The San Francisco Android User Group

The CyanogenMod project

June 26, 2012 · 6:30 PM
Yelp

You asked for it, and we delivered!

Steve Kondik (a.k.a. Cyanogen), along with Chris Soyars and other members of the CyanogenMod team, will be in town for the Google I/O, and they offered to swing by and tell us what they are up to.

They promised to give us a brief history of the project, tell us how they got here, about where they are going, and then switch gears and do a Q&A session. I suggest you come prepared with questions! I know that I have more than a few. This should be fun!

The venue, food, drinks, and giveaways will be provided by our sponsors!

The doors open at 5:30pm to allow enough time for the check-in process, but the main presentation starts at 6:30pm. Guestlist will close at 12pm on the day of the event, so please be sure you sign up soon!

My thanks goes out to all of you who requested this meetup as well as Max Walker and Chris Soyars for making it happen!

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Aleksandar Gargenta

Awesome! I really enjoyed learning about CyanogenMod project and meeting the team behind it. Thanks guys!

0 · July 22
Bard Fetler

Turned away at the door. Looking forward to seeing the slides.

0 · June 29
Max Walker

hey guys - the video from this event is coming early next week. In the meantime though, we recently filmed an interview with Chris Soyars from the CyanogenMod team on the CM project, where it is, and where it's going. You can check it out here: http://mrkn.co/uugtd

0 · June 28
Ryan Schultz

The talk wasn't as technical/in depth as I had hoped though. I enjoyed the meetup, and I would attend future meetups of this type.

0 · June 27
Jack kwok

I was turned away at the gate even though I had RSVP.

0 · June 27
Amrit Sanjeev

great session

0 · June 27
William Jenkins

Presentation was a little dry, but that was just the nature of the topic and people involved. The venue worked for me, but I do understand the frustration of the "RSVPs" that didn't get allowed in.

0 · June 27
ʀɣαɳĵ

looking forward to seeing the video!

0 · June 27
Riccardo Fiorentino

This presentation was inspiring for hackers and I think interesting to most of the audience. I'm a designer but appreciate what they're doing and enjoyed having the opportunity to hear from them about their project. I've used a version of their OS and it's very fast and solid. They're doing good work, and on their own time!

0 · June 27
Simon Waddington

Got turned away downstairs at 6.40p. I appreciate this is a free event kindly hosted by Yelp and I was late - I'm okay with late comers places being given away to those who were on the wait list. From what I heard there were still places available upstairs, but maybe we had too many people for the room anyway - I guess there are fire codes.

0 · June 27
Doug May

A number of logistical snags and some general confusion, but an awesome opportunity to get a look inside some incredibly valuable work being done for the community by a great team. There's hope for my original Droid!

0 · June 27
Matthew Johnson

I was amazed at how many technically savvy people did not know how to use a microphone: one even waved it back and forth in front of his face while speaking instead of holding it steady at a good distance. The slides for the presentation were well done, but the speaking style of the speakers (e.g. falling intonation on each word of a phrase) made it difficult to follow instead of easier to follow. But I did finally learn why Markana's camera demo code worked fine for them but failed on my phone, as Cyanogen explained that the implementation of the Camera API code was undocumented and proprietary -- therefore different bugs for each phone model.

0 · June 27
Calvin Liu

Great Event! Thank you Marakana and Yelp! Kudos to the Cyanogen team.

0 · June 27
Thomas Doggett

A little unfocused but still very informative and fun. I loved finding out just how normal the team was: self-taught tinkerers.

0 · June 27
Michael Portuesi

Could not attend, I was turned away at the door despite having confirmed several weeks in advance.

0 · June 27
Nobuya Sato

The door was meant to be close at 18:30, wasn't it?

0 · June 27
A former member

The sad part is there was plenty of seats left. I noticed at least a dozen. It was definitely a door problem. In the future, someone should stay at the door for late arrivals, IMO.

0 · June 27
JP

'I think people may have forgotten the phrase "First Come First Served"'

Apologies for not RTFM.
Oh well, at any rate, may I suggest to post on Fun Cheap SF next time. http://sf.funcheap.com/

(Developing on Android since M3-RC37)

0 · June 26
Kimo Crossman

I think people may have forgotten the phrase "First Come First Served" It was a free event with sponsored pizza and beer. The free video will be online. It was not the best meetup I have gone to it was mildly interesting, the slides will be posed I'm sure. Of course it is a pain to get there and not get in but that happens in life sometimes people.

Get there earlier next time! IT WAS FREE get over it. My two cents.

0 · June 26
Michael Portuesi

I was also turned away at the door arriving at 6:30, despite having signed up for this event months ago. If Yelp is going to give away my seat I'd like to be notified in advance, so I can save my time for something else. Thanks for listening.

0 · June 26
Suyash Joshi

I was turned down by Yelp too. Yelp really sucks at this and poor job by the organizers, atleast they should be the one turning people away or giving them reasons. Can't belive I drove all the way and came so far for this event and couldn't even make it in. Lesson learned!

0 · June 26
D D

How can Yelp turn people away when they should be notified that 378 people signed up? What's the point of signing up then??? I ponder... BTW, Yelp has the most notorious security guards!!!

0 · June 26
Simon Waddington

Ditto - got stuck at work and was 10 minutes late. My guess is they had spaces and filled them with people on the waiting list, since I was late that is fair enough - my experience with Meetups is that there are frequently up to 50% of RSVPs that don't show up and don't cancel their RSVP so it is reasonable to let in others if you are late.

0 · June 26
Prasannarupan Sivagnanasooryar

Sasa.. appreciate if you could arrange a bigger place to host a rare presentation like this. I came to the gates and was turned off saying no space available even though I have registered for this event almost two months ago. I hope you would post the video recording of this presentation soon.. thanks

0 · June 26
JP

Somebody downstairs at the gate is telling ppl they're at capacity? Can somebody go down and let people in that RSVPed?

0 · June 26
Stephen Aghaulor

Rvsp'd and was turned away. Thanks to all those who didn't rsvp.

0 · June 26
Mario Viviani

Hope my nickname has updated to the real name I set yesterday..

0 · June 26
Jeanne Darmon

Thanks Rob. See you at Yelp! :)

0 · June 26
Rob Nikzad

@noel, yes we will be recording the event and publishing it within a week or so.

0 · June 26
noel guzman

Will there be a web link for slide deck..Do you folks plan to record this event. I believe the Android Community will benefit from this Quality Content... cheers

0 · June 26
Rob Nikzad

@Jeanne, the location listed above (Yelp) is accurate.

1 · June 26
Jeanne Darmon

Somebody please confirm the location of this mtg. Thanks!

0 · June 26
Evelio Tarazona Cáceres

@Bob O'Brien I think you just have to display your name in Meetup.com as it appears in your id, and your apostrophe is being displayed

@Doug May that notice was posted October 23, 2011

0 · June 26
A former member

Can't attend. United has me flying all over the country. I'll be lucky if I get to SFO today.

0 · June 26
Bob O`Bob

I am certainly not going to drive all the way to SF only to find that meetup's inability to display an apostrophe causes me to be excluded. But more importantly if my friends who use pseudonyms everywhere but on their government ID are not welcome, maybe I don't want to support this group after all.

0 · June 26
Doug May

Should we ignore that little note that says the location was changed to Square?

0 · June 26
Bob O`Bob

please explain the demand in pre-meeting email from Rob Nikzad which said "Update your meeting handle" (to reflect name on ID). HOW would such an update be accomplished?

0 · June 26
Ron Arons

So is the meeting still at 706 Mission or someplace else. If the latter PLEASE post new address here as well. Thx

0 · June 26
Alex Lee

sorry, I don't know how I accidentally delete the location. Put it back to Yelp now.

0 · June 26
Alex Lee changed the location to Yelp

June 26
Alex Lee removed the location. It was Yelp

June 26
Justin Schauer

Will we lose our place if we show up late? as I work, I won't be able to make it at 5:30, but was still planning to show up around 7.

0 · June 25
Jayson Hill

Wish I could make it, but I don't get in San Francisco until late Tuesday night

0 · June 25
Tim Wrobel

The CM team does much work bringing the latest Android OS to older/newer devices. For example, the Original Motorola DROID was never intended to run Android 2.3+, but the CM team has made it happen. Not only do they bring the OS, but they revamp the entire thing bringing new features, and customization which users are not use to seeing. They're truly a great team of developers.

0 · October 18, 2011