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 MobileSchool is now ready for you… and the Italian Developer can improve their knowledge through it!
Now the subscriptions are open!
Subscribe yourself to one of the stages of the Mobile Revolution; the tour starts in October from Palermo (Sicily) and get to Milan in various stages to disseminate the mobile knowledge.
You can learn more from the website that speaks about it, such as RabenBlog (visible at: http://rabenblog.eraben.com/w/index.php/difficolta/saputello/sviluppare-applicazioni-android-con-mobileschool/) that wrote a beautiful post about Francesco Lo Truglio and his role in the MobileSchool!
and now, what do you want to do? Do you want to stand outside and watch this revolution? Join it!
http://www.mobileschool.it

Hey guys!

Have you an idea for a mobile app? or do you want to learn how to make a mobile app?
Join the challenge and explore the mobileschool contest, the first traveling mobile school!

All ready for May 24 when at ITIS Vittorio Emanuele III (via Duca della Verdura, 48 – Palermo) starting at 3 pm will take place another GTUG (Google Technology User Group) event called “News from Google I/O 2011″.

We will talk about last technologies and solutions shown in the biggest Google I/O event in San Francisco on 10-11 May. Here the full program:


News from Google I/O 2011
Case study on Chrome Webstore: developing tools and best practices
Palermo GTUG members developed Android apps showcases
Introducing Android Tablet “ASUS Eee Pad Transformer” by Infograf sas company
Google Jobs: recruitment and applications collection
Question time







Main speaker will be Claudio Cherubino from Sicily, Developer Programs  Engineer at Google’s offices in London, he works on Google Apps API and on  Google Apps Marketplace.

He worked also as software developer, technology  evangelist, community manager, consultant, technical translator and several open-source projects got his contributes like MySQL, PHP,  WordPress, Songbird and Voldemort Project.

To see his developer profile just click here http://code.google.com/intl/it-IT/team/.
We will also show our current project and our ideas about all mobile world, especially about the growing Android world that is getting more importance day by day among middle-low profile mobile users.
We also will talk about our starting project referred to our mobile schools in all Italy and all its mobile developing opportunities.
Free entry.

This event is organized by Palermo Google Tecnology User Group in partnership with ITIS Vittorio Emanuele III.

This year at October in London will be the first barcamp around android technologies and developing!

A two day barcamp and conference exploring all aspects of developing for Android mobile devices.

In these two days we will speak about Android consolidated technologies and about the new devices such eReader, Tablet and more regarding the new developing tools for Android like Ruby and more…

Follow us to learn more or visit the official website at http://www.droidcon.co.uk/

This year on May 10 in Palermo, at the Institute “Vittorio Emanuele III”, for the first time in Palermo there will Ikai Lan (Google Advocate), who will talk about Google App Engine. Who is Ian ikai?Read his profile here.
This event is powered by GTUG Palermo in partnership with “Sviluppo Italia Sicilia“.

We thank the Incubator of Ideas of the “Vittorio Emanuele III” for logistical and organizational support.
Register at the event and read the day’s program!

The Florence GTUG has published the slides of the Google App Engine Intro event, the meeting will be in 29 April with the introduction to the GAE basics , by Alberto Mancini, and with DataStore and BigTable , curated by Luca Masini.
While on 6 May, Florence will host GTUG  Ikai Lan a Google Developer Advocate, May 6, the event will be replicated in Palermo on May 10: Booking is open.
Read more at Palermo GTUG official website

This month for the monthly GTUG Palermo meeting, we show to you how to develop an Android Applications, with us Massimo Carli author of “Android Developers guide” (the first italian book regarding android developing) a showcase with the developers (including me) ..and much more..don’t miss the meeting at the Mondadori Multicenter (Via Ruggero Settimo, 16 – Palermo) when? in April 21 at the 17.30
visit the official GTUG Palermo website: http://sites.google.com/site/palermogtug/eventi/04-2010

Thanks to Roberto Chibbaro, this year we will have a WordCamp in sicily…join us http://wordcamp.it/catania2010/ and submit your feedback, ideas or suggestions!

Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users—built by developers like you—are a huge part of the Android vision. To support you in your efforts, Google launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide awards for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.
visit the official ADC 2 website and take part to the challenge!

On 19 March, the  “Member for Innovation Conference” was held in Catania, this kind of event recreate the large-scale process of a city that becabe “venture capitalists” of ideas on its future.
In the midst of all the presentations there were also GTUG of us, with our founder (Francesco Passantino) who has presented our team of Palermo and Catania!

Below you find the video and the presented paper.