GarageGeeks Blog

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 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!

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Creative Commons - Sharing in a Closed World - Get Creative!”
Monday, March 30th, 20:00, GarageGeeks HQ

Creative Commons Israel, founded on 2004, is a branch of the international organization. Creative Commons proves that in a closed world of works we can safely share! Not all rights reserved but some…
Within this GarageGeeks session, you will be exposed to the organization’s notions and activities worldwide and locally. You can also learn why and if the CC licenses are necessary or fit the business world.

Creative Commons - Around the World!
Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and a World-Renowned Technology Entrepreneur - http://www.creativecommons.org

Get Creative in Israel!
Yoni Har-Carmel, Member of the Creative Commons Israel, Haifa Center for Law and Technology, Haifa University, Faculty of Law - http://www.creativecommons.org.il

Do We Really Need CC Licenses?
Nimrod Kozlovski, Start-Up Entrepreneur and Lecturer, Consultant on Internet and Information law - http://www.internetlaws.co.il

Creative Commons Means Business: CC and $$?
Jonathan J. Klinger - Consultant in the Fields of Internet and Information Law and Professional Adviser of the Open-Education Project - Creative Commons Israel http://2jk.org/english

TED x TelAviv - Ideas Worth Spreading on Steroids: The benefits of using the CC license by powerful brands..
Maya Elhalal http://www.MayaElhalal.com

The event will take place on Monday, March 30th, 20:00, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).
Don’t forget to update wiki.garagegeeks.org with food/drink that you will bring.

GarageGeeks are happy to host a 36 hours of: Game Development Jam Session

In a Game Jam, participants come together to make video games. Each participant works in a small team on a complete game project over the course of a limited time period, usually over a weekend.
With such a small time frame, the games tend to be innovative and experimental. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the first of its kind: a game Jam that takes place in the same 48 hours all over the world!
All participants in the Global Game Jam will be constrained by the same rules and limitations, with each time zone having one distinct constraint.

Game Developers registration facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=43339652589

Guest registration facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44790734804

General Information:
http://globalgamejam.org
http://globalgamejam.org/sites/tel-aviv-israel

When:
Starts: Friday, January 30, 2009 at 8:00am
Ends: Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 10:00pm

Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon

See you there!

GarageGeeks are happy to invite you to a session about: developing mobile apps.

Whether you have your own site, simply an idea for mobile app or interested to learn about new trends in the mobile development world, this session is for you.
We will discuss mobile development platforms with emphasize on Windows Mobile, iPhone and fring.

The sessions will include live coding demonstration and real world case studies.
Agenda:
Windows Mobile: Every developer is a mobile developer
- Avner Mor, GM, Telecom and Mobile Services, Microsoft R&D
- Guy Merin, Dev Manager, Windows Mobile, Microsoft R&D

Developing community mobile applications with fring API
- Avi Shechter, Co-founder and CEO, fring
- Itamar Kunik, API Team Leader, fring
- Alexander Zaidelson, Mobile Product Manager, Wefi

Developing for iPhone - First steps
- Gershon Kagan, iPhone consultant

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

When: 15/1/2008 at 20:00
Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon
See you there!

The GarageGeeks sessions with Jeff Pulver and Dror Gill present:

[Tele]Vision! II a different viewing perspective

Following the success of the first [Tele]Vision! session held on April 2007, we will once again bring the best brains together to find out where TV is headed. The format of the session will be quite unique: Each presenter will talk about a topic for 5 minutes, and then lead a Q&A session and discussion for another 5 minutes. There will be no pitching and no company presentations, only pure vision and audience interaction. A peek into some of the topics:

- TV Gets Social (Again)
- From YouTube To Prime Time: It’s All About Telling a Story
- Internet TV: Who Sells The Popcorn?
- Over the Top TV: Delivering Content to TVs over the Open Internet
- Investor Perspective: What it Takes to Start a New Media Company

The event will take place on Thursday, December 18th, 20:30, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).

In this Session event we will learn about Cloud and Grid computing, the new platform for software developers.
Pay per Use for on-demand software services.

November 27 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ

speakers:
* Avner Algom, CEO of IGT (Israeli Grid) www.grid.co.il
* Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO of GigaSpaces
* Moshe Kaplan, Founder, Rocketier
“how with 10 bucks NRE and Cloud computing you can build a start up and start running it”
* Shlomo Swidler: Developing on Amazon’s EC2 Using Open Source Solutions

מדוע
מייקרוסופט http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
גוגל http://code.google.com/appengine
סיילספורס http://www.salesforce.com/platform
ואחרים מציעים פלטפורמות פיתוח מבוססות ענן?

המודל הכלכלי של תשלום עפ”י שימוש חוסך הרבה כסף לצרכני שרותי התוכנה ומציע למפתחים פלטפורמות יעילות וזולות לפיתוח ופירסום של שרותי תוכנה באינטרנט.

בערב זה נלמד מהו מחשוב עננים, מדוע זה קורה עכשיו, וכיצד אנו יכולים להרוויח מתשתית פיתוח זו.

GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi hosting: Steve Glagow, Vice President of Orange Partner will discuss the program and tools available by Orange for its developers community. This is your chance to meet some of France Telecom members.
27 August, 20:00
GarageGeeks HQ, Holon
Please update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org) with food/drink that you will bring and how you can help.

GarageGeeks and HomeTheater.co.il are happy to invite you to a special session about free media centers. Power users and developers will demonstrate some of the leading free media center applications for different platforms with diffierent capabilities — movies, music, pictures, PVR, internet services, social features….

Our presentors (list subject to change):
* BOXEE - Social Media Center (Open Source) - Tom Sella and Idan Cohen
* MythTV - Homebrew PVR solution for Linux (Open Source) - Ran Nachmany (a.k.a Shed)
* Tvitty - Free media downloader plugin for Microsoft Media Center - Gil Hirsch
* XBMC - Cross-platform media-player (Open Source) - Yuval Tal (Tentative)
* MediaPortal - The open source media center for Windows - Tentative

When: 24/7/2008 at 20:00
Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon

Please bring with you some snacks and drinks for the rest to enjoy. Please update the wiki (wiki.garagegeeks.org) with stuff that you’ll bring.