GarageGeeks Blog

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.

Israeli President Shimon Peres visited the city of Holon.
The president was meeting with high school students, visited the “Invitation to Silence” exhibition at the Children Museum, and met the GarageGeeks and Dr. Yossi Vardi at the MediaTheque.
GarageGeeks member, Rafael Mizrahi, presented to the president’s staff about of the underground high-tech scene and creative activities in Holon and Israel.

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

Arduino, is definitely the new “king of the block” for interactive projects.

This workshop you will get a kick started with the help of the Arduino master, Arnon Katz http://twitter.com/nonikatz

11 March, 20:30, GarageGeeks HQ, Holon

Bring your own laptop and arduino if you have - we’ll bring a few.
Place for 40 or so hardware savvy (or wannabiz)

http://www.arduino.co.il/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8063975.stm