FOWAB #6 – Monetizing Advertising Mobile Era dan Perkenalan Platform Blaast

Acara rutin Forum Web Anak Bandung yang ke 6 telah selesai dilaksanakan. Bertempat di S28 Cafe & Resto hari Jumat kemarin, FOWAB #6 yang kali ini kembali digelar dengan bekerja sama dengan SparxUp menghadirkan tema “Monetizing Advertising Mobile Era”.

Para peserta yang kurang lebih berjumlah 90 orang dan terdiri dari berbagai kalangan menyimak berbagai materi berkaitan dengan dunia mobile dari 2 pembicara utama yaitu Leonard Agustinus – Account Manager Indonesia, Mobile Advertising Google dan Edo Pamungkas – Mobile Platform Manager, Merah Putih Incubator dan satu pembicara tamu yaitu Andri Yadi – Movreak App, Winner of Sparx Up 2010 (Best of Mobile Category).

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FOWAB #6 – Monetizing Advertising Mobile Era and Introducing Blaast Platform

Regular event Forum Web Anak Bandung (Bandung Web Forum) for the 6^th time was held collaborating with SparxUp presenting “Monetizing Advertising Mobile Era”. The event was attended by more or less 90 people from various field, with 2 main speakers Leonard Agustinus – Account Manager Indonesia, Mobile Advertising Google and Edo Pamungkas – Mobile Platform Manager, Merah Putih Incubator and one guest speaker Andri Yadi – Movreak App, Winner of SparxUp 2010 (Best of Mobile Category).

Each speakers talked about the opportunity from developing application for mobile devices, various way in monetizing like paid apps, ad based, application as project or freemium, and which platform/handset to develop such as iOS, BlackBerry, Android up to Nokia and feature phone with high number of users in Indonesia. They also informed about application segments with bright future like social, game, themes.

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Event: Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch Party – Bandung

Launching event of the Firefox 4 browser in Bandung have been accomplished, having previously held in two cities of Jogjakarta and Jakarta, this time the people’s browser party stopped by in Bandung, located at Potluck Kitchen, the event was held on Sunday, May 1, 2011, from 16:00 to 20:00 pm.

For this event in Bandung, besides the welcoming events there were two presentation sessions, the first session was from Gen Kanai – Director of Asian Business Development – Mozilla, Christian Legnitto – Mozilla Firefox Release Manager and Luke Wagner – JaegerMonkey / JS Engine Engineer. While the second session filled by Petshopbox Studio – The Making of Kumi, Faisal Asad – Kumi Papertoy and Yohan – a presentation on the Future of Web App with Firefox and Showcase – Fowab. Before the 3 speakers, Fauzan Alfi also presented and introduced some things, especially about the Mozilla community to the visitors, including about Kumi, Indonesia Firefox mascot created by ‘urang Bandung’ (means ‘Bandung citizen’).

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Event: Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch Party – Bandung

Event peluncuran peramban Firefox 4 di Bandung telah selesai dilaksanakan, setelah sebelumnya diadakan di dua kota yaitu Jogjakarta dan Jakarta, kali ini pesta browser rakyat ini mampir di kota Bandung, bertempat di Potluck Kitchen, acara diselenggarakan pada hari Minggu, 1 Mei 2011, mulai pukul 16.00 – 20.00 WIB.

Untuk acara di Bandung kali ini, selain acara ramah tamah ada dua sesi presentasi, sesi pertama adalah Gen Kanai – Director of Asia Business development – Mozilla, Christian Legnitto – Mozilla Firefox Release Manager dan Luke Wagner – JaegerMonkey/JS Engine Engineer, sedangan sesi kedua diisi oleh Petshopbox Studio – The Making of Kumi, Faisal Asad – Kumi Papertoy dan Yohan – presentasi tentang the Future of Web App with Firefox dan Showcase – Fowab. Sebelum 3 pembicara ini Fauzan Alfi juga presentasi dan memperkenalkan beberapa hal terutama tentang komunitas Mozilla pada para pengunjung termasuk tentang Kumi, maskot Firefox Indonesia yang dibuat oleh ‘urang Bandung’.

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Event Report: HackathonBDG #1

In the middle of heavy rain last Saturday in Bandung, at a café called Potluck Kitchen, HackerspaceBDG held and event called HackathonBDG.

If Yogya has #YKode, although in different format, Bandung now has this event which is planned to be held routinely. HackathonBDG asks anyone to join and work on their developing project or application.

From their official website, they explained that HackathonBDG is one of programs developed by HackerspaceBDG and aimed for whoever want to gather around and work on developing, completing, or creating personal application / project together. Participants of HackhatonBDG are expected to work on personal project / application.

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Event Report: HackathonBDG #1

Ditengah hujan deras yang mengguyur kota Bandung hari Sabtu kemarin, bertempat di sebuah kafe bernama Potluck Kitchen, teman-teman dari HackerspaceBDG mengadakan acara hackathon yang diberi nama HackathonBDG.

Jika Jogja punya #YKode, meski dengan format berbeda, maka Bandung kini punya acara yang direncanakan menjadi agenda rutin ini, HackathonBDG mengajak siapapun untuk bergabung dan mengerjakan aplikasi atau project yang sedang dikembangkan.

Dari situs resmi mereka, dijelaskan bahwa HackathonBDG ini merupakan salah satu program yang dikembangkan oleh HackerspaceBDG dan diperuntukkan bagi siapapun yang ingin berkumpul dan bersama-sama mengembangkan, menyelesaikan atau membuat aplikasi / project pribadi. Peserta HackhatonBDG diharapkan mengerjakan aplikasi atau project yang bukan merupakan pekerjaan utama atau yang biasanya berasal dari klien tetapi aplikasi atau project yang merupakan project pribadi.

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“Hackathon” on HackerspaceBDG

The Bandung atmosphere was quite cold, heavy rain had just flushed the city, leaving a wet soil. However, it was not the case that occurred in a room measuring 10 m x 3 m which contained the developers, who are struggling with their respective deadlines. Some of them were making applications for iOS and some were building a website.

HackerspaceBDG or Hackerspace Bandung is name of the place, and atmosphere of the room is warmed by the spirit of coding to finish the applications that must be completed.

Two of the developers in the HackerspaceBDG room, Yohan dan Asep were two names that may be DailySocial readers are familiar with. Yohan is the founder of Rserve.me and Asep was the founder of Magikube. Despite having their respective studios, now they are working together on a project to develop an application which must be completed within two days.

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“Hackathon” di HackerspaceBDG

Suasana Bandung saat itu cukup dingin, hujan deras baru saja mengguyur kota, menyisakan tanah yang basah. Namun, tidak demikian yang terjadi di sebuah ruangan berukuran 10 m x 3 m yang berisi para developer, yang sedang berkutat dengan deadline masing-masing, ada yang membuat aplikasi untuk iOS ada juga yang sedang menyelesaikan sebuah website.

HackerspaceBDG nama tempat itu, dan suasana ruangan sedang hangat oleh semangat coding untuk menyelesaikan aplikasi yang harus segera selesai.

Dua dari pengembang di ruang HackerspaceBDG, Yohan dan Asep adalah dua nama yang bagi pembaca DailySocial mungkin tidak asing lagi, Yohan adalah founder dari Rserve.me dan Asep adalah founder dari Magikube. Meski memiliki studio masing-masing, kini mereka sedang bekerja sama dalam satu proyek untuk mengembangkan aplikasi, yang harus selesai dalam dua hari.

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Event Review: Bandung Ventures Night 2011

Hari Jumat kemarin, tanggal 8 April 2011 diadakan Bandung Ventures Night 2011, yang merupakan acara Bandung Ventures Night (BVN) yang kedua setelah sebelumnya dilaksanakan tahun kemarin pada bulan Agustus 2010.

Acara BVN kali ini memang agak berbeda, terutama tempat diselenggarakannya acara ini, jika biasanya acara East Ventures (JVN atau BVN) diadakan di kafe atau ballroom hotel maka acara kali ini diadakan di Kampus ITB, Ruang Multimedia Comlabs ITB, Jl. Ganesha no. 10 Bandung.

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The Winners of Agate Mobile Game Developer War (+ Video)

Mobile Game Developer War Event which was held on Thursday, March 31, 2011 yesterday have been accomplished. This event was a final of Mobile Developer Camp event series that have been held for two weeks in Bandung, Jawa Barat – Indonesia.

The event was held by Agate Studios and sponsored by Nokia, featuring 10 finalists from 25 teams of Java-based game developers that previously had been through workshops and selection. 10 teams consisting of artists / graphic designers and programmers were presenting the results of their work, gave demonstrations and answered many questions from the judges.

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