G-Ghana is an annual Google event which engages Ghanaian business and developers to highlight entrepreneurial opportunities presented by the internet.

It will feature some of Google's best engineers, product managers, business managers and leadership speaking about Google's open web and mobile technologies. Attendees will have the chance to explore Google's latest industry tools through a combination of tech talks and breakout sessions. Key among the speakers will be Estelle Akofio Sowah, Country Lead, Google Ghana, and Nelson Mattos, the Vice President of EMEA Product Management and Engineering for Google.

Highlights of the first day will includean advanced training for specialist developers on Google App Engine and Android. The second day will feature a showcase of developers who developed creative solutions using Google tools and platforms.

 

'Getting Started on Android' is an event geared towards android app dev't using different  platforms such as phonegap, sencha and others. 

A talk on the theme 'Entrepreneurship and and the blend of Social Media'. It will take the *barcamp style so to involve participants. Its purposely designed for final year students, to enable them know what's ahead of them after school. On the Social media part, an insight will be given on Google+, usage and benefits: individual, group and institutes, Twitter and LinkedIn among others. It's really going to be a fun-learning session.

BarCamp Cape Coast 2011 is a networking event to bring people together for a day of discussion, demos and dialogue about Cape Coast, Ghana and beyond. It hopes to assemble Cape Coast stakeholders to network, build a supportive entreprising community and partner to build together. BarCamp Cape Coast 2011 will take place on Saturday November 12, 2011 at the New Lecture Theatre at the University of Cape Coast in Cape Coast, Ghana. The theme is “Harnessing IT education for local innovation and tourism development”. BarCamp Cape Coast ’11 is a FREE event for anyone who is interested in using his/her skills, talent, and resources to benefit Cape Coast, Ghana and Africa as a whole.The BarCamp Ghana team has successfully organized seven BarCamps in Ghana. Barcamp Ghana is a project being run by the GhanaThink Foundation, an NGO based both in Ghana and the USA. A BarCamp is a user-generated conference (or unconference). Barcamp Cape Coast 2011 will be organized in conjunction with the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Google Technology Users Group (GTUG). By partnering with the technology group, this Barcamp will focus on creating more awareness about the uses of technology and build knowledge on how to foster innovation in and around Cape Coast and increase visibility through tourism and online content creation. The Barcamp will feature multiple sessions about web tools and products, entrepreneurship driven sessions as well as breakout sessions on topics relevant to the Central region and beyond. Like all Barcamps, there will be user-generated sessions and discussions where attendees get to set the agenda and topics for the day. Local experts will share knowledge on different technologies and successful entrepreneurs and innovators will share their stories to serve as models for participants.

A quick introduction to Python.

Web Dev II is a continuatin of Web Dev I, looking critically into adding advenced features to the web. Its all about advanced web development, PHP , server side programming.

A beginner crash course on Introduction to web development using basic HTML and CSS and javascript.

 

ON  30 September, 2011, a session on building scalable web pages and javascript libraries.

This lab session is a crash introduction on Chrome extensions taking a criticall look at themes and extensions.

G-Start 2011, is a talk series that seek to bring to light the various Google apps that aid in learning and the introduction of GTUG and her activities.

Apps to talk about include: Google Search, Translator, Maps, Body, Books, Scholar among others.

This event is geared towards orienting freshmen on how to enrich their campus experience with technology.

G-Start 2011, is an initiative from Google Ambassadors(UCC), with GTUG support.

Schedule as follows:

Thursday, August 18, 2011  Casely-Hayford Hall Friday, August 19, 2011  Valco Hall Monday, August 22, 2011  Kwame Nkrumah Hall Tuesday, August 23, 2011  Oguaa Hall Wednesday, August 24, 2011  Adehye Hall Thursday, August 25, 2011  Atlantic Hall Friday, August 26, 2011  Graduate Student Hostel and Sasakawa Hostel 

Finishing touches to our GWT Project, CRUD-MINE

 SORRY GUYZ THIS EVENT DID NOT HOLD, IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED!

Wrap-up event for the semester. Its a hot, cracking all fun event spanning from Intro 2 Android, Chrome right down to GWT. A really power packed event. This event will also see us through the completion of our Crud-Mine Project. Activities for the vacation will be layed down. Don't  miss it.

 

 

 

GTUG supporting Google Ambassadors to highlight basic Google Apps to students. This session introduced to participants how to use the applications and their importance to students.

Apps covered include: Gmail, Wave, Search, Body browser, maps, earth, latitude, 3d warehouse, sketchup, docs, adsense, analytics, adwords playground for developers and a lot more.

A session for Adwords training was run to give more insight to participants in the GOMC.

Android OpenHouse Launch Party, is a google sponsored event to launch android Across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Introducing Android Developer Challenge Africa.

Follow this link to register: http://goo.gl/3yxj3

Introduction to Google Chrome Extensions. Looking at the perspectives of developing themes and extensions.

To give members a fair idea of developing Chrome Extensions.

Facilitator: Owusu Subramaniam Kwabena (kobeBigs)

The Crud Mine is a simple blog application which displays blogs created by users using GWT

The meeting is to have an overview of the project and also define task among groups.

Check the project site:http://code.google.com/p/crud-mine

A Road Trip to Google Gh and Ada, to learn, integrate and with Developers and others..

GWT Blitz II, continuation of the previous GWT Training Session.

This event will be commencement of our PROJECT on GWT.

Introduction to Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

        Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google AdWords and Orkut.

        Members will be introduced to the Google Web Toolkit, the features and tools it offers, and how you can quickly develop performance AJAX applications across all major browsers.

A general meeting to bring GTUG to light,