Grady Laksmono

I’m a Google Ambassador and a President for the ACM Student Chapter at Cal State L.A. I called an officer meeting for about a week ago to discuss ACM business matters, and we came to the point for planning the topic that we want to bring for the first ACM general meeting for Fall 2008.

We’ve had several topic suggestions. Jimmy suggested if we could have the Microsoft Student Partners (who’s in fact are the Vice-President and the Secretary) to talk about Windows 7, but they were not ready. So since the Google Android first cell phone will be released on October 22, 2008, so I suggested if we could talk about the Google Android. We agreed.

I was about to prepare the presentation, and was looking for a Google-ish templates, and wondering if I could find it from the Google Docs. It was the first time I created a presentation using the Google Docs. From my first experience, there’s one thing that I really like about Google Docs is the ability to search and attach a video from YouTube into the presentation without having to upload it.

Today, we have the first ACM general meeting for Fall 2008. After waiting for a couple of minutes, I realized that the class is packed with about 30+ students!

I started the presentation by introducing myself, and then I showed the Android demonstrations videos. The first two videos were the demo by Steven Horowitz at Google I/O, and the last one is the advertisement video on the T-Mobile G1.

After the presentation, I briefly explained about Google Android and the way to get involved. I also mentioned the Android Developer Challenge, showed sample applications, and mentioned the application Market Place.

And then we had an open forum and sharing session. Someone asked on the languages that is used to create an application in Android. Steven shared about the Microsoft Imagine Cup, and I shared about the Google Code Jam. We also discussed about various competitions such as the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contests (ACM ICPC), Google Ideas, and ProgFest.

Free pizzas and sodas were served. Thank you Steven and Sassja for bringing them to the meeting.. Thank you Jimmy and Irvin for helping me taking pictures..

{ Rahul (Left) can’t wait any longer, and Dapo (Middle) is excited about Android }

{ Desai is also excited about Android }

{ The Android Presentation }

{ I was showing the Android videos }

{ I was explaining on how to contribute to Android }