Divided By Screens, United By Meetups

Sohail Pathan
GDG Nagpur
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5 min readFeb 13, 2021
Flutter Study Jam 2019

Hackathons, Study Jams, Tech Fests, Tech-Meetups, and many more are primarily community-driven and founded by a bunch of tech geeks that form a community.

For all the passionate geeks, Google Developers Group Nagpur (GDG Nagpur) has constantly been there to enable them to build their network and foster new skills by bringing up many events and meetups.

The community is led by a group of technophiles, with a motto of “by the devs, for the devs and to the devs!!” having a shared code of conduct by Google to procure a harassment-free and extensive event adventure for everyone and treat them with respect.

GDG Nagpur was inaugurated and started in 2019, and right from the outset, it is continuously helping developers around the globe to prosper in their careers by upskilling their existing abilities. Inspecting the civil intent, the community has attained a crossroads of achieving 25+ Meetups that starred varied technology, and the rest is you better know how the community folks are good at bringing in the discussion even more fascinating.

Due to the pandemic, keeping company with and communicating with people in-person came to be confronting, and nevertheless, we proceeded with commencing many such Meetups online and maintaining real-time conversations on platforms like Slack.

Product Design 101 Meetup Series

Design is the extensively critical aspect and toils as a primacy for a product. This meetup was steered by a 4 episode meetup series, it shows 4 iconic Product Designers, UI/UX Designers, and Interaction Designers from leading startups and companies like Zomato, CleverTap, GojekTech, etc. who talked about and shared their adventures of how they understand the end-user consumer and an individual for whom the product is being formulated.

Episodes Links here >>

Product design 101 Episode 1

The Role of Design Thinking by Faiz Malkani.

Product design 101 Episode 2

Guiding Principles Anyone Can Use by Rohan Mishra.

Product design 101 Episode 3

UX Writing for Beginners by Sadiyah Lasania.

Product design 101 Episode 4

Spotlighting Interaction Design by Naveesh Khattar.

DevFest Nagpur 2019 (In-person)

DevFest India 2020

When it gets to DevFest, how could GDG Nagpur stroll back! As the charm of this event comes from the organizers and our valued tech speakers, who endorsed the event. Carrying the event online exclusively needs extra effort to make the event a more imperial one. GDG in collaboration with WTM Nagpur contributed with 800+ participants throughout the Nagpur region in DevFest India on 16th — 19th November 2020 held virtually through Live Stream.

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hacknagpur 2020

hacknagpur.

Through all those hard times of pandemic, GDG Nagpur resumed activating events to encourage the developers and learners to bestow their proficiency by designating a project on any of the given tracks. Yes!, we are addressing Central-India’s biggest Community-driven Hackathon

hacknagpur. the very first of its kind initiative by GDG Nagpur, in collaboration with 16 local communities and a platform to unleash visionary developers worldwide and succeed together virtually to ideate, innovate and inspire one another and the community. The Hackathon proved to be a big feat and no doubt, this has aided the pandemic-afflicted tech enthusiasts to showcase their mastery, no matter from whichever corner they belong to. In those 5 days, there were an incredible series of sessions by many recognized speakers like Gaurav Sen, Khushboo Verma, Vrijraj Singh and many more, who conveyed their talk on several domains.

Feels like you missed it? watch them here

WTM Nagpur Launch at DevFest Nagpur 2019

WTM Nagpur

“Don’t hesitate, try and keep trying… you’re not alone — we’re all together in this, helping each other grow and create a better future” optimistic lines from Varsha Jaiswal on getting into tech!

Our empowered women’s group, who never stays behind and always steps along with GDG Nagpur! Yes, Women Techmakers Nagpur, has its vital role in the blooming completion of 25+ meetups.

With a series of tech and non-tech Meetups, there’s much more to gain from it. We have a blog series to show you the visions of all the meetups held by WTM Nagpur.

Glance at the blogs and read it for yourself!
Here you go!

1.#IamRemarkable……Because I’m worth it!

Read it here

2.The online safety tools for women.

Read it here

3.Are you conscious of your Unconscious Bias?

Read it here

4.AI: A new gig revolutionizing the software industry!

Read it here

5.Angular: The most popular framework!

Read it here

In a nutshell, we have conducted various Meetups incorporating Cloud Series, Android 11, Computer Vision, and Deep learning with MonkAI, ML Beginner Tracks, Building apps with Firebase, Kotlin, Tensorflow. In drawing things to a conclusion, Meetups like Payment architecture on a cloud platform, Google Hash Code, Scaling Tech-enabled business aboard, and Build actions on Google Dialog flow stimulated novices to excavate the substantial mechanism of customarily used applications.

GDG Nagpur gets oriented with many extra-ordinary people through such Meetups, and we honestly would cherish to converse with the attendees and greet a new bunch of potentials out there as the community has always dug for the talents and skills from the local developers around and offered a platform to cite it and share it with the audience. Get ready to step out and contribute back to a better world and culture by staying behind the mask as we are slowly adapting to the new normal.

To know more about all the latest trends in technology and events happening around! Get involved in our community at https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-nagpur/

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