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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.

September 3rd

19:00, garagegeeks HQ, hapeled 40, Holon

In this workshop people would make hardware that play music, and then we’ll connect all of them together and play some a nice class symphony ( and more songs) with a lot of instruments

instrument examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsQd2n99zS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SCSGRVAQE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tatiU2ha0

Starting points:

What you’ll need for the workshop:

Some Mechanical hardware to musically control, and that can produce sounds in different tones. Hard drives, floppy drives, printers, A motor, power tools. Be creative.

A method to control them from a computer. You can use these kinds of hardware interface boards for example:

• http://www.phidgets.com/
• http://www.arduino.cc/

A laptop with some softwares: to connect to the garage’s midi network we’ll use: http://www.ebertronic.com/downloadMidiViaNet.htm or if you have Midi hardware, bring it so we won’t need to count on the network.

MIDI interface softwares:

http://www.midiox.com/

we want to make this a two part session, the first people meet, start working, build the instrument, and then go home, finish their instrument, and meet again for the symphony playing.

The first one on September 3rd. this will give you time to find hardware, buy Arduino or Phidget boards etc.. We’ll set the date for the next one soon.

How do we decided what we’ll play with the orchestra ?

If anyone here knows PHP, we want to ask you to help us build a system where people can uplaod .midi files and then vote for their favorite file, then we’ll arrange the most chosen songs to be played.