Summary of GDG DevFest 2015 Hangzhou

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Summary of GDG DevFest 2015 Hangzhou

November 20th, 2015

It was a Sunday in Nov 15, 2015. There were almost hundred Google fans gathering in Homestead Coffee for GDG Hangzhou DevFest 2015 event. On that day, they all stayed there the whole afternoon, in silence for listening, but also laughing. Are you interested to know what happened there?

The topic of this year is Web development, guest speaker Xiao Shengtao who from local Startup company delivered a open speech on Angular JS topic, he shared his personal experience how from a GDG follower to be a GDG event guest speaker. He used a girl friend metaphor introducing how does he deal with Angular JS. his humorous is so impressive.

The second speaker is Zhang Lei, who is one of GDG Hangzhou organizers, he is true expert on data analysis. He introduced ELK ecosystem, how ELK ecosystem work with Google Technology ecosystem, and what’s the further direction on data analysis, his "Steven Jobs" presentation style attracts audience in his topic. In Q&A phase, so many audience showed great interesting on this area.

Thanks for Google sponsor great place, snack, drink and cakes during coffee break, participants used this time slot to know new friends, asked question to speakers, did further discussion on Google new technologies. Most of participants were not attracted by cakes, but were attracted by Google videos. Open, diversity, creative etc. Google engineering culture likes a magic, every participant stuck in the front of the TV shows.

Golang expert Jin Zhu shared his personal true story why he gave up ruby language, and switch to Golang. The interested part is not he used Golang, it’s every product is implemented by Golang in their company. Also, he introduced Goland's advanced usage, and his Golang open source project, warmly welcome programmers join him.

Magic Xie, the key person of GDG Hangzhou, he carefully prepared a lot of video and cardboard, YES, that’s VR experience and sharing time. He introduced JUMP, Oculus, and Nokia OZO, the impressive part is: the organoleptic is electronic signal, and will be interpreted by your brain, if we fake the same electronic signal, and transport it to your brain, you will feel in a real world. It’s amazing, the cardboard is for the visual, every participant imaged that if all senses be faked, how the world will be, it should be really VR. funny, see, :p

Thanks for Mary Ma, Kiki Liao and Eric Zhang great preparation and facilitating.

Appendix:

• This event on Google Developer Site
• G+ Event
• Pictures could be found here.