We regret to announce that our Hackathon program which was inteded to be hosted on June 7 to 9 at Bahir Dar is postponed to unknown date because of final examination period in this month. We ask apologies for the inconvenience and will let you the exact time once we are ready.

@GDGAddis

GDG Addis wishes to all Muslim brothers and sisters a happy Eid-al-Fitr Holiday. Ed-Mubarek!!

@GDGAddis

DevFest is back ! 📣📣📣
https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Addis/events/262076561/

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Coral updates: Project tutorials, a downloadable compiler, and a new distributor → https://goo.gle/31dUj6t
Cloud Scheduler, a fully managed cron job service from Google Cloud → https://goo.gle/2Wgmkqk
Scan BigQuery for sensitive data using Cloud DLP → https://goo.gle/2WjxESs
Chrome 76 DevTools → https://goo.gle/2HZLky3

@GDGAddis

He is called Nathan Damtew, the Founder of BeBlocky. BeBlocky is a gamified learning app that sets out to teach children the basics of computer science in a fun and interactive way. It will help them develop new ways of thinking and advances them in valuable skills. Nathan has integrated Augmented Reality in his amazing product using ARCore. He uses Android for the Mobile App and Firebase for the Authentication System. He was one of our amazing speaker at DevFest 2018. see More about BeBelocky at https://beblocky.com/.
Nathan is exhibiting his remarkable product at ICT EXPO 2019 at Millinum Hall. Go and visit his works and also experience AR.

#InnovateEthiopia
#IctExpo2019
#GDGAddis

Hanamariam Yeheyis, the founder/CEO of ZalaTech, is another outstanding exhibiter at IctExpo 2019. She has developed a web and also mobile based application called ArifEvents. ArifEvents is the first dynamic Ethiopian event portal. They build the technology to allow anyone to create an Event and easily Integrable with social media's to reach audiences easily in Ethiopia. Hanamariam is also Organazing Committee at GDG Addis and Women Techmakers Addis (WTM Addis). Learn more about her product at https://arifevents.com/ and https://zalatechs.com. Don't hesitate to visit her at the IctExpo.

#InnovateEthiopia
#IctExpo2019
#GDGAddis

Eyob Yirgu, Abel Tilahun and Nahom Nigusse are core software engineers at Merkato Online (https://merkatoonline.shop/home/one), online commerce service provider in Ethiopia. They have featured Android X for Mobile App, Firebase for backend and Angular 7 for Web App.

#IctExpo2019
#InnovateEthiopia
#GDGAddis

✨✨Google I/O Extended Addis Ababa 2019 is Happening Saturday Next week!✨✨

Make sure to register at - https://forms.gle/QKMycfADSteK6L9c9

Date: Saturday June 15, 2019
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: 5th floor new library building, 4 Kilo College of Natural and Computational Sciences

Entrance: South Gate - https://goo.gl/maps/WDnpeaSkEetxx83C9

We have top tech industry experts speaking and parallel codelabs sessions in the afternoon

Project showcase registration link - https://forms.gle/3Gmq3XxdivrFyEV76

We look forward to seeing you at #IOExtendedAddis

Graphics Design credit goes to Surafel 👉 @Surajava

✨✨Google I/O Extended Addis Ababa 2019 is Happening Saturday Next week!✨✨

Make sure to register at - https://forms.gle/QKMycfADSteK6L9c9

Date: Saturday June 15, 2019
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: 5th floor new library building, 4 Kilo College of Natural and Computational Sciences

Entrance: South Gate - https://goo.gl/maps/WDnpeaSkEetxx83C9

We have top tech industry experts speaking and parallel codelabs sessions in the afternoon

Project showcase registration link - https://forms.gle/3Gmq3XxdivrFyEV76

We look forward to seeing you at #IOExtendedAddis

Amazing Experience at #IO19ExtendedAddis. Thanks for coming!!

Thanks for coming to I/O 2019 Extended Addis event! You can find all related posts using the hashtag #io19ExtendedAddis on facebook and twitter.

Here are all-in-one pictures:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wRg6LvF3zSr2eDKW7

INVITATION TO APPLICATION!
The YALI Regional Leadership Center East Africa is keen to reach marginalized young leaders, many of whom have limited access to internet and such opportunities.
These include: young women, persons living with disabilities, but most importantly, young leaders in rural areas.
The requirements are as below:
Are 18 to 35 years of age at the time of application submission,
Are citizens and residents officials one of the following countries: Burundi, Central African Republic. Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,
Are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.,
Are eligible to receive any necessary visa to Kenya, and
Are proficient in reading, writing, listening and speaking English.
The application window will be open on June 17 to July 1, 2019 on the RLC website here.
yalieastafrica.org

TL;DR 161 | The Google Developer News Show

Moving Android Studio and Android Emulator to 64-bit versions → https://goo.gle/2IQxbSY
Are you up for the challenge? Get Google Cloud Certified in 3 months → https://goo.gle/2FjJtCw
On a quest: Learn GKE security and monitoring best practices → https://goo.gle/2Fo5JuY
AI Platform Notebooks now supports R in beta → https://goo.gle/2Y1biXz
Chrome 76 Beta: dark mode, payments, new PWA features and more → https://goo.gle/2IsvkVy
Improving Security and Privacy for Extensions Users → https://goo.gle/31ILJNe

@GDGAddis

Learn Kotlin for mobile, cloud, and multi-platform development. Hadi Hariri and Florina Muntenescu give us a sneak peak of Kotlin/Everywhere.

Our local Kotlin/Everywhere event will be hosted on July 27, 2019 at AAiT. See you there!

@GDGAddis

✨✨Google I/O Extended Adama 2019 is Happening Saturday Next week!✨✨

Make sure to register :
https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Adama/events/260800209

We have guests from GDGAddis and From Tech Community Leaders

We look forward to seeing you at #IOExtendedAdama #GDGAdama

We are excited to be a partner with GEBEYA to coordinate the African Developers Conference event which is going to be held on July 5th and July 6th, 2019 at UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). We will host "Building Amazing Application using Flutter & Firebase (Live Code)" session. Learn more about the event at https://conference.gebeya.com/.

Have you not registered yet? Please click here at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-developers-conference-afridevcon-tickets-59428358821 to secure your spot and be part of this historical conference.

@GDGAddis

'We regret to announce that #Afridevcon, unfortunately, has been postponed to some future date in the next 3 months. The postponement is due to unforeseen internet blockages. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to greeting you in the coming months once rescheduled. For questions please contact us: conference@gebeya.com' , Gebeya Team.

TL;DR 162 | The Google Developer News Show

Google Pay and PayPal expand their integration → https://goo.gle/2Lq0ui8
App Engine updates → https://goo.gle/2JblbvK
Google at CVPR 2019 → https://goo.gle/2RDR0Bf
WebAssembly brings Google Earth to more browsers → https://goo.gle/2LnBGrb
Security Crawl Maze → https://goo.gle/2IR1laa

@GDGAddis