Hey you guys, I’m here at DevFest HCMC.

First, the Internet connection is very slow. Looks like someone is downloading videos or films using DevFestHCMC’s line.

All documents for DevFest HCMC are available for access here; Twitter tag for this DevFest is *#devfesthcmc“; and if you’re a developer, join DevFest live chat here.

The topics are about: Shindig, OpenSocial, Hi5, Friendster, Google App Engine,…  Check it out here for more information.

But the topics just came after a long long time waiting. Jason won the first point when he points out that it’s b/c of Vietnamese time. “Cao su” or something, right? Anyway, I, Kevin and Thomas did have a great time preparing BarCamp marketing airforce.

Our airforce haha. Thanks Rick for your papers :

I look silly with Thomas glasses. Taken by his MacAir. How jealous!!!!!

I see many interesting people here. Jason Costa, technical developers managers from Google, Pamela and Vinoaj from Google too. And ofcourse Jason Vu, our beloved co-ordinator of this DevFest. Ah did I forget Pattrick Chanezon, his job must be the best job in the world, Google evangelist or OpenSocial Avocate, right? (Please correct if I’m wrong).

Pattrick

Pamela under Vietnamese star

Quang Nguyen and Jason Costa

Google is hiring. ©Dlead

This one should be interesting.

©Dlead

Guys from eXo Platform: Jeremi Joslin and Tungdual Benjamin Mestrallet. Everyone is speaking French accent here. They are talking about eXo WebOS and eXoSocial.

Benjamin is talking about eXoSocia.

Live from eXo in Hanoi

Guys from Friendster. They promised us a lot of money.

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Guys from Garag3 in Singapore BJorn Lee and Justin. They did a nice presentation about Garag3 at the end of DevFest. If only we had some kinds of funds like that in Vietnam

Bjorn and Justin. Tony is quiet behind :)

Bjorn with his Apple jacket

Guys from Asaleo: Duc Ban, Nam Tien, Van Nhan, Si Nguyen and Nghia.

Tiến, Ban and Nghĩa

BarCamp people: Kevin, Thomas, Rick, Timen (he already left), Tony (sorry b/c you’re sitting a bit far away haha), Anh Hung, Duy Le and ofcourse me (@chipro at Twitter)

Rick, Anh Hung, Duy Le and Kevin. Wow, is Kevin sleeping?

Hung and Pamela. © Dlead

Quang Nguyen from Vina Consulting.

He just pretends to sleep

We have a nice buffet here but I forgot to take some pics. KhanhLNQ should be sorry b/c he left too early.

Buffet ©Dlead

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They talked about Google Map API after that. As Kevin said: “They save the best presentation for the last”.

Google Maps Coverage in Vietnam. ©Dlead

And ofcourse we have DevFest T-shirts.

Fighting for T-shirts? ©Dlead

Put your name here if you’re at DevFest.

Thanks Duy Le for all the pics.

My comment: Well, even though both Jasons (Costa and Vu) seem to be quite happy about this DevFest, I personally think that it’s not as successful as they expected. Restricted registration, then many developers who registered didn’t show up. There were 300 ppl supposed to be there but less than 200 ppl were. That’s Vietnamese style. An important point to be noticed for our upcoming BarCamp.

Moreover, I guess most attendees yesterday couldn’t understand thoroughly the whole story, including me. Vietnamese developers’ English skills are not that good.

Anyway, it’s just my random thought. And everything else was very good. Congrats you guys, you really did a good job.

Tags: devfest, devfesthcmc, Google