GDG Kampala is organising a code lab to show software developers how to use the Google Maps API on the web. Google maps can be used to build innovative websites right from a map showing Gorilla trekking routes in the Mgahinga mountains to a map showing places where significant events happened in Uganda over the last 50 years. Google Maps has a wide array of APIs that let you embed the robust functionality and everyday usefulness of Google Maps into your own website and applications, and overlay your own data on top of them. We believe the code lab will help us come up with such interesting applications.Please express your interest to attend by registering at http://goo.gl/iupsL

Its time to show the world what you can do with the Google Apps and the Google Drive API. Developers from 6 regions across the world will win prizes that include Chrome Books and up to $20,00 USD with other special prizes for students and female developers. Submit an applications in one of these categories: Enterprise/Small Business Solutions, Social/Personal Productivity/Games/Fun, Not for profit/Eduction/Food/Hunger Health More info athttp://www.google.com/events/gadc2012/

GDG Kampala shall be hosting free viewing parties of the Google I/O 2012 Sessions from June 27-29 2012. Connect with other talented developers and watch live feeds of the conference.

The focus of the event was an overview on various Google technologies that could be used for startup weekend Kampala

Join Googlers, GTUG members, and fellow developers at our first Google+ APIs hackathon in Uganda.

The Global Android Dev Camp takes place from February 17th to 19th, 2012. Android developers from all over the world come together at more than 50 locations and hack for 48 hours - nonstop! Globally, about 1,000 developers are expected - from Berlin, Munich and Dusseldorf, to Warsaw and London, to Africa, Kyoto and San Diego.There are no restrictions whatsoever, apart from the focus on Android. No matter whether the participants are working on individual projects or in a team; whether the project teams are collaborating at one location or are creating virtual project teams of various regions and nations. The participants share their intermediate results and experiences via G+ hangouts (video chats), conference calls, or shared documents to mark their progress, support each other and hopefully share the fun they are having.At the end of the hackathon the participants present their projects and the audience choses a winning project. After the event, the results of the hackathon as well as photos and videos will be made available to all participants and everyone else interested. 

This event was a hackathon that was encouraging GTUG developers to participate in the Apps4Africa Eastern Version

This October, GTUG Kampala is bringing together android developers (intermediate to advanced) together for an android hands on deep dive.The session will be purely practical with the target of giving you an advanced understanding and practical application of Android.

The Lounge was meant to create awareness around what a GTUG does!

GTUG Kampala will host java developers to a Java 7 Launch party at Hive Colab. Topics for discussion will range from what comprises the Java platform to what next for Java. Do not miss this interesting event.

Android developers are coming together for an evening session on android development. Topics are going to be totally dveloper related and awesome.

GTUG Open house will accomodate all people interested in knowing about Google's technologies and more than that to come and be part of the day. With focus on Open Social and Android

Mapping party will be held to wrap up the map your polling station competition in Uganda https://sites.google.com/site/ugandapolls/home

The session mainly focused on HTML5 and youtube

1. Using the Opensocial API that enables the building of social apps that can work across multiple websites.

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

2. Use of Google Analytics to provide insights on website traffic and marketing effectiveness.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/analytics/

 

Using the Opensocial API that enables the building of social apps that can work across multiple websites.      http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

2. Use of Google Analytics to provide insights on website traffic and marketing effectiveness.     http://www.google.com/analytics/     http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/analytics/

Mapping party is geared towards having fun while adding schools, roads, government offices, bars, hospitals among others  on maps. You need a team of friends , colleagues and associates who  know Uganda as back of their  hands . Their knowledge will come handy in this challenge . Register the team and be ready for the party

The second event for gtugs here and the first at Makerere ended well Friday 20th with an introduction to the android Operating System. Josephat Olinga took the participants through the session. It was an interactive session attended by about 20 people, mostly consisting of students and a few professional developers.

GTUG Kampala and Linux user group came together to make an invent. There was an Intoduction to AppEngine and Python tutoria from LUG group

Being a first event, we kept the topics to more of a general outlook at the Google Technologies. There was some more in-depth discussion at the 3 technologies; Android, Google Maps APIs and Google App Engine. We are planning our next event to be more of a hackthorn at one or 2 of the APIs. More details will be communicated in the mailing list