Comments on: Google G-Mauritius Day 9 in the news

By: avinash

avinash — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:28:35 +0000

Yeah. You’re right Patrick. [Incidentally, the guy/girl didn't ask the question verbally -- rather, he submitted the question to an online pool of questions.]

By: avinash

avinash — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:25:49 +0000

Some people told me they were told about the event by the Board of Investment. Personally, I was contacted by someone working at Google.

By: Patrick Ng

Patrick Ng — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:44:38 +0000

During the conference, someone asked a really bizarre question: “Were we going to receive training certificates at the end?” This is bizarre for two reasons (i) the conference was not a training course and (ii) we already had received more than a mere piece of paper: the Googlers were sharing their knowledge with us! Once more, lorsque le sage montre la lune du doigt, l’imbécile regarde le doigt…

I think the person was right to ask the question. He/She had something on his/her mind. It takes a lot of courage to stand up and ask a question in front of a crowd. Besides, we all know that there is no such thing as a stupid question. I’m sure you told that to your students when you were teaching at the MCCI and U of Mauritius, right? And I’m sure you tell that to those who come to your Linux courses, right?

I, too, have asked questions which some would consider stupid, but I did not care. I would be the stupid one leaving a conference or whatever and not having had my questions answered. A good analogy would be a shy guy who is too chicken to ask a girl out thinking she would say no. She could say no, but what if she would have said yes but the guy never asked? Wouldn’t he be missing going out with who could be the woman of his life?

By: JT

JT — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:23:00 +0000

im sure that will be very beneficial for our little ile moris

so how did you guys get an invitation to this forum??

By: Vishal

Vishal — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:58:49 +0000

Google is just too great. Till now i have been exploiting only adsense and i am satisfied. not to tell quite satisfied ..at least some of my basic expenses are catered

By: avinash

avinash — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:46:49 +0000

I’m not sure I understand your comment Andy.

By: Train in Europe

Train in Europe — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:04:12 +0000

Training certificates at the end, saying I missed the point, what is Google again?

By: avinash

avinash — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:15:14 +0000

Thanks.

I loved writing those tweets as well. This forced me to focus more on what was being said, to look up for URLs and to rephrase everything under 140 characters. And, in some ways, that felt liberating compared to writing pages and pages of drivel (re: most “reseach” papers)

By: Web Design Bureau of Mauritius

Web Design Bureau of Mauritius — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:42:43 +0000

Actually Mauritians are lucky to have such conferences especially from Google. Here in France it would have been like this: taking 2-3 days off just for travelling, about 300€ for train/air tickets, and some more 500€-1000€ for participating. A whole month’s salary for a well off engineer if his/her company doesn’t cater for him/her. Added to that are travelling and food expenses.

The other thing is that you do not have thousands of persons at the conference which lets you get more concentrated and closer to the subject.

For the “paper” issue, this is simple Mauritian certificate diktat… people just think about going around saying “I’ve been trained by Google and I have a certificate to prove it”. This also shows that they are not acquainted to Google’s training system. All can be done online for the Google Adsense Authorised Consultant as well as the Google Analytics Authorized Consultant.

Good ending quote BTW. Really appreciated your tweets during the conference.

By: Yashvin

Yashvin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:16:40 +0000

pas truv mwa ditout

lol