do it? The doodle is created using a HTML5 2D canvas element. The Dymaxion map is programmatically generated by subdividing the triangles in the original map into smaller sub-triangles and then drawing all of them in different colours based on a colour map representing the image to be drawn. The colour maps were generated using a Java program that mapped the relative location of the triangle onto a target image and then back onto the page colour map. The waves then merge the images, one on top of another, to create the transition effect.
How did you do it? The doodle is created using a HTML5 2D canvas element. The Dymaxion map is programmatically generated by subdividing the triangles in the original map into smaller sub-triangles and then drawing all of them in different colours based on a colour map representing the image to be drawn. The colour maps were generated using a Java program that mapped the relative location of the triangle onto a target image and then back onto the page colour map. The waves then merge the images, one on top of another, to create the transition effect.
Creator: Brian McKenna
How did you do it? I imported the Dymaxion map to Blender and then animated it to transform into the Opera House using "shape keys". The Dymaxion map, Opera House, Southern Cross and stars all rendered using Three.js. Everything else rendered with normal HTML5/CSS3.
Creator: Marko Vuksanovic
How did you do it? Doodle is a manipulation of the Dymaxion map using HTML canvas element. Interactivity is achieved using native drag and drop events and transitions. Animations are used to transition between the iconic landmarks of Sydney.
Congratulations to Brian, Marko and Peter - and hope to see you all at Google Developer Day in November.
Posted by Alan Noble, Director of Engineering Google Australia.
How did you do it? I imported the Dymaxion map to Blender and then animated it to transform into the Opera House using "shape keys". The Dymaxion map, Opera House, Southern Cross and stars all rendered using Three.js. Everything else rendered with normal HTML5/CSS3.
Creator: Marko Vuksanovic
How did you do it? Doodle is a manipulation of the Dymaxion map using HTML canvas element. Interactivity is achieved using native drag and drop events and transitions. Animations are used to transition between the iconic landmarks of Sydney.
Congratulations to Brian, Marko and Peter - and hope to see you all at Google Developer Day in November.
Posted by Alan Noble, Director of Engineering Google Australia.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for Women in Technology
Dr. Anita Borg devoted her adult life to revolutionising the way we think about technology and dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Anita's technical expertise and fearless vision inspires and motivates women to become leaders in creating technology.
At Google, we believe that the wave of information and communications on the web is changing lives for the better and creates fantastic options for students choosing careers in technology. We want to continue Anita's vision for women and we're excited to announce the 2010 Google Australia and New Zealand Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Through the scholarship, we aim to encourage women to excel in computing and technology and become active role models and leaders.
We're looking for women with a strong academic background who have demonstrated leadership. Each scholar recipient will receive a $5,000 scholarship towards the 2011 academic year. In addition all finalists and scholarship recipients will be invited to an expenses-paid networking retreat to be held at Google’s Sydney Engineering centre in September.
The scholarship is open for women students at an Australian or New Zealand university who have completed one or more years of a Bachelors degree with at least one year of study remaining, whether as part of a Bachelors or postgraduate degree. We're looking for women studying Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics, or a closely related technical field, who have maintained an excellent academic record. See full information and apply here.
Good luck!
At Google, we believe that the wave of information and communications on the web is changing lives for the better and creates fantastic options for students choosing careers in technology. We want to continue Anita's vision for women and we're excited to announce the 2010 Google Australia and New Zealand Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Through the scholarship, we aim to encourage women to excel in computing and technology and become active role models and leaders.
We're looking for women with a strong academic background who have demonstrated leadership. Each scholar recipient will receive a $5,000 scholarship towards the 2011 academic year. In addition all finalists and scholarship recipients will be invited to an expenses-paid networking retreat to be held at Google’s Sydney Engineering centre in September.
The scholarship is open for women students at an Australian or New Zealand university who have completed one or more years of a Bachelors degree with at least one year of study remaining, whether as part of a Bachelors or postgraduate degree. We're looking for women studying Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics, or a closely related technical field, who have maintained an excellent academic record. See full information and apply here.
Good luck!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Victoria lands 90 new innovation starters
I'm thrilled to see a great initiative in Victoria. Premier John Brumby has announced that 90 new Victorian Government datasets have been released and set free for public access and consumption from www.data.vic.gov.au. That's 90 new ways to kick start innovation.
Premier Brumby has also launched App My State to encourage Victorians to use these 90 datasets to create new services to help Victorians. There are $100000 in prizes up for grabs, entries close on April 23rd.
At Google we're big believers that information is more powerful when it's set free. Much of the effort of the Government 2.0 Taskforce I took part in last year was put into making public sector information freely accessible to everyone. I firmly believe that there's no point keeping publicly funded, non-confidential public data (such as transit information, post box locations, recycling and waste collection information, public school catchment areas and countless others) locked up behind a Government firewall, of little use to anyone. I want to see this PSI freely available to all. It will promote great social benefits, not least the immense potential for innovative new products and services to be developed here. We saw some great mash ups come out of our Hackfest competition.
Premier Brumby has also launched App My State to encourage Victorians to use these 90 datasets to create new services to help Victorians. There are $100000 in prizes up for grabs, entries close on April 23rd.
At Google we're big believers that information is more powerful when it's set free. Much of the effort of the Government 2.0 Taskforce I took part in last year was put into making public sector information freely accessible to everyone. I firmly believe that there's no point keeping publicly funded, non-confidential public data (such as transit information, post box locations, recycling and waste collection information, public school catchment areas and countless others) locked up behind a Government firewall, of little use to anyone. I want to see this PSI freely available to all. It will promote great social benefits, not least the immense potential for innovative new products and services to be developed here. We saw some great mash ups come out of our Hackfest competition.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Two great hackfest days!
This is a guest cross post from blog.openaustralia.org
Last weekend, OpenAustralia held its second hackfest at Google's Sydney office. If you haven't come across OpenAustralia.org before, it's a volunteer run website which helps you to find out what your representatives get up to in parliament with the aim of bridging the growing democratic disconnect that many people feel.
This time we went all out with a two day hackfest - 10:30am till 8pm both days. That's over 18 hours of hacking! As well as the venue and a fabulous team of volunteers, which included Tim Ansell, James Polley and Pamela Fox, Google provided lunch and snacks for both days. Thank you to Google for supporting this community!
It was an amazing turnout by an incredibly talented group of people. Over 90 people took part, including a surprise group from CSIRO who happened to be wandering past and dropped in to see what we were up to. We were also delighted to have 30 people take part in the first ever retroactively-named OpenAustralia installfest - installing the development virtual machine onto their laptops, and walking through the first steps showing how they can make changes to the code, test locally, and then submit to our repository on github. During the course of the hackfest, we had half a dozen or so patches pushed to us - we're still working through the process of accepting them all! We also had 40-odd updates to bugs on our tracker.
Photos by Halans. For more fabulous photos by Halans and others see Flickr.
This hackfest was timed to coincide with the Gov2.0 Taskforce MashupAustralia competition, and we encouraged people to work on mashups for the competition, OpenAustralia itself, or any other civic-minded project.
At the same time hacking on MashupAustralia on the weekend was the #melbhack session, organised by Lonely Planet and the GovHack folks.
If people weren't in the mood for hacking, either on a mashup or OpenAustralia, we had presentations and directed hacking sessions scheduled throughout both days. Plenty for all to do.
We gave out small prizes (donated by Google) to some of our favourite mashups created over the weekend. Working demos, however rough, won out over plans, however well-formed.
Our favourite mashup, the "Suburb Matchmaker", was created over the weekend by Raul Alberto Caceres (@totocol), Daniela Fernandez (@danira_98) and Roberto Arias Alegria (@roberto8080). It was particularly impressive that this team met over lunch on the first day and decided on the spot to work together. "Suburb Matchmaker" helps you find the suburb that's right for you by answering some simple questions.
Second place went to the "Frog Census" by Simon Swain (@psi6030). See where and when different frogs have been spotted in South Australia.
The irreverant "Bouncing Teapots" by Dan Bethell (@fxmonkeydan) and Ray Haleblian (@rhaleblian) came third. The "Bouncing Teapots" simulated members of the House of Representatives as teapots falling where the more time they spoke in parliament the more bouncy they were.
We hope that one of these or one the many other projects that were worked on over the weekend will win the MashupAustralia competition!
To follow OpenAustralia's progress and find out when we'll be running the next Hackfest near you please read our blog, follow us on Twitter, Facebook or join our community mailing list on Google Groups!
This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
Last weekend, OpenAustralia held its second hackfest at Google's Sydney office. If you haven't come across OpenAustralia.org before, it's a volunteer run website which helps you to find out what your representatives get up to in parliament with the aim of bridging the growing democratic disconnect that many people feel.
This time we went all out with a two day hackfest - 10:30am till 8pm both days. That's over 18 hours of hacking! As well as the venue and a fabulous team of volunteers, which included Tim Ansell, James Polley and Pamela Fox, Google provided lunch and snacks for both days. Thank you to Google for supporting this community!
It was an amazing turnout by an incredibly talented group of people. Over 90 people took part, including a surprise group from CSIRO who happened to be wandering past and dropped in to see what we were up to. We were also delighted to have 30 people take part in the first ever retroactively-named OpenAustralia installfest - installing the development virtual machine onto their laptops, and walking through the first steps showing how they can make changes to the code, test locally, and then submit to our repository on github. During the course of the hackfest, we had half a dozen or so patches pushed to us - we're still working through the process of accepting them all! We also had 40-odd updates to bugs on our tracker.
Photos by Halans. For more fabulous photos by Halans and others see Flickr.
This hackfest was timed to coincide with the Gov2.0 Taskforce MashupAustralia competition, and we encouraged people to work on mashups for the competition, OpenAustralia itself, or any other civic-minded project.
At the same time hacking on MashupAustralia on the weekend was the #melbhack session, organised by Lonely Planet and the GovHack folks.
If people weren't in the mood for hacking, either on a mashup or OpenAustralia, we had presentations and directed hacking sessions scheduled throughout both days. Plenty for all to do.
We gave out small prizes (donated by Google) to some of our favourite mashups created over the weekend. Working demos, however rough, won out over plans, however well-formed.
Our favourite mashup, the "Suburb Matchmaker", was created over the weekend by Raul Alberto Caceres (@totocol), Daniela Fernandez (@danira_98) and Roberto Arias Alegria (@roberto8080). It was particularly impressive that this team met over lunch on the first day and decided on the spot to work together. "Suburb Matchmaker" helps you find the suburb that's right for you by answering some simple questions.
Second place went to the "Frog Census" by Simon Swain (@psi6030). See where and when different frogs have been spotted in South Australia.
The irreverant "Bouncing Teapots" by Dan Bethell (@fxmonkeydan) and Ray Haleblian (@rhaleblian) came third. The "Bouncing Teapots" simulated members of the House of Representatives as teapots falling where the more time they spoke in parliament the more bouncy they were.
We hope that one of these or one the many other projects that were worked on over the weekend will win the MashupAustralia competition!
To follow OpenAustralia's progress and find out when we'll be running the next Hackfest near you please read our blog, follow us on Twitter, Facebook or join our community mailing list on Google Groups!
This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
OpenAustralia Hackfest in Google Sydney
We're delighted to host the OpenAustralia Hackfest - The MashupAustralia Edition on 7-8 November in Google's office in Sydney. It's a free all-weekend hacking competition where you get to build cool applications using data from data.australia.gov.au, with the chance to win prizes, including a $10,000 first prize.
I've been banging on for ages about the benefits of freeing public sector information such as public transport data and making it accessible to all. Information is more powerful when it's set free and PSI is publicly funded, intended for public consumption and of great benefit to society.
I'm particularly excited about what Open Australia is doing to make our democracy more accountable by making Parliamentary records more accessible to Australians. There's no better way to show the value of opening up government data than by creating a practical demonstration and I can't wait to see what you come up with!
I've been banging on for ages about the benefits of freeing public sector information such as public transport data and making it accessible to all. Information is more powerful when it's set free and PSI is publicly funded, intended for public consumption and of great benefit to society.
I'm particularly excited about what Open Australia is doing to make our democracy more accountable by making Parliamentary records more accessible to Australians. There's no better way to show the value of opening up government data than by creating a practical demonstration and I can't wait to see what you come up with!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Introducing students to open source software development
Google Summer of Code™, our flagship program to introduce college and university students to open source software development, is now in full swing. Over the past four years, we've paired nearly 2,500 student "graduates" with more than 2,500 mentors from industry to academia, with some spectacular results: millions of lines of source code produced and over $15M USD (almost $22M AUD) in funding provided to open source development. We're particularly excited by the social ties our students participants form through the course of the program - we've connected people in more than 98 countries, and hope to bring people from even more places into the Google Summer of Code community this year.
We're accepting student applications now through April 3rd. For more details, including how to apply, please see the Google Open Source Blog.
We're accepting student applications now through April 3rd. For more details, including how to apply, please see the Google Open Source Blog.
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