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

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/
https://developers.google.com/drive/

 Google Apps Provisioning API
 Apps Script , Introduction  video

Google Drive SDK. Video from Google I/O.

A playlist of other videos,  http://goo.gl/LwqR8

Visit  http://www.google.com/events/gadc2012 for more information on this.