Rohit Ghatol, who was supposed to give the “Getting started with OpenSocial” presentation tomorrow is down with viral fever, and hence this event is postponed to next Saturday, 18th April. Other details remain the same. See the updated post for other details.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
– Vishwesh Jigrale, Pune GTUG Manager
Update: This event was earlier scheduled for 11 April. Rohit Ghatol, the presenter is down with viral fever, hence this event is postponed to 18th April
What:Pune Google Technology Users Group (Pune GTUG) presents a seminar “Getting started with OpenSocial”
When: Saturday, 18th April. 3pm onwards
Where: Synerzip. Dnyanvatsal Commercial Complex, Survey No. 23, Plot No. 189, Near Mirch Masala Restaurant , Opp Vandevi Temple, Karve Nagar (Map).
Registration and Fees: The event is free for all, no registration required.
Details
Agenda for this meet is as follows
1. General overview of OpenSocial (But participates are expected to read about OpenSocial)
2. Getting started with a simple Gadget
3. Getting started with a simple OpenSocial Application
4. Overview of RestFul APIs for Server side OpenSocial Applications
For more information about PuneGTUG, see the PuneTech wiki profile of PuneGTUG. For other tech events happening in Pune, see the PuneTech calendar.
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After the amazing success of PHPCamp in Pune last week, and also noticing the amount of attention received by OpenSocial on the one hand, and PHP based CMSs (like Drupal, Joomla) on the other, some of the organizers of PHPCamp, and others, are thinking of having more specific barcamps in Pune on those two topics. The kickoff meeting to plan and organize those events is happening this Saturday, at the Level 9 Cafe, at ICC towers on S.B. Road.
If you want motivation on why you should get involved in organizing events like this, check out Amit’s post on the 10 things he got out of organizing PHPCamp. Even if you miss the meeting, you can join late and follow the discussion over at the PHPCamp mailing list the OpenSocial Developer Garage mailing list.
Rohan Dighe, one of the primary organizers of this meeting, left the following comment, which gives much more detail on what this meeting is about. I am reproducing the comment here:
After PHPCamp, a few of us have been planning on an event specifically focused on Content Management Systems (CMS Camp) and also an event focused on Opensocial (building apps for orkut/myspace/hi5, etc).
Below are the details of ODG:-
The Opensocial Event is named “Opensocial Developer Garage”
We at Social Web Factory have been planning long to host an event like this specifically focused on social web apps and current web2.0 trends and looks like our dreams are coming true.
So, Opensocial Developer Garage’08 – Pune has a tentative date of (20th December’08, it’s a saturday!)
Now, the idea of the event is to unite all the social web apps developers from all over the country and just share/code/have fun and maybe inspire a few wannabee..
The idea is not to duplicate PHPCamp (get 750+ people) but to focus on the genuine/interested crowd, opensocial enthusiasts or app developers. I really have no estimate now of how many people would come or how everything would fall in place but i just have a feeling that this can be done.
The event is a free event but is an invitation only event, we will call for speakers as well as delegates as soon as our website is up.
My plan is to invite people from Google/MySpace/BigAdda/20 other social networking website owners and their developers. We really need people to have the “WoW!!” feeling when they are at the event.
Venue/Sponsors are yet to be decided. I am preparing an email which we will send to multiple groups including expert opensocial developers across the country and big SNS groups.
I guess that all i have for now:
The kickoff meeting to plan and organize those events is happening this
Saturday (tomorow) , at the Level 9 Cafe, at ICC towers on S.B. Road.Agenda for the meet would be
1) To finalize goals for both the camps
2) un-conference/ conference
3) Budgets
4) Organizers/ Volunteers
5) Strategy/Game Plan
6) Resource Allocations
7) Venue.I am setting up the website DeveloperGarage.in and should be up soon.
Google Groups have been setup.
All the discussions regarding Opensocial Developer Garage will happen here.
Join Up.
Homepage:
http://groups.google.com/group/developergarageGroup email: developergarage@googlegroups.com
OpenSocial Developer Garage now has a profile on the PuneTech wiki.
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Rohit Ghatol of the Pune GTUG (Google Technologies User Group) recently conducted a well received tutorial on Google Web Toolkit. Based on user interest, he is trying to gauge whether there is enough interest to conduct another tutorial, this time on Google Gadget and Google OpenSocial development platforms. If you are interested, please let him know by filling out this survey.
For more information, see the PuneTech wiki profile of PUNE GTUG or join the Pune GTUG mailing list.
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(This information was sent in by PuneTech reader Shardul Mohite)
CSI Pune presents
What: Seminar on Google’s OpenSocial platform
When: 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Friday 20th June, 2008
Where: Persistent Systems, “Bhageerath”, SB Road
Who can attend: Free for CSI members, Rs. 100 for others. Registration will be at the venue
Writing Apps for Orkut and Other OpenSocial Containers
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.
A common API means you have less to learn to build for multiple websites. OpenSocial is currently being developed by a broad set of members of the web community. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.
Rajdeep Dua
Rajdeep is with Google Developer API Evangelism team working on OpenSocial Advocacy. He has around 10 years of experience in Middleware, Web Services and Integration space. Before joining Google he was leading development effort for CSF: Connected Services Framework Initiative in Microsoft India. He has also contributed to JBoss Open source development in the Past.
Rajdeep holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow, India.
Rohit Ghatol
Rohit is part of Google Developer API Evangelism team working on OpenSocial Advocacy and support. He carries around 6 years of experience in Java Enterprise and Web 2.0 technologies space. Before joining Google he was a Project Manager with a firm in Pune working exclusively on Ajax Technogoly.
