We had a good turnout last night.  Dan Frankowski and Max Harper gave and enthusiastic presentation on using Google App Engine to host thier Minneapolis based startup application.  Dan [at blueshiftlab.com] and Max [at blueshiftlab.com] are both super smart and gave a good, realistic talk about the pros and cons of hosting an application on Google App Engine.

They were gracious enough to share thier slides here: http://blog.blueshiftlab.com/2009/11/intro-to-google-app-engine-tc-gtug.html.  Be sure to sign up at http://www.blueshiftlab.com/ for announcements (especially when their new desision helper app is released in the upcoming weeks).

Twin Cities Google Technology Users:

 

We will be talking about AppEngine during our November meeting next week!  Dan Frankowski will be presenting a high level overview of AppEngine, how to get started working with it, and will provide a demo of an AppEngine app.  NOTE: The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday instead of the usual first Tuesday due to conflicts with Election Day.

 

Topic:              Google AppEngine Overview 

Presenter:          Dan Frankowski, Blue Shift

Date:                     WEDNESDAY November 4, 2009

Time:                     7PM – 9PM

Location:              Medicom Digital

                                212 Third Ave. North Suite #295

                                Minneapolis, MN 55401

Google Map:      http://bit.ly/7vfq5

Please RSVP here: http://tcgtug1109.eventbrite.com/

 

 Pizza and sodas will be provided courtesy of Medicom Digital!

 

Please forward this email on to others who might be interested in attending.

 

Thanks!

 

Corey

Take the survey here :https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tvopohjTf6QYWGmYW3HZZ2g

If you know someone who could talk about either topic in
depth, please have them contact me.  If we can’t find an expert in the
area, we can divide up the presentation and everyone can do a little
research on a specific angle and come and present what they found.

Next Meeting:

Topic:                    Google Chrome

Date:                     October 6, 2009

Time:                     7PM - 9PM

Location:              Medicom Digital

                                212 Third Ave. North

Suite #295

                                Minneapolis, MN 55401

Google Map:      http://bit.ly/7vfq5

Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities

TC-GTUG is looking for corporate sponsors to provide food/drinks for
upcoming meetings.  For the price of pizza and drinks (usually under
$100), you get 10 minutes of time at the meeting to talk about your
company and products.  Contact me if you are interested.

We have settled on 2nd Moon Coffee Cafe as the meeting place for our first one.

We are planning our first meeting for June 30th, 7PM. Here is a map of currently interested people. Send me an email if you would like your marker added to this.

Welcome to the start of a new Technology User Group in the Twin Cities. The Google Technology Users Group will be focusing on new, and old programming tools, techniques, gizmos and gadgets made or sponsored by Google.

Please visit us on http://groups.google.com/group/tc-gtug for further info and discussions for now.