1st Day at Google I/O and some people I'd like to meet

I arrived in San Francisco yesterday for Google’s I/O Developer conference.  I got a student ticket for cheap and a plane flight here and back as a birthday present from my parents.  So today I’ve got two things on my agenda…

1) Head to Seesmic HQ (which is exciting in and of itself) and pick up my iPad I won from them (also pretty exciting)

2) I/O Bootcamp – which is more or less a smaller group of I/O attendees getting together in more lab style sessions.  Hitting the basics of several different subjects when it comes to programming in the Google world.

I’ve looked through the schedule and come up with a plan. It’s really hard to make one since there are SO many sessions that I’d really like to attend.  But that’s life so here’s my schedule

• 2pm-3pm: Writing and Publishing Android Apps
• 3pm-4pm: Google Chrome Extensions 101
• 4:15pm-5:15pm: Android Lab Session
• 5:15pm-6:15pm: Developing a Google Chrome Extension

I’ve also been thinking about people around the San Francisco area I would love to meet in my limited time here. It’s a pretty extensive list

• MG Siegler – headline writer extraordinaire for Techcrunch
• Tristan Walker – awesome biz dev guy for Foursquare
• Ryan Graves – did some work w/ Foursquare now running his own startup Ubercab
• Joseph Thornton – I think he works for Apple, but he’s very mysterious about it (understandable). Regardless we’ve made a good connection on Twitter
• Scoble – what more needs to be said…
• Matt Cutts – head of the web spam team at Google

UPDATE: I forgot two people! Abi Raja is a Stanford student I’ve talked to on Twitter who is working on his own blogging software (I think, though I’m STILL waiting for him to let me use it… . And Paul Stamatiou, who gave me a ticket to Wordcamp Atlanta and I never got to thank him in person for it!

That’s the short list, but in the SF area there are about a million other names I could spout off of people I’d love to meet so I’ll keep it short. So if you’re on the list, thanks for reading, and find me around town on Foursquare or Twitter. If you aren’t on the list but want to meet, then do the same bc I’d love to meet you!