Android Developer Day in Bangkok ;-(

As I know what happened in Japan in June 2009, I was so excited to join Android Developer Day in Bangkok today. I took some of my staff and excited to meet developers, learning new technologies etc.

Actually the one in Japan in June was not “Android Developer Day”, it was “Google Developer Day” so there were some more topics, not only about Android.

Anyway, the fact excited me a lot was that in Japan Google gave away free android phones to every developers who joined the event. I expected it would happen in Bangkok as well.

I’ve been member of CodeAndroid and GTUG-Bangkok for a while, and there are not much information about this event, so I was thinking that they don’t have enough devices to give away, so they might want to hide it from public who just wants to get free phones.

Well, there were no one from Google, there were no even banner or registration, we wrote our email on a piece of paper, so what was the pre-registration on the website? what was that?

Well – ok about free phone, but the thing made me feel so disappointed is that they told us that “Google guys are coming 17:00 today”.

What?

Why no Google guys there? Why did they setup the meeting 13.30 to 15.00, and actually it was over nearly 17.00, just before Google guys show up?

Maybe I did expect too much, but I thought it was user-group meeting (seems not like the one google organized), so the main guy must talk some, which I missed his session at #BarcampCM2.

There were no discussion, the guy from SIS or HTC or whatever, someone just talk and ask developers to answer what they want to develop. It was like just stealing ideas from developers. Well, I brought my staff and they spent whole afternoon, do they know I still pay for them? I could buy new android phone for the cost.

Anyway, it was fun to talk to @sugree, @tewson etc on twitter even we are in the same room, and @kowito was making people laugh… etc, meeting geeky friends is fun anyway, so not bad on this point :-)

And thank you guys for being my translator on twitter :)

I see GTUG in Malaysia or Singapore are a lot more active. I know there are many good developers in Bangkok, we should go on our own user-group stuff, not stick to a companies who wants to use developers.

By the way Tokyo GTUG Night #5 is happening soon, 9th Dec, 2009. We can do more small user-generated meetings like that. As we have regular #Beercamp but on it we are focusing on BEER… wanna do something without beer.