Google TV Hackathon (2.5 days)
- April 20, 2012 · 7:00 PM
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SVAndroid will host a Google TV Hackathon at Google Campus supported by Google TV DevRel
Thanks Google as our sole sponsor.
Note: Pre-registration required. No walk in please!
Agenda
Friday, April 20, 2012 Kick-Off
19:00:00 Happy Hour & Social (With Food)
Team ideas announced in screen. Social time.
19:30:00 "Orientation(Live Stream to Global event)" "Google TV Overview(Live Stream to Global event)"
20:30:00 Team Pitches ~ 1 hour
11PM. Doors close
Saturday, April 21, 2012 Hacking
8:00:00 Breakfast
8:30:00 Short kick-off
10:00 am: Google TV UX Christian Kurzke
10:45 am: Montetization on Google TV Ossama Alami
11:30 am: Google TV on Google Play Paul Saxman
12:15PM Lunch
17:00:00 midway hacking demo session (happy hour) Q&A for rules and qualification or the contest late-night snack
18:00PM Happy Hour with Drink, Snacks (light food)
20:00:00 Developer Hangout
Note: overnight permitted at Saturday night.
Sunday, April 22, 2012 Hacking & Demos
8:00:00 Breakfast
8:30:00 Short kick-off - schedule review
9:00:00 Hack Lunch (on your own) Hack
12:00 Lunch
1300- Teams can begin to submit final apps.
1300-1500 Teams testing Demo night Google TV setup.
15:00:00 snacks - organize for demos apk delivered
16:30:00 "Final Presentations - Panel /drinks&snacks(Live Stream to Global event)"
18:30 Happy Hour Drink, Snacks, and light food.
19:00:00 Award Ceremony
We also plan to make this event a global event using YT Live Streaming and Hangouts, London Android User Group is joining us.
http://www.meetup.com/android/events/52817592/
Google Map and direction:
Content:
- 3 tracks:
- New GoogleTV Apps
- Port existing Web or Tablet/Phone Android Apps to GoogleTV Android Apps
- Multi Screen Apps
- Office Hours
Speaker Bio:
Christian Kurzke
Developer Advocate
Christian is Developer Advocate for the Google Android Platform, and has recently been focusing on Android for Google TV. He is an Open Source enthusiast, committer in the Eclipse Foundation and has been working at the intersection of Linux and Java since the early 90es. Prior to Google, Christian worked in Motorola's Mobile Phone and Settop Box divisions. Before that, Christian was at SUN working on Java for Embedded Systems. He holds a Dipl. Inf. degree from Univ. Erlangen, Germany, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Ossama Alami
Ossama manages the Google TV Developer Relations team at Google, helping developers build applications for the "big screen" in the living room. He was previously the manager for Geo and Commerce Developer Relations teams and has also worked as a Developer Advocate focusing on the AdWords API and Android. Prior to joining Google, he has worked as a consultant and software engineer at Accenture, CSC and Oracle. He calls San Francisco, CA home and in the winter can be found snowboarding in the Sierras.
Paul Saxman
Paul Saxman is a developer advocate at Google focusing on Google TV. He is passionate about immersive, interactive designs, social software, and lean, mean algorithms, and had been working on these since the 8-bit era. Although he's a web developer at heart, Paul's deep interest in revolutionary platforms has brought him to Android and Google TV.
Prizes: For Mountain View, CA participants only.
- Winners:
- from Panel (3): One Sony TV and Two Google IO ticket per team
- New
- Migrated
- multiscreen
- from popular vote (1): Organized by SVAndroid. Cash prize: all ticket sales - direct cost.
Judges:
Blake Krikorian
Blake Krikorian is a co-founder and the former CEO of Sling Media, a consumer electronics company that builds the highly acclaimed Slingbox.
The company was founded in 2004. It was purchased in 2007 by Echostar Communications for $380 million dollars.
Krikorian started his career at General Magic, which created the Magic Cap operating system for mobile intelligent communicators and Telescript, an agent-based network programming language for the emerging electronic marketplace (pre-Internet). At General Magic, Krikorian assisted industry-leading telecom and consumer electronics companies such as NTT, Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo, OKI and Matsushita/Panasonic in creating and defining new products and partnerships.
In 1994, Krikorian co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group, which was funded by Philips Electronics. As group product manager, he built and co-led the team that defined, created, delivered, and marketed the award-winning Velo 1 Windows CE Handheld PC and its associated product line.
Mark Mangiola
Venture Partner, Canaan Partners Ventures
Mark Mangiola joined Canaan in 2001 after over 20 years in operational leadership roles in the cable and broadband industry. Mark invests in communications companies that are transforming the delivery of digital media, as well as new consumer content companies that meld entertainment with interactivity. An advisor to YouTube, Mark has a visionary outlook about how consumers will watch and interact with content in the future, having participated first hand in the early emergence of both cable TV and the Internet.
A super-connected industry veteran, Mark leverages his network to fill key executive positions at Canaan’s portfolio companies and helps them spearhead strategic relationships with industry-leading corporations. Prior to Canaan, Mark served as CEO of @Home Solutions, a division of Excite@Home. He was previously the President and CEO of Positive Communications and an Executive VP at KBLCOM/Time Warner.
When Mark is not thinking about how consumer-generated video will change the world, he is sprinting around a track. A passionate athlete, Mark coaches high-school and college track athletes and never misses a Meet of Champions track meet.
Frank Chen, Andreessen Horowitz
Frank is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he meets with entrepreneurs to evaluate investment opportunities, has a deep diligence on all post-term sheet investment opportunities (including declined opportunities), sources candidates for the talent network, and more.
Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Frank was VP of products at Opsware (formerly Loudcloud) where he helped build and sell enterprise software. Prior to that, he was director of client services at Loudcloud where he ran data center operations for name-brand customers including Fox Sports, Nike, Fandango, and Blockbuster.
He also served as VP of products & UI design at Respond.com, served as director of product management at Netscape and was a product manager at Oracle where he worked on interactive television. Earlier in his career, Frank was also a technical writer for GO Corporation.
This is a not-for-profit event. All the income goes to the event cost (Anything not covered by our Sponsor Google) and prizes for People's Choice award(Well, this is another reason you should attend).
Official site for more details:
https://sites.google.com/site/gtvhackathon/home
Online Participation:
Google+:
https://plus.google.com/100213579863051357900
Twitter: #gtvhackathon
Free ticket for the developers who are taking Google TV seriously:
Are you taking Google TV seriously? Do you have an App can be ported to Google TV? For developer who are, we have 50 tickets to give away for the hard core Android developers.
To qualify, you must be one or more of the following
1 Part of winning team of any Android Hackathon in 2011, including AnDevCamp 2011 by SVAndroid
2 Developer who has built great web, tablet, or Mobile Apps at App Store which can port to Google TV right away.
Note:
If more people qualify, first come, first served.
SVAndroid volunteer team reserves the rights to make the pick solely on our own judgement.
To apply for a free ticket:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdqZGhJb2FQWXhJcU1UYVV0cS1Ec1E6MQ
For the rest, yes, you do need to pay $20. Its your commitment for the 2.5 days event to build something great, not for the folks who just want free food and good presentation.
Registration deadline at April 18, 2012Wednesday 5:00pm. Will take $40 registration fee if there is spot left after the deadline.
Refund: no refund. It will cost $20 more of my time to issue you a refund.
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lawrence
Thanks to everyone for participating!
Here's the page on Google TV blog
http://googletv.blogspot.com/20...
April 25, 2012
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Bernard Wong
Another way to phase Ken's suggestion is that some of us do plan to finish the app/product. It would be nice if we can form a sort of testing group, since we all have GTV now, it would be an easy way to get some initial feedback from each other. A google group, perhaps, as a mailing list of willing testers? I figure that some of us is not comfortable with sharing our demo app at the point, I, for one am not, :( at least, not yet.
https://groups.google.com/forum/...
April 24, 2012
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Allan Phillips
A great experience. .....learned a lot! Good people. Good food. Good support.
April 24, 2012
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JeanCarl
I just posted 40 videos of team pitches, demos, judge feedback, and awards I recorded, in a playlist here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist...Sit back and watch over 3 hours of YouTube videos with your Google TV. ;-)
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JeanCarl
Brian/Bernard: Team #31 (Global Mic) had the concept of a global mic using your phone in a conference environment. Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...Team #39 (TalkHawk), chatted between two TVs, which doesn't sound like what you describe in your clarification. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
I just posted 40 videos of team pitches, demos, judge feedback, and awards I recorded, in a playlist here:
http://www.youtApril 24, 2012
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Ken Nakagama
Possibly for those willing, someone can post apps to a Skydrive or Dropbox and an organizer can email the links. Think it would be useful to play with some of them
April 24, 2012
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Brian Shuman
It was the app that had the image of the globe as its homescreen with images of people on it and the concept was to have your phone take video and sound and use the tv as a way of displaying info about the conference and people in it.
April 23, 2012
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Aaditya
Hi Brian, are you referring to the last demo "TalkHawk", the app for conferencing with friends and strangers as you watch TV?
April 23, 2012
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Brian Shuman
To the team that had the multi-screen conferencing idea, Props! If you would like to continue with the project let me know! (Dev)
April 23, 2012
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Gene Leybzon
Thank you for organising a great event! Was a lot of fun! I told my co-workers about it and they are looking forward for another event like this. Google TV, please give app permission to check what is currently shown TV. There are so much we can do as developers if we just know what program the user is watching.
April 23, 2012
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Bob O`Bob
Next time I think I need to just be a participant. This time volunteering did not go well for me personally and I was not able to participate.
April 22, 2012
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Joseph Wei
Katherine - You did not need to pitch on Fri, just need to have submitted your demo idea on Fri evening in order to be able to demo and compete.
April 21, 2012
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David Cao GDG
#GTVHackathon Live Broadcast through Google+ hangout https://plus.google.com/10021357...
April 21, 2012
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Katherine
Can I still participate in the demo and competition tomorrow if I didn't pitch the ideas on Friday?
April 21, 2012
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David Cao GDG
Find your team photo here:
https://plus.google.com/10021357...If you don't have one, I will take one for you tomorrow, or upload your own!
April 21, 2012
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David H
Team 16 looking for a designer, we have 3 developers (1 android, 2 backend), we are building a social tv experience. Reach me at d h 1 9 8 5 at gmail
April 21, 2012
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Gene Leybzon
Anyone (developers/designers) wants to create an app the is switching channels based on what's popular on Twitter?
If so - talk to me, I am on the front row on the right (where food is)April 20, 2012
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nambi
Looks like I won't be able to attend today evening. Can I attend tomorrow? Is there any special registration happening today?
April 20, 2012
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Ajda Ziadin
:) Great, thank you, I will send it via PayPal. Enjoy your new baby! I can't believe you were about to go to a hackathon when you were supposed to have a baby hehe. Congratulations again!
April 20, 2012
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Nelson To
Dear Hackers,
This is Pitch Night Idea submission.
https://docs.google.com/a/apofa....
April 20, 2012
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Lyn Williams
Yes it will work you can just send me money through PayPal [masked]. Or be on my start up company team
April 20, 2012
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Ajda Ziadin
Would that work? And how can I pay you for the ticket? Thank you so much!
April 20, 2012
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Ken Nakagama
A reminder for anyone still on the way. Bring a coat or jacket. This area of Shoreline is always cold and windy along NASA-AMES
April 20, 2012
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Lyn Williams
ajda please take my ticket I am very interested in creating a video shopping experience
April 20, 2012
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A former member
Going to have to sit this one out since I'm feeling the onset of a massive headache. Someone can take my spot.
April 20, 2012
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Jeff Norman
Ajda- contact Lyn Williams to see if she still has a ticket.
Lyn - congratulations on delivering your baby. Many happy years to you!April 20, 2012
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Ajda Ziadin
Hi! I am interested in purchasing a ticket , if anyone can't make it this weekend.
Thanks!April 20, 2012
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David H
Would be good to see the list of idea titles and submitter, just to double check your project is submitted.
April 20, 2012
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Vinubalaji Gopal
@Nelson does everyone need to register for the ptich night? I am a developer and looking to join a team
April 20, 2012
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Ethan
Anyone driving down from SF tonight? I would really really really really appreciate a ride. Otherwise it will be a really long journey for me... my email is [masked] Thank you in advance!
April 20, 2012
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A former member
Nelson: Reminder? When the heck was the initial announcement?
April 20, 2012
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Brian Shuman
what do you mean by testing environment will be given? do i need to go out and get a flash drive to dual boot linux on my laptop? what will be given specifically?
April 20, 2012
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Nelson To
Just a kindly reminder, the pitch night registration will be close at 5pm Today. If you haven't registered, please do so. Again, only people who have registered in Pitch night will eligible for demo and competition for the prizes.
April 20, 2012
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salim
Thanks for the update, cris. This native linux as the only emulation option is really a show-stopper. I don't want add another partition to my mac. It seems to be such a time-sink now. wish google would have provided a better option.
April 20, 2012
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Bernard Wong
Why don't you try to use the winning to the buy the last ticket from the other winning team?
April 19, 2012
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Alan Carwile
If a winning team has more than two people wanting to go to Google I/O, could an option be to get more Google I/O slots, but not all paid (or maybe even none paid)? Otherwise the two ticket thing could affect team sizes. It's late to suggest this, I realize.
April 19, 2012
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Brian Shuman
will linux development machines be provided? Are we able to use our own machines? How will they know if we have brang code to the event, instead of starting fresh? for new apps, are they supposed to be fully completed in 1.5 days? Any limit on the content in the app? What is the structure of these demos? Are these only on the TV and not a phone + TV app (not multiscreen, unless that is what multiscreen means?)
April 19, 2012
190 attended
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Bob O`Bob
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Ken Matsumoto
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