GDG Dar: Official launch of the Google Apps Developer Challenge

Greetings All,

We are happy to announce the launch of the Google Apps Developer Challenge it's a call for all you talented and creative developers to design and build original applications for Google Apps and Google Drive.

All you have to do is build and submit an amazing application in one of these categories:

Enterprise / Small Business Solutions
Social / Personal Productivity / Games / Fun
Not-for-Profit: Education / Water / Food & Hunger / Health

A winner will be chosen for each category, for each of the 6 regions around the world taking part in the challenge -- 18 prizes in total.

Prizes will be distributed as follows; all prizes are in USD:

Round One: All teams that make it to the semi-finals in each category in each region will be awarded Chrome books.

Semi-Finals: 1st prize in each category in each region will receive $20,000.

This means that there will be a total of 18 grand prize winners

Key Dates

August 24th: First round submissions due

September 13th: Semi-Finalists announced

October 25th: Updated Semi-Final Apps re-submitted

November 12th: Winners announced

An official launch organized by Google Developer Group Dar es Salaam (GDG/GTUG Dar es Salaam) will be held on Saturday, 28th July, 2012 from 10am to 12 noon at the KINU Co-Creation Hub , located on the 1st Floor ,245 Conservation House, Morocco Junction close to Airtel HQ. Please checkout the following Google maps link showing the location of KINU, http://goo.gl/4WJDD

Let us know that you are attending by filling in this form GADC registration form

Learning resources

Here are some links to learning resources, to help you get prepared