Last Friday I went to DevFest Brasil (in Portuguese). Since Google won’t promote Google Developer Day anymore, the Google Developer Groups (former GTUG, Google Technology User Groups) are promoting DevFest. So, these events, instead of being backed up by a big company, are from community to community. I recognize the hassle that is promoting these, and I think the people from GDG-SP (São Paulo), GDG-BH (Belo Horizonte) and GDG-GO (Goiás) did a great job nonetheless.

I just uploaded the slides of my talk in DevFest Brasil. See link on this page (if you’re on desktop, it should be on the right, if you’re on a smartphone, it’s at the bottom). It’s exactly as I presented. Later today or tomorrow I’ll add some presenter notes or some screenshots of the hands-on part.

Edit: just see the talks page

This year we won’t have Google Developer Day. Instead, Google Developer Groups are organizing their own events called DevFest. These are pretty much like Google Developer Day with some extras. For instance, in GDDs, we didn’t have codelabs with hands on, just 1h (approx) long talks about a variety of topics Google related.

One other thing that changed are the speakers. On GDD, all were Google Employees or invited by Google. On DevFest, the speakers are from community. There are some Google employees as well, but anyone could submit a talk, so I did it. When I saw the schedule, my talk wasn’t there, no big deal, there are a lot of great talks, mine wasn’t chosen, no problem. I would go to the event in any way. For my surprise, there was an error when publishing the schedule and, in fact, my talk is in.