Firstly, good work on raising the call for a GWT community! Quite agree it's sorely needed. Trying to emulate what the rails community have achieved may be a bit ambitious, but at the very least it would be great to have GWT people connected.
GTUG is a great start and has some smart folks in attendance (even Googlers, on occasion). I actually gave a talk a while back on a project of mine that used GWT & AppEngine fairly heavily - see http://www.dontstopthesignal.com/2010/08/my-presentation-at-sydney-gtug-august.html for slides and video. In a previous role I ran a project where we used GWT. Garry Miller, who runs GTUG, is an awesome resource on all things GWT. If you're not familiar with Garry he's founder of sumwise.com, and they are doing some some very interesting stuff as they attempt to build a next generation spreadsheet product. They were at Google I/O this year showing off what they've been doing. Garry's spoken at GTUG in the past about some of the things they've done (like using GWT to get the ANTLR java library to run natively in the browser, for example). He's also a great guy and very accessible, and usually pretty keen to talk shop. For what it's worth, apart from side projects, I've run commercial projects where we used GWT to build rich, interactive javascript 'widgets' that could be embedded on third party sites and could be embedded and instantiated using a Google Maps-esque API. Happy to grab a coffee in the city to chat about that if you're interested. Hit me up on e-mail or @startthesignal. On May 18, 1:19 pm, David Pinn <[email protected]> wrote: > I rub shoulders with a bunch of Ruby folk, amongst whom there is a > real sense of camaraderie and community. They get together to code, > drink beer, go on Rails camps, etc. For them it's a face-to-face > social experience, not just an on-line one. As a GWT developer I feel > left out. > > Is there a GWT community in Sydney, Australia that I have somehow > failed to encounter? If so, please post details so that I can > participate. Are you a GWT developer in Sydney? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
