A Brief Detail on Event Stats

A Brief Summary

After two months of planning and the collaborative work done by every members we finally concluded the very first GDG DevFest Session in our city Birgunj. Registration was carried by both online and offline. About 100 people registered via online and 60 via offline. In-spite the keynote was delayed, the event concluded on  time. 

Marking our First Anniversary, each participants were provided with chocolate candy and a Lollipop Stick. 

The hardware demo by Nhasala Joshi added a good impression to the audience showing the empowerment of Women. 

The Session of Amit Agrawal was carried by Samrakchan Ghimire as he was unable to attain the  event due to some personal issue. The navigation with Google session by Keshav Maharjan, which is recently launched in Nepal, gave a quick impression that "a man with google in his hand can't be lost". And the Android Wear Debriefing session by Samrakchan Ghimire made the audience lightened about the aspects of Android and its unlimited features in day-to-day life. 

Yes, we were affected by the SAARCH Summit as well. The Design Sprint Session "Code-Design for Birgunj: Greater Birgunj" has been postponed until next notice. 

Talking about the Impact; this was the very first Google Fest in the City. People really enjoyed the Tech-Story and the Sessions by our speakers. Few interesting ideas and discussion came for Android App and Play store. Some were interested to the Google Start-up Launch program and the interesting part was that they were using it. Few moderators asked us to apply Google Apps for their Business and Colleges. The only thing that was seen odd is the participation of the Girls. Of the total population only 15% of Women Participation was seen at the event. Hope, this figure get increased by next year.  

At the end Wrap-up and thanks giving session was enlightened with the Happy Faces as they received the event participation certificates & the Strawberry Candy. Many more plans and events will be seen by next year. Hope to see you soon. Thanks Everyone.

In-short: the First Anniversary of GDG Birgunj was simply Awesome.

Important Links:

| DevFest Website | Google Plus Event | Git Hub | Picasa Web Album | Blog | Youtube Videos |

GDG DevFest Season 2014, Birgunj

22nd Nov, 9AM onward

Venue: BICCI Hall, Birta, Birgunj

Registration Starts at : 9AM to 10AM

HALL: A

9:00 to 10:00

Google I/O & other related Video Screening 

10:00 to 11:00 

Keynote & Plenary Session by Dipesh & Aman

11:00 to 11:50 

Debriefing Session (Android, Android Wear & App Engine) by Samrakchan Ghimire

11:50 to 12: 30 

Entrepreneurship in Nepal by Amit Agrawal (Entrepreneurship in Nepal: Problem & Solution with Google Tech)

12:30 to 12:40

Tea Break

12:40 to 1:20

WomenTechmakers Story & Android App Development (Hello World); by Binisha Shrestha & Nhasala Joshi.

1:20 to 2:10 

Navigation with Google Map & Mapmaker by Keshav Maharjan

2:10: to 2:45

Lunch Break

2:45 to 4:45

Design Sprint (Code-Design for Birgunj) with BICCI

4:45 to 5:00

Wrap Up: Thanks giving & Certificate Distribution. 

Find More at: gdgbirgunj.github.io/DevFest2014

What happens at Design Sprint?

# People are broken down into groups, and every team is given a persona. In this case, let’s assume it’s a female chef who also runs a cooking show. She’s visiting India, and will be taking along her Google Glass with her. What apps would you design for her to get the best use out of it on this trip?

# Post it notes are distributed to all the attendees. They are encouraged to jot down all their ideas individually, however crazy, on an individual post it. About 10 minutes are spent on this process. Ideas for this case can be along the lines of an app that visually scans food and lists out the recipes.

# The teams then discuss their ideas with their teammates. Together, they grade ideas on a graph as shown, with the Y-Axis representing technical difficulty and X-Axis representing benefit to the user.

# Once they’re all marked out, the teams choose their one idea that they’d like to work on. Typically, this idea isn't too difficult, while at the same time offering a lot of benefit to the user. One such idea  in our case is of an app that makes live video reviews of food possible, which is far simpler to  accomplish as compared to the recipe idea mentioned before.

# The teams prepare prototypes (typically without any coding) to demonstrate their apps, which are presented to all the attendees. 

What are We Planning?

Co[De]sign for Birgunj

Register Now: http://goo.gl/forms/99D3hWWF07