Interaction Design Hands On course @ HIT (Holon Institute of Technology)
We are happy to host IDHO’s works exhibition @ the GarageGeeks, on
Thursday 17.7.08 from 19:00 to 23:00
Friday 18.7.08 from 9:00 - 15:00
You are all invited!
GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to another meeting with industry leaders.
Strategic Trends: Hosting Microsoft adCenter VP Alexander Gounares
As Corporate Vice President, adCenter and Commerce Platforms, Alexander Gounares is responsible for leading the engineering efforts for Microsoft’s core advertising platform and commerce technologies (including payments, points, and subscriptions).
Before taking this role, Gounares was the Corporate Vice President for Corporate Strategy, where he was responsible for helping set the overall set the overall strategic direction for the company. Prior to that, Gounares spent three years as the technology assistant to Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman, and he was also responsible for helping formulate and drive the technical strategy for the company. Gounares has been involved with many initiatives across the company, covering everything from search to workflow technologies to new Internet services such as Microsoft Virtual Earth and a number of yet-to-be announced products.
The event will take place on Wednesday June 25th, 21:30, Garage HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).
IMPORTANT!!!: Please update the Wiki (wiki.garagegeeks.org) with food drinks that you will bring.
please tag photos and videos as GarageGeeks and HGLP
The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to hunt down geeks on Halo3, and meet a group of Google’s leading product marketing folks headed by:
We’ll arrange team tournaments with plenty of frags, 4 sets of Xbox360+Projector+extra controllers.
GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza Venture Capital.
Date: 25 October, 20:20(Garage Open at 19:00)
Some say that at the dark side of the moon, an area which we cannot see from earth, there are aliens. And these aliens are watching us. They have no interest in our technology, only in our Art.
Last Thursday, the first Music Workshop took place at the GarageGeeks headquarter.
Hosted by Rafael Mizrahi, Eyal Person Sachar and Uri Levanon.
Thursday, 10 AM, we started wiring the place with MIDI and Audio wires, creating a star shaped network for the attendants to come that will hook their equipments and laptops into the central main 4 stations that where in the middle of the room
Agenda
The music workshops line intends to establish and maintain an open platform where music activity from different areas can be presented in one context across institutional and professional boundaries, in an
informal and progressive environment.Or, in English, bring some musical instruments/Laptops to the
Garage and let’s form a “GarageGeeks sound system” workshop.
19:00 Garage Open: Bring your instruments. Prepare your station.
people start to show up, some with laptops, some without, some with home made music controllers, drums, trombone, harmonicas, synths, keyboards, beer.
The participants started hooking up their equipment at the stations we prepared, and got to know each other.
Vibe faeries where floating in the air, and the crowd was full with enthusiastic and curiosity, what will happen tonight?
Abelton Live Training: quick hands-on training and how to edit music for dummies.
“Person” gave a 25 minutes quick-start field guide on Ableton Live, and after few questions, the Jam began.
Live with ‘Abelton Live’
An Open Jam Session, bring laptops (with MIDI), and/or other musical instruments.
We will hook and sync them together.
21:15 We reached 10 Live stations all synced together with
MIDI and audio, playing samples and loops chosen almost randomly by the one who played on that station.
About 4 of the stations where public, so 2 you could join the jam and throw some drum-n-base loop or Madonna acapella into the musical wiki part.
For the next two and a half hours, the music stopped only for few times, choosing new rhythms, trying out some conductive-gaming ways to sort some order. Sometimes it was noisy and disharmony, sometimes it was super-cool and funky, but all the time, it was tribal, and fun.
Reflections
Thank you so much for participating.
Already started forming Music Workshop No.2
Flickr images tagged with garagegeeks ggwrksp music
The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage session on:
Internet Advertising from a large advertising perspective
Ted McConnel - Global Innovation Leader, Digital Marketing,
Procter & Gamble
The event will take place on Tuesday August 28, 20:30, Garage HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon)
After the presentation we will host a party, so please update the Wiki (wiki.garagegeeks.org) with food/drinks that you will bring.
Other guest from P&G that will join us:
For the last few moths, GarageGeeks, Michal Rinott and Zvika Netter have been teaching Inetraction Design Hands On course @ HIT (Holon Institute of Technology)
with some classes using the Garage space in Holon.
We are happy to host IDHO’s works exhibition @ the Garage, on Sunday 5.8.07 from 19:00 to 23:00.
You are all invited!
Reflections
Images at Flickr http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=idho+garagegeeks&s=rec
The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi hosted to a special garage party event under the title “GarageGeeks hosting Google”
For the last week, the guys where cleaning and dusting up the place inside-out.
The back yard of the garage was also cleaned because the assumption which turn out right, was, that lots of people will arrive to the event.
Well, if the guys meet at the garage, even for cleanups, they had to pull some creativity into it. So, after finishing cleaning and painting the toilets, a printer was assembled on the door as a toilet paper holder.
21:00-21:45
Marissa Mayer (Google VP Search Products & User Experience), along with Prof Yossi Matias (Director, Tel Aviv Engineering Center Google) and Meir Brand (Country Director, Israel) enter the garage with 25 Google product managers and Google Israel employees.
They were sitting for 45 minutes while we gave them presentations about the un-conventions activities in Israel. Presentation included GarageGeeks, KinnerNet, GeekCon, EureCamp, MuseNet and so on.
http://www.garagegeeks.org
http://www.kinnernet.com
http://www.geekcon.org
http://www.eurekamp.com
http://www.themusenet.com
21:45-02:00
Marissa gave her keynote speech from Zvika’s father forklift,
The party started, hundreds of Israel high tech enthusiastics gathered outside for drinks, barbeque and mingling.
As usual, the place was also equipped with games, Playstation, XBOX360 and Wii.
It was a Great.
Uri Levanon with a hacked iPhone
ohhh… just remembered, there where also some guys that didn’t went outside, and preferred to stay at the Garage and do some iPhone hacking using mono running on iPhone BSD OS.
Flickr Images tagged with hglp and google
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=all&q=hglp+google&m=text
  
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