GDG Buea
http://gdgbuea.org/
The Google Developer Group Buea ( GDG Buea ) is a #techosystem of electronic enthusiasts and technically-minded hobbyists which grooms hackers, entrepreneurs and researchers by creating an anti-authoritarian culture where Google's products are employed to solve local technical problems. Our services come in the form of seminars such as Hour Of Code for Secondary/High Schools, Google Summer Of Code Meet-Ups for University Students, Google Cloud Developers Challenge Code labs for freelance developers, Android & Polymer Hackathons, etc.
HISTORY
GDG Buea kicked off by having the its organizers be the first participants in the 2013 Google Summer Of Code from francophone Africa and got to document code for open source organizations like BRL-CAD, OpenMRS and Gnome in Mountain View, CA. In October 2013, they worked with GDG Yaounde and the Google Student Ambassador for the Higher National Engineering School to encourage over 200 students to participate in the Google Cloud developers Challenge. GDG Buea presented at talk on Open Source Development at the at the Open Collaboration Lounge during the 2013 Barcamp Cameroon to inspire their peers to go beyond writing code to documenting code. After launching the 2013 Google Cloud Developers Challenge (GCDC) by organizing Code Labs where various teams submitted apps, the TranSearch App was selected for the finals of GCDC 2013. To grow more techies using Google's technologies locally, they partnered with lecturers from local Universities like Catholic University Institute Of Buea and University Of Buea to organize weekly Hours of Code where students ameliorated their coding skills and become excellent Software Engineers. Finally, GDG Buea sensitized over 700 students of the University Of Buea and its administrators about student opportunities at Google during the Google Open Day. In 2014, we encouraged girls to participate in the 2014 Google Summer of Code program and two of our girls got selected for the 2014 GSoC program. We also worked with the Department of Computer Science during the Computer Science For High School workshop.
DEVELOPERS
Developers are individuals that have made substantial contributions (hundreds of lines of code) to the website project during and after the Polymer Hackathon in November 2014. Participation and contributions are graciously appreciated and credited in following. As an aside, the Game of Thrones character nick names are just for fun and general happiness.
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Isaac Kamga
nick: Rickon Stark
Content Provider
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Tah Teche
nick: Sir Barristan Selmi
Project Manager, Organizer & Partner tags
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Nyah Check
nick: Little Finger
Content Provider
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Otto Akama
nick: Brandon Stark
jumbutron tag, Coming soon page & Logistics
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Delveri Chick
nick: khaldrogo
Calendar & Organizer tags
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Ngah Kenneth
nick: Tyrion Lannister
Graphic Design
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Mohamed Ahmed
nick: John Snow
Jumbutron tag & Boiler plate
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Kamdjou Duplex
nick: Thormen Baratheon
Navigation bar tag
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Tchuenkam Ulrich
nick: Sir davos
Navigation bar tag
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Moba Melvis
nick: Khaleesi
Partner tag
- Nkweteyim Daisy
nick: Cathleen Stark
Logistics
- Acho Arnold
nick: O'dor
Calendar tag
Cheers,
GDG Buea.