GDG DevFest Voronezh: virtual kittens, conversations with the column and the Mannequin Challenge

The Voronezh community of Google Developer Group, which was already seven years old in November, gathered for the fifth time at the GDG DevFest Voronezh conference. The conference lasted two days: the first was devoted to reports and speeches, the second to the “iron” workshop.

First, let's see a short video of how it went.

Bonus: Mannequin Challenge at the conference.

Day One: Theory

The first day was spent visiting our co-organizers - the Voronezh State University and the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Those who are often at our conferences already feel at home here.

While the equipment was being set up, fairies were flying around the room and suddenly thick green thickets grew. The guests did not miss the opportunity and recorded everything .

Guests also did not miss the opportunity to take pictures with the conference symbols.

Success was used by puzzles, technical tasks (also original puzzle), and, of course, virtual beasts, for which a special thank you to Project Tango.

Immediately after the opening words of the organizers, two GDEs captured the scene: Zviad Kardava, Google Developer Developer: IoT, and Denis Neklyudov, Google Developer Experts: Android.

An interesting fact: in total in Russia there are now four developers with the title of GDE. T. h. At our conference made 50% of these experts of the country!

Denis and Zviad talked about augmented reality with Google Project Tango, showed it, demonstrated the work of the “smart assistant” Google Home.

Any demonstration is remembered, first of all, by incidents. An interesting excerpt from the Google Home demo.

- Okay, google. Who is the president of Russia?

- The current president of Russia is Vladimir Putin.

- How old is he?

- Kim Kardashian is 36 years old.

Following Denis and Zviad, our own smart home expert, IoT guru Nikolai Khabarov, came on the scene. Together with Nicholas, we moved from Tango and augmented reality to Daydream and virtual reality.

We all know about the bottlenecks of most IoT solutions. The absolute majority of them are tied to the availability of Wi-Fi, and they refuse to work without a network. Zviad Kardava returned to the stage to share a recipe for solving this problem - the Web Bluetooth API. In theory, such decisions will make the smart home more reliable. How with this in practice? We are looking for an answer in the speech of Zviad.

"Many of you have heard about the Internet of things, many of you know the Internet of things"
Many of you, perhaps, are the Internet of things. #DevFest_VRN

- Pasha and Titanishu (@Titanishu) December 3, 2016

We have a tradition - in recent years we have been discussing watches at DevFest. We look at what is happening with the market, what opportunities appear for developers. This year, the tradition was supported by Denis Neklyudov.

"I got phantom calls not only in my pocket, but also on my wrist" #DevFest_VRN

- Pasha and Titanishu (@Titanishu) December 3, 2016

By the finale of the first day, we had a presentation on the front end. Alexander Kasheverov, DataArt expert on web technologies, told how to make friends D3.js with Angular frameworks (both versions) and Polymer.

When the reports ended, it was time to tell what kind of “secret announcement” was indicated in the conference program. Elena Fedorova, HRM-director of DataArt in Voronezh, announced the opening of another large international community in our city - Women Techmakers. The goal of the movement is to help girls find themselves in IT, provide the resources and knowledge necessary for this, create a platform for sharing experiences.

To subscribe to the announcements of Women Techmakers Voronezh meetings, send an email to wtm.vrn@dataart.com .

Day Two: Practice

On the second day, 50 developers gathered as a guest of DataArt at the IoT workshop, which was conducted immediately by two top experts: Zviad Kardava and Nikolai Khabarov. Participation required a laptop, programming skills and a desire to change the world for the better.

And we prepared a whole mountain of various iron, which could be used for our projects.

We deliberately did not set absolutely no framework and timetable. In the morning, the developers came to visit, got all the necessary devices and got to work - each implemented their own ideas.

For help, you could contact one of the experts.

Participants at work.

As a result, presented a sea of ​​cool projects: homemade "smart watches", "smart lock" for the refrigerator, game controller, fire alarms and much more.

At the end of the workshop, participants received gifts, including devices that were used in projects. Two projects were consulted by FRIA experts.

Not without the final general selfie. Self-stick was not found, so the ranks of the participants closed very tightly.

Thanks to all who participated in the DevFest. See more interesting about the conference in social networks on the hashtag #DevFest_VRN and in the personal blogs of our guests. Photos can be viewed on Google Plus , and all videos on YouTube .

Many thanks to our organizers - DataArt, Voronezh State University and PMM faculty - and our partners: Motorro studios, Creative Science team, FKN VSU, Broccoli, Downtown Voronezh media portal, Headhunter job search portal, and STOLL business magazine , LikenGo advisory service, RIA Voronezh news portal, IT My Job Circle job site, the IIDF venture investment fund and Google.