<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div> There is a Google <b>CLOUD</b> Developer Challenge <a href="http://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html">http://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html</a>.<br><br>I think this could be a great chance to get the momentum going , I will participate and we could motivate people to participate in. </div><div><br></div><div>So about the ideas ,I can give a talk on Google App engine (and maybe the cloud API) and the whole contest in general . Having participated( and losing) the previous 2 challenges , I can share some experiences like where I failed(I'll even show the reply from them) .<br><br>So my interests are related to this are</div><div><ol><li><a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a> ,one of the officially supported platforms by Google app engine,<br></li><li>Big Data ,NoSQL and all the new cool buzzwords on databases</li><li>Google Cloud API which I have no experience on at all. </li><li>I could help on how to form a great idea to work on( like how your app should be data driven,what effective ways of using their APIs)</li></ol><div><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="line-height: 17px;">My other Interests are<br><ol><li> Javascript (Nodejs a little)<br></li><li> Python</li><li> Angular.js </li><li> HTML and CSS(Bootstrap)</li><li> Jquery</li><li> REST and REST-ish APIs</li></ol><div><br></div><div><b>Basic things I'd like to learn from these meetups</b></div><div> 1.Setting up a web server in Apache and/or Nginx ; Multiple/single sites ,Control Panels ,multiple languages etc</div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"> </font><font size="2"><b>Advanced things I'd like to learn</b></font></div><div> Setting up BIG DATA infrastructure with redundancy,scalability ,map reduce and distributed systems. Basically I'd to be able to set up and infrastructure that <span style="font-size: small; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">supports data-</span><wbr style="font-size: small; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: small; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">intensive distributed applications</span> server. I think that's problem worth working on.<br> It could be a joint effort.</div></span></div></div>
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