Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup

Meetup Reviews

Reviews from
Monthly Android Technical Session on Wednesday Aug 25, 2010

Meetup Rating
3.5012

Attendees
173
very nice talks :) but seating is too limited, and w/o a speaker/mic, could barely hear in the back of the room
— Android Shogun
I don't really care for repeat presenters. Two of the three talks were by the same people who presented last month.
— Doug Stevenson
Unfortunately my experience was not very good. There was not enough seating for the number of attendees, and it was uncomfortable to stand. Sitting on the floor was clumsy and made it difficult to see the slides. Standing in the back of the room I had difficulty hearing the speaker and reading some of the slides. I do not believe this particular venue at T-Mobile is an ideal site for these sessions.
— Azad Bolour
Interesting discussions on mobile ads, optimizing battery life and AR.
— Mike Demler
Very good talks and great people
— Frank
Battery life presentation excellent. Venue is very crowded, too small for size of group.
— Larry Badagliacca
Reviews from
Silicon Valley Android Developers Monthly Meetup on Wednesday Aug 11, 2010

Meetup Rating
4.0016

Attendees
150
Speakers need to speak up (sound system is bad, accents hard to understand), and do more than read their slides. The food arrangements were disruptive. You need to arrange for plates, cups as well as pizzas ahead of time.
— Barbara Stone
... nicely done. Thanks for time and effort to pull these together!
— Jeff Manning
Jason presentation good but very unpolished. Kulicov presented a product not available for android.
— Larry Badagliacca
People, please refrain from taking the 2nd plateful of pizza while others were still standing in line to get the first one. As we all knew, pizza ran out pretty quickly and the last few guys (including me) did not get a single slice. Even our speaker Jason didn't even get a chance to get one slice. Please show some consideration next time :)
— Android Shogun
Google's presentation excellent -- like always --- the other two presentation I think were not very useful for me
— Karl Pohl
Good group, very tech focused. A lot of bright minds in the room.
— Kemp Mullaney
Late start....but other than that it was very educational and I met some cool people!
— Vidan Gjozev
Reviews from
Monthly Android Technical Session: AR, NDK, Ads on Wednesday Jul 28, 2010

Meetup Rating
4.5027

Attendees
178
It was really good for the AR part. But NDK talk is too high level and inMob doesn't seems to be a technical session at all.
— Henry
Good presentations, particularly NDK. Why can't presenters have a means to advance slides themselves?!
— Larry Badagliacca
The presentations were outstanding, especially the first two.
— Kaamel
I prefer more tech talks, more deep for the technical perspective. Showing demo and code snippet will be best.
— Tao Xie
All the presentations at this meetup were quite impressive. I particularly enjoyed the augmented reality session and would like to explore it further.
— Sameer Sayed
will be good if we can do something like Alameda meet group does......like porvide some hands on sessions so we can get real experience. Thanks.
— Anu Bhagat
I especially appreciate the presentation about the NDK from Yusuf Saib, T-Mobile USA.
— Christoph Hartmann
I liked it. Particularly the AR and NDK parts. I had problems hearing and following the Ads part.
— Rick Kwan
AR and NDK were interesting, but the ads presentation didn't belong in the technical meeting. Things like that would fit in better in the other half of the meetup.
— Doug Stevenson
good line up of speakers
— dev
Ash's presentation is great.
— Qing Gao
AR was very interesting, NDK I've already worked with and Ads was very uninteresting.
— Frank Maker
I would really like Ash to do that 10 part series on AR apps. I found that really interesting.
— Parminder Kaur
Talks were very informative. All 3 sessions were good, I liked AR and NDK more useful technically. Support given in Q&A by Dan from Google was very valuable too.
— Anoop Balakrishnan
Some redundant as I do NDK developmentm however, different useful bits.
— John Feagans
Really very informative topics. AR presentation is really good. NDK presentation is also good. IMO, NDK still need more work to seemlessly integrate with Android tools. InMobi is great in the global market, I really want to explore with InMobi for my app soon.
— Venkat Danda