At Google’s headquarters Saturday, Bosco So from San Francisco and Anil Pattni from Orange County were collaborating on an online social game which would allow groups of kids with diabetes to compete with each other to stay current on their diet and medication. Before this weekend the two were complete strangers.
A few feet away, Palo Alto middle school students Alex Hwang, 13, and Panini Raman, 14, musician friends, were crafting an audio application for easily composing music on a computer. Despite being up until 3 a.m. the boys were back coding at 7 Saturday morning, they reported with evident pride.
And nine time zones away in Munich, Germany, Nils Hitze and a team of software developers were working on a location-based combat game that would use some of the newest features of HTML5, the next big revision of the computer language that supports the Web.
About 170 independent software developers converged on the Googleplex this weekend, pitching tents as they did last summer on the verdant lawns of the Internet giant’s Mountain View campus for a three-day computer coding marathon in which bleary eyes are a badge of honor. What’s different about this year’s camp-out, which ends today, is that it’s global, with other developer teams in Germany, Mexico, Australia and other countries checking in through a video feed while building their own applications.
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