Google Developer Day 2007

Google announced they’ll be holding a worldwide developer day on May 31st, 2007 (you can sign-up now).

The live-streamed event will happen in Mountain View, Sao Paulo, Madrid, London, Paris, Hamburg, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney. During the day, you can meet Google engineers and go through different sessions, learning about such topics as:

• “Developing with Geo: Google Maps, Google Earth and SketchUp”
• “Tools for Better Web Development: The Google Web Toolkit, Open Source and Other Developer Initiatives”
• “Mashups and More: AJAX, Google Gadgets and the Google Data APIs”
  

If you don’t mind the promotion angle (hey, it’s free... I think!), this might be a nice way to learn new stuff.

A small update:

The day itself will vary in format from location to location, but the goal is the same: bring Google’s developer community closer together, share our knowledge, and of course have fun in the process. In the meantime, here are just a few of the Googlers we have lined up across the globe:

• Guido Van Rossum, Google software engineer and creator of the Python programming language (Beijing);
• Chris DiBona, Google open source programs manager (London);
• Mark Stahl, Google data APIs tech lead (Madrid);
• Bruce Johnson and Joel Webber, co-creators of the Google Web Toolkit™ (Mountain View);
• Bret Taylor, group product manager for Google developer products (Mountain View);
• Lars Rasmussen, Google Maps™ senior engineer (Sydney);
• Greg Stein, Google engineering manager and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation (Tokyo).

We’re excited to be inviting everyone. To find out more, and to let us know if you can make it, please visit the Google Developer Day site.