GDG Ekiti State University

Explore the power of 3D printing!!! When Laura Palmaro was 10 years old, she woke one morning to find that the central vision in her left eye had all but disappeared. She was not ill and had no genetic issues—it was completely out of the blue. When she was 14, the same rare condition struck her right eye, and she began her freshman year of high school legally blind. Suddenly she was forced to depend on other people to read everything aloud, from school assignments to menus. The toughest part, according to Laura, was losing her sense of independence—and not knowing when or how she would get it back. Laura has since adopted technological solutions to her vision challenges, using a combination of screen-readers and magnification software to read, work and more. Now a program MANAGER  at Google, she is following her passion, helping Chrome and Chrome OS teams make their products more accessible. “Technology has truly transformed my life,” she says. “Assistive technology can tear down ...

For the last 10 months, multilingual users around the world have flocked to the  Google Translate Community  to help improve their language(s) on Google Translate through translating and validating common phrases. Since launch, we've seen some amazing contributions, from Kyrgyz speakers who are getting us closer to adding their language to Google Translate, to Bengali speakers who organized 80 translate-a-thon events, significantly increasing translation quality for their language. Translate Community: Google I/O Challenge (May 26 - June 5, 2015) Now, we're challenging  all Google I/O attendees (onsite and offsite!)  to represent your language(s) during the Translate Community: I/O Challenge running from May 26 to June 5, 2015.  Our goal is to reach over 5 million total contributions  during the challenge. You can make meaningful contributions in just a few minutes, and remember that all contributions matter—we encourage you to spread the word in your ...

You're specially invited to  Google I/O Extended Ekiti State university. Date: Thursday 28th - Friday 29th May, 2015. Time: 10:00am prompt Venue: Computer Engineering Lab, Ground Floor, Faculty of Engineering, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Register @  www.bit.ly/gioeksu About Google I/O: Google I/O  is an annual  s oftware developer-focused conference held by Google in San Francisco, California. Google I/O features highly technical, in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more. Google I/O was started in 2008. The " I " and " O " stand for input/output, and " I nnovation in the  O pen". The format of the event is similar to that of the Google Developer Day. Google I/O Extended 2015 (Ekiti State University)  is directed towards creating a network of soft...