Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group

The Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the GooglePlex in Mountain View. Our meetings will always be free and open to the general public. However, we may have to limit attendance based on interest and the size of our meeting space. So, early RSVPs on this meetup group are encouraged to ensure your spot at upcoming meetings. Please see the "About" page for more information.

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Past events

  • Google+

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    The Google+ project makes sharing online more like sharing in real life.6:00 - 7:00 Networking & Light Dinner7:00 - 7:15 Welcome and Announcements7:15 - 8:30 Google+ Talk by Timothy Jordan8:30 - 8:45 Q&ABioTimothy Jordan is a Developer Advocate at Google working on the Google+ project.

  • Fusion Tables by Kathryn Hurley

    Thu, 7 Apr 2011, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    6:00 - 7:00 Networking7:00 - 7:15 Announcements7:15 - Fusion Tables by Kathryn HurleyVisualize your data with Google Fusion TablesGoogle Fusion Tables offers a unique and easy way to upload, store, visualize, and share your data. This session will walk you through all the steps to use Fusion Tables in your own applications.

  • Flash on Android by Steve Chin and Andre Kruetzfeldt

    Thu, 3 Mar 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

    6:00 - 7:00 Networking & Food7:00 - 7:15 Intro and Announcements7:15 - 8:00 First Speaker8:00 - 8:45 Second SpeakerSteve Chin, author of Pro Android Flash and Andre Kruetzfeldt from Adobe will be speaking about Flash on Android.More details coming soon.

  • WebGL

    Thu, 3 Feb 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

    Our topic in February will be WebGL. WebGL brings 3D graphics to the Web by introducing an API that closely conforms to OpenGL ES 2.0 that can be used in HTML5 canvas elements. Find out more about WebGL, what it is and what it can do through examples and demos.Our presenter will be Gregg Tavares, who wrote most of the excellent has been in the video game industry for most of his life with shipping games from Apple II, Atari 800, C64 days up to PS3 and Xbox 360.

  • Caching in the Clouds: Applying Ehcache and Terracotta to Cloud Deployments

    Thu, 6 May 2010, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    Abstract:Caching in the cloud is both a more important problem and is harder to solve than usual. CPU and I/O is lower, storage is slow and a database may be very slow. Fair resource allocation is not guaranteed, reliability and safety guarantees are opaque and there are proprietary rather than open APIs. Restrictions on multicast and even socket creation significantly curtail many approaches.

  • Google Apps Marketplace

    Thu, 8 Apr 2010, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    The Google Apps Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps. Installable apps are easy to use because they include single sign-on, Google's universal navigation, and some even include features that integrate with your domain's data.The Marketplace was just launched on March 9th during a Google Campfire One event.

  • March Meeting: Topic TBD

    Thu, 4 Mar 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

    We will be meeting at the normal time in the usual place in March. If we get someone from the Google Buzz team, that will be the topic in March. Stay tuned for updates!Agenda *6:00-6:50pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google *6:50-7:00pm Announcements *7:00-8:30pm TBD Speaker(s) talking about some Google TechnologyFinally, our members are encouraged to take advantage of these other Silicon Valley GTUG resources: *Facebook Group

  • Using PHP on Google's App Engine using Quercus and Java

    Thu, 4 Feb 2010, 02:15 - 04:15 in Mountain View, United States

    6:15 - 7:00 pm Networking7:00 - 8:30 pm Main Presentation8:30 - 8:45 pm Q & AQuercus is Caucho's implementation of PHP in Java that was originallydesigned for running PHP applications on traditional applicationserver stacks. Google's App Engine offers a Servlet engineenvironment, which allows Quercus to run PHP on this unique cloudplatform. This talk will show how Quercus works in general and withthe App Engine.

  • Google's Search Future

    Thu, 7 Jan 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

    We will be meeting at the normal time in the usual place in January. The topic will be the new search features announced on December 7th. The main ones being real-time search and a slew of new mobile search features. Agenda[list]*6:00-6:50pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google*6:50-7:00pm Announcements*7:00-8:30pm New Google Search Functionality[/list] Please stay tuned.

  • December Meeting: Topic TBD

    Thu, 3 Dec 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

    We will be meeting at the normal time in the usual place in December. The topic is yet to be determined.

  • November Meeting: Google Health

    Thu, 12 Nov 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

    Please Note: We will be meeting one week later than normal at the usual place in November. The topic will be Google Health. We had to move this topic back one month from October to November in order to avoid conflict with a Major Health Conference. More details coming in October.

  • October Meeting: Topic TBD

    Thu, 8 Oct 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    We will be meeting at the normal time in the usual place in October. The topic is yet to be determined.

  • September Meeting: Topic TBD

    Thu, 3 Sep 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    We will be meeting at the normal time in the usual place in September. The topic is yet to be determined.

  • Google Health and/or Google Voice

    Thu, 6 Aug 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    Important Note:We are working on speakers for one or both of these technology areas for our August 5th meeting. If you would like to present on one of these topics or can put the organizers in touch with someone else that can, we would appreciate it greatly. Thanks![divider]Announcement: GTUG CampoutUntil we have details for our August meeting sorted out, we will use this space to announce the first ever GTUG Campout coming up the weekend of August 7-9. You can read all about it here.

  • Google Wave Talk by Seth Covitz

    Thu, 2 Jul 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    Seth Covitz, a Wave Developer at Google, will give a technical developer-oriented Google Wave talk. As always, we can make time for a few lightning talks of 5 minutes or less during the evening. Naturally, we will be giving priority to Wave related lighting talks for this meeting.Agenda[list]6:00-6:45pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google6:45-7:00pm Announcements7:00-7:30pm Google Wave Demonstration7:30-8:30pm Wave Technical Talk by Seth Covitz[/list]

  • Android 1.5 SDK

    Thu, 11 Jun 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Mountain View, United States

    Note: This is a joint event being cross-promoted with the Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup. We do ask that all people planning to attend RSVP here. This will be the only RSVP list submitted to Google Security the night of the meeting. Thanks! Googler Dan Morrill will be covering the new Android 1.5 SDK in June. We had to move it back a month to allow Dan to focus on Google I/O preparations in May.

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