{"id":6109,"date":"2018-11-28T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2021-09-03T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T23:30:09","slug":"gdg-devfest-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/gdg-devfest-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SkySwitch Sponsors a GDG DevFest in Bacolod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At SkySwitch, we value innovation and camaraderie\u2014and at Bacolod\u2019s DevFest this past weekend, over 100 participants experienced both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/01-All-Attendees-768x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>DevFest 2018 Attendees in Bacolod, Phillipines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DevFest is an initiative created by the global Google Developer&#8217;s Group (GDG). This year, <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/2018\/10\/share-your-devfest18-story.html?linkId=57784691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the GDG community has hosted over 500 DevFests around the world<\/a> in over 80 countries in an effort to learn, share and build new things together. Each DevFest brings together tech-savvy students and professional developers all within a local community to engage in coding sessions and other informative talks about Google and its products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GDG&#8217;s Bacolod City Chapter hosted their DevFest on November 24th, 2018, and&nbsp;SkySwitch was proud to be a gold sponsor of the event in continued support of students, local developers and the IT community. The city of Bacolod, also known as the Philippines&#8217; City of Smiles, is home to our Service Delivery Center that includes Technical Support, LNP and Software Development teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/03-Skyswitch-Team-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SkySwitch team supporting DevFest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to sponsoring the event, some of our SkySwitch developers were there to showcase our unique technologies. A couple demonstrations included overviews that explained the capabilities of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/sms-directory-bot-trial\/\">Sallie the SMS bot<\/a>&nbsp;and the benefits of using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/skyswitch-integrates-reachuc\/\">our<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/skyswitch-integrates-reachuc\/\">ReachUC&nbsp;integration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/05-Dev-explaining-Sallie-the-SMS-Bot-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developer explaining how Sallie the SMS bot works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a great time supporting this group of forward-thinking individuals and look forward to seeing what next year&#8217;s DevFest will have in store!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At SkySwitch, we value innovation and camaraderie\u2014and at Bacolod\u2019s DevFest this past weekend, over 100 participants experienced both. 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