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OpenSocial Hackathon and BarCamp Hanoi are coming

   Posted by: Chip   in Networking

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For you guys in Hanoi those expressed your jealousy of us after Google DevFest in HCMC and BarCamp Saigon, I have some good news for you today. I’m not trying to make my blog an event blog, but I can’t help blogging about it.

The first OpenSocial Hackathon in Hanoi is coming on Saturday December 13th at eXo Platform SEA Offices (7th & 8th Floors, Thai Ha Building, 11 Thai Ha Street. Dong Da District - Hanoi – Vietnam). The organizers of this Hackathon are noone other than eXo Platform guys (one of the companies who joinedGoogle DevFest Tour around South East Asia) and Jason Vu - co-ordinator of Google DevFest HCM. Frankly, the first Google DevFest HCMC wasn’t as successful as expected, lacked of participation from audiences and not many Vietnamese developers could understand such a long speech in English. But Jeremi promised this time it would be much more exciting with more hacking and less talk.
Here comes the agenda:

•  10:30AM – 11:00AM : Registration
•  11:00AM – 12:00PM : openSocial Presentation
•  12:00PM – 1:00PM : brainstorming + pizza
•  1:00PM – 5:00PM : Coding your openSocial applications
•  1:00PM – 2:00PM : guided walkthrough a first openSocial gadget
•  5:00PM – 6:00PM : presentation of what have been done in the afternoon

As promoted in eXo’s blog, this hackathon is to “help developers to use this new standard and to prepare them to the openSocial gadget contest where there are many prizes to win. It will be also the occasion for Vietnamese social networks to discover this standard.”

Sounds cool lah?? But there are only 50 seats available, so register soon. I wish I could be there to join you guys!! I love everything for free hahaha.

Another good news is Jeremi and Ninh Nguyen and maybe some other guys in Hanoi are preparing for the 2nd BarCamp Hanoi. Dunno when exactly it is but it should be before Vietnamese traditional Tet holiday. This time I won’t miss it. Hope that you guys will fix the date soon so that I can plan for my Hanoi trip. Miss Hanoi so so much!!! And if any of you have any idea for BarCamp Hanoi or wanna help with organizing it, come visit its wiki or simply put down your comment here.

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4 comments so far

Preetam Rai
 1 

thanks for posting this, barcamp hanoi is a good excuse for me to get back to hanoi after years.

2008-11-25 at 1.04 am
QuangMD
 2 

hey, why don’t ping me a buzz on that !

2008-11-26 at 8.48 am
Chip
 3 

@Preetam: Welcome to our corner in the North hahaa.
@Quang: hehehe, ‘cos you’re always invisible. How can I know when you are online?

2008-11-26 at 9.26 am
Jason Costa
 4 

Hi Chip - glad to see posts about this. One quick point of clarification - eXoPlatform is a separate, partner company; not “one of Google’s companies.”

Also - you mentioned that DevFest “wasn’t as successful as expected” - as who expected? From our perspective, DevFest was most definitely as successful as we could expect. It’s always a challenge to put these events on, but the fact that we: had 200+ developers show up, got to see local lightning talks, got to present on 3 different web-based technologies, and got to hang out with the audience more than made it a success. The biggest hiccups we had were intermittent wifi issues (which we have little control over) and language issues (which we need to do a better job of for next time).

The biggest indicator of success is that other local developers took the initiative with very little help from Google to put on a community driven event around a community driven spec (OpenSocial). That’s exciting!

If you’ve got feedback on possible improvements for the next event, feel free to email me directly (jason.c@google.com).

Cheers!

2008-12-15 at 2.07 pm

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