GarageGeeks Blog

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”,
the GarageGeeks invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C CEO

Dr. Jeff Jaffe is Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium. In this role he works with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, and membership, and the public to evolve and communicate the W3C’s organizational vision.

The event will take place on June 14, Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon at 19:30

The World-Wide Web was created as a platform for information sharing decades ago. In the interim it has grown to become the platform for commerce, education, entertainment, and collaboration as well.

People have contributed proprietary enhancements to achieve this enhanced platform. Ultimately, the world has a common platform only if key platform elements are open and standard. The World-Wide Web Consortium is focused on a variety of technologies and domains including: video, ubiquity, accessibility, social networking, cloud computing, society, and linked data to ensure that the next generation platform is as open and innovative as the current Web

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with other.

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

You are invited to a special post-Kinnernet 2010 GarageGeeks party.
This time we have invited Kinnernet participants from Israel and aboard to join us.

Sunday, 2 May 19:30
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon

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In GarageGeeks fashion, we will have beer and light snacks on the event, but only if you bring some with you.

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC
Photo credit: Ron Shoshani (”Ronsho“) gave a ONE TIME single permission to the use his image for the event invitation

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Craig Mundie, Chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft Corp., reporting to CEO Steve Ballmer. In this role, he oversees one of the world’s largest computer-science research organizations…, and is responsible for Microsoft’s long-term technology strategy.

The event will take place on Monday, April 12, 20:30 at Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with other.

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Hi all, we just got this cancellation information
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Adverse weather conditions in Washington DC, have made it impossible for Vint Cerf, Google Chief Evangelist to travel to Israel for his planned
commitments. At this time we are canceling all events including Garage
Geeks. Vint is as disappointed as we are and will be rescheduling his trip.
As soon as we have dates you will be the first to know. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. At Google Vint is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company.

in our series “meet the Industry leaders

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet
Jimmy Wales: Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation

Max Levchin: Co-founder and former chief technology officer of PayPal. founder and CEO of Slide.

The event will take place on Thursday, October 22,  at 21:00
GarageGeeks HQ, Hapeled 40, Holon at

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks drink and meat to share with other.

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”: GarageGeeks hosting Universal Music Publishing

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet
David Renzer, Chairman and CEO of “Universal Music Publishing” the largest music publisher in the world.

The event will take place on Tuesday, October 13, Garage HQ, Hapeled 40, Holon at 20:30

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks drink and meat to share with other.

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”: GarageGeeks hosting the Huffington Post”

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event,  to meet
Arianna Huffington, co- founder and editor-in-chief  of the “Huffington Post” one of the most influential internet newspaper in the world.

The event will take place on Monday, September 21st , Garage HQ, Hapeled 40, Holon at 20:30

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks drink and meat to share with other.
Please update the wiki (wiki.garagegeeks.org) which stuff that you bring to drink and eat.

in our series  “meet the Industry leaders”:
“GarageGeeks hosting Microsoft”

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event,  to meet
* Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft corp.
* Moshe Lichtman, President, Microsoft Israel R&D center, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

The event will take place on Tuesday , june 30th , Garage HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon at 9:00 pm

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks drink and meat to share with other.
Please update the wiki (wiki.garagegeeks.org) which stuff that you bring to drink and eat.

“GarageGeeks hosting AOL”
The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event,  to meet

Tim Armstrong CEO and Chairman  of AOL
Greetings:
Avichay Nissenbaum  Country Manager, AOL Israel

The event will take place on Monday , june 29th , Garage HQ, Hapeled 40, Holon. at 7:30 pm

This invitation is for one person only and is not transferable.
Please confirm your participation at http://garagegeeksaol.eventbrite.com and bring a printed copy of this invitation to the event.

GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi excited to host Allen Hurff, the Senior Vice President of Engineering at MySpace.

The event will take place at the GarageGeeks HQ at 40 Hapeled St, Holon on the 24/3 at 20:30.

Allen Hurff will discuss “Open Platform” + “Open Stack” + “OpenSocial”:

MySpace’s evolution thru “Open” and the road ahead. Since it’s inception, MySpace has been a place for embedded widgets. In 2007, MySpace helped to form OpenSocial with Google, Yahoo, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, and many others to extend beyond the simple functionality of the embedded widget to a platform that is more deeply embedded into the ecosystem of social networking at it’s core. In early 2008, MySpace released it’s MySpace Open Platform (and Developer Platform) based on OpenSocial v0.5. MySpace spent 2008 evolving it’s Platform while also working to evolve, spec, and release several updates to the OpenSocial Spec. MySpace also spent 2008 working with the “Open Stack” community by implementing and often times directly contributing to; oAuth, OpenID + OAuth Extension, Portable Contact, Activity Stream Spec, OpenID UI/UX Working Group, and XRDS-Simple.

Don’t forget to update wiki.garagegeeks.org with food/drink that you will bring.