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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

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Israel Amazon Web Services User Group
hosted by Dan Feld, AWS EMEA

Sunday, May 2
18:00, GarageGeeks HQ

Please join us to meet the AWS team, meet other AWS users, and discuss Cloud Computing.

Agenda:

18:00-18:20 – Gathering and networking

18:20-18:50 - Cloud Capability - Why customers are choosing cloud computing? - After 4 years, starting with EC2 and S3, Amazon Web Services now offers 20 different services. What is the motivation of customers who come to Amazon web services? What are they doing with it today?

18:50-19:30 – AWS Customer’s presentations – Some of our Israeli customers will present their business case and how they used AWS capabilities as a solution.

19:30-20:00 – What’s new with AWS?, Closing words

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

During the 2,3 April weekend  were holding a Facebook Application Developer Workshop

We will split into teams and each team will work on a project.
Don’t know how? Don’t worry! All you need is some basic knowledge in , programming (PHP, Python,Javascript) and we’ll help you with the rest!

Graphic designers from all kinds are welcome to contribute their skills.

more details at the facebook event page
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10150120005760014

Crowdsourcing encourages crowds with various expertise to apply their individual talents collectively as a group to create solutions to challenges.
Join us to this session at March 15, 20:00 and discuss about 4 different views on the phenomena of CrowdSourcing.

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speakers:
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* uTest
Presenting: Doron Reuveni, CEO uTest
How online communities are disrupting many industries.
What is the difference between a mob, a crowd, and a community.
A sneak preview of a live demo of a not-yet-launched version of uTest’s software testing platform.

* Waze
Presenting: Yael Elish, VP product and social media marketing.
Crowdsourcing and the use of social and gaming elements to engage users to build a viable service and reach critical mass.

* Yedda
Presenting: Yaniv Golan, co-founder and CTO.
CrowdSourcing and the First Thumbs War - as a creator of a web service, you’d love to have the crowds breath life into your service through participation.
Yet, what happens when the participating crowds have their own opinion about what your service should be like?

* AllRise
Presenting: Dan Rimon, co-founder
AllRise is an online public courthouse where users can sue anyone and charge him with anything.
The crowd debates the case and the crowed decides the verdict.
How they came up with the idea and show examples of some cases that were opened.

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in the spirit of the event, beer will be served if you bring one.
so, bring few to share. sharing is caring.

Like ninjas battling on stage, Bre Pettis and Tal Chalzin will volley projects demonstrations back and forth. From guitar player robots to machines that vomit plastic skulls, the presentation will include a mix of projects they’ve worked on and that have been worked on at the GarageGeeks, NYCResistor and beyond. This presentation will both thrill and repulse you with the possibilities that have recently emerged in the diy hacker technology space.

more information about the event

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 8:00pm

This month we’ll be hosting:

* Simone Brunozzi from Amazon EU, which will give a technical presentation about S3 internals.
* Natan Elsberg from RDV Systems, which will describe how they are using the entire AWS stack to enable 3D real-time collaboration on engineering projects.

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

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Israel Amazon Web Services User Group
hosted by Martin Buhr, AWS EMEA Business Director

Tuesday, September 22
20:15, GarageGeeks HQ

Please join us to meet the AWS team, meet other AWS users, and discuss Cloud Computing.

Agenda:

• 20:30 - 20:15  Welcome and Introduction: Martin Buhr
• 20:15 - 20:45  Cloudy Thinking: Yossi Vardi
• 20:45 - 21:15  AWS Customer Presentation
• 21:15 - 21:45  What’s New With AWS: Martin Buhr
• 21:45 - 22:15  AWS Customer Presentation
• 22:15 - 22:45  Q&A / Wrap Up

more information at http://www.amiando.com/AWS-Israel.html

** Beer would be served (if you bring some..).
** Don’t forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

The GarageGeeks sessions present:

Experiments in Art, Software, Hardware and UX with Amit Pitaru

August 27th, 8:30pm

Like a typical garage geek, Amit splits his nights and days between experimental and commercial work.

In this session Amit will share recent art projects and discuss how they affect his work as software/hardware designer, user experience freak, and (recent) entrepreneur.

*** This is a free event, please bring DRINKS and snacks to share ***
It might get hot without cold beers at hand, and Amit recomends one for better UX

Recent projects:
Sonic Wire Sculptor (see video on top of page)
Rhonda 3D drawing tool (see video and register to dl beta software)
Smashup Dance Project

Not so recent projects:
Bjork Pagan Poetry and more works at http://insertsilence.com

Texts:

PDF on creating games for children with disabilities.
A couple of interviews with Amit here and here.

Bio:

As an artist, Amit develops novel instruments and methods for making music, animation, and dance. His personal and collaborative work with James Paterson has recently exhibited and performed at the London Design Museum, Paris Pompidou Center, Sundance Film festival and ICC Museum in Tokyo.

As an educator, he teaches (on and off) at New York University’s ITP and Cooper Union’s Arts department.

Amit works as a game designer, prototype maker (hardware/software), and user experience designer to selected clients. He’s also a recent entrepreneur (startup to be revealed soon).
Amit was recently commissioned by the MacArthur foundation to publish his research; making everyday software and video games more accessible to children with disabilities. He is also an advisor for the Institute of Play, who are developing a public school that will use game design and game-inspired methods to teach critical 21st Century skills.

One Million Apple devices are in need for Developers

Missed the last Apple WWDC , no worries, GarageGeeks Sessions and iLoop inviting you to GGDS

Join iLoop’s round table discussion and learn about  advantages of being an Apple developer in Israel.
How Apple development scene will change with the arrival of the iPhone?

iLoop Panel Participants:

     * Eyal Redler-  developer of Mellel The Word Processor for MAC OSX

    * Gershon Kagan – iPhone consultant

    * Adi Diamanat – strategic business consultant

    * Sharon Carmel – serial hi-tech entrepreneur

Where: GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

When: August 6    20:30

** Beer would be served (if you bring some..).
** Don’t forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

More about iLoop

iLoop™ is the meeting point of the Israeli community for professional Apple Developers. It is operated as a non-profit organization, sponsored by its community and 3rd parties, iLoop™ is an independent organization and it is not related by any mean to Apple™ formal development activity.

Goals

Our goal is to develop and maintain a strong community of Israeli Apple developers to become a significant contributor or Apple applications, worldwide. By supporting this community, we wish to take part in Israeli success stories related to Apple’s platforms.

The Community

The number of Apple’s developer in Israel is estimated as 200 with a potential growth to 400 within 12 months. iLoop™ has already directly approached 100 developers. Each developer goes through a personal interview where his/her experience is inquired. Once approved, the developer is registered into iLoop™’s database and he/she becomes a member of the community.

GarageGeeks are happy to invite you to a session about: Flight Simulators.

Whether you are a real life pilot or just enjoy playing with your stick, you would love to hear about “underground” trends in Virtual flight and traffic control Simulation going on and meet the people running the show.

We are proud to host Ilan Jonash one of the founders and heading the Middle east and Africa activities of VATSIM (Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network).
We will get in to the scene of the virtual fighters, get a details description of the activates and see them in action.

The session would be about 90mins and then we gonna have a guided tour to the (super cool) simulation hardware and play some games.

Beer would be served (if you bring some..).

** Don’t forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

When: 4 June 2009 at 20:00
Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon

See you there!