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Think you’ve got what it takes to show the world how developers in your country code?

This year, with Open Call for Google Developer Day, Google will be showcasing works from developers across each of the eight GDD countries.

And we want you to get involved!



The finalist will be presented at GDD Israel at November.

If you want in, here is what you need to do:



1. Before July 25, Submit your project idea to Round II

Israel submission got an approval to skip Round I

Your project idea can be anything but have to use the ADK

https://sites.google.com/s​ite/opencallforgdd/the-cha​llenge

Due on July 25 at 5:00 P.M. PDT

send to amirsh [shtrudel] google d0t com



2. We will select 10 projects and announce them by August 1



3. Selected projects can start working on the projects at home.



4. Participate at the ADK workshop at Google Tel Aviv

Receive the Android hardware and take it home to proceed working on the project.

August 30 at 18:00 at Google Tel Aviv

Levinstein Tower, Derech Menachem Begin 23, Tel Aviv



5. follow this event news for updates about the ADK challenge



There is the official ADK site

http://developer.android.c​om/guide/topics/usb/adk.ht​ml



Videos of past ADK innovation

http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=GHQjRjJYc-Q&feature=r​elmfu

http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=Ub7newiu930



more information at

https://sites.google.com/s​ite/opencallforgdd/Home



still confused? you can contact Amir Shevat for more information

amirsh [at] google d0t com

DC9723 is organizing a Hackathon event on September 22 5pm - September 23 5pm.

We would like to invite you all to attend and participate in what should be a very dynamic 24 hours
Hackathon is an event where hackers meet and do collaborative computer programming, hardware hacking and etc.

Bring laptops, soldering kits, FPGA’s and other working tools!

It’s a good opportunity for you to socialize, find new projects, break new stuff, and contribute to the community!

Got an idea for a new hack? Looking for help writing a new fuzzer? Need help with your reverse shell over ICMP?
Create account at http://www.dc9723.org/Hackathon and add your project, or alternatively join someone else’s project.

The DC9723 Hackathon event is open to the public, yet it is customary to participate in at least one project (or to create your own, either way it’s hands-on).

September 22 5pm - September 23 5pm
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon
RSVP by:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111683072261384&ref=ts

If you have any questions, please contact Itzik Kotler: ik [at] ikotler (d0t) org

Geekcon 2011 pre-con

You have an awesome idea for GeekCon 2011 but you need help?
You can solder / program / weld / do something else but need a project?
want to group up and come to geekcon?

This is the time and place - this is not for wannabees - come only if ur up for it
everyone who wants will get a minute to say what they can do or what they need

Tuesday, July 19 
8:30pm - 11:30pm

GarageGeeks HQ
Hapeled 40
Holon

 

In our series “Meet the Industry Leaders”, Yossi Vardi and the GarageGeeks, in cooperation with DLD,  invite you to a special session with:

• Stanley Fischer, the Governor of the Bank of Israel
• Sir Ronald Cohen, Founder of Apax
• David Fischer, VP of Advertising and Global Operations at Facebook
• Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo
• Robert Stephens, CTO of Best Buy and founder of The Geek Squad
• Martin Varsavsky, Founder of Fon
• Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikimedia

Professor Stanley Fischer has been Governor of the Bank of Israel since May 2005. On May 1, 2010, Prof. Fischer was nominated Governor for a second term. Prior to joining the Bank of Israel, Prof. Fischer was Vice Chairman of Citigroup from February 2002 through April 2005.  From 1994 to 2001 he was First Deputy Managing Director (the number 2 position) of the IMF.  From 1973 to 1994 he was Professor of Economics in the MIT Department of Economics.

Sir Ronald Cohen is a pioneer of the UK venture capital industry, having co-founded Apax Partners in 1972, which went on to become the largest private equity firm in Europe. He was a founder, director and chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association. He is also prominent in the social sector, as chair of the UK Social Investment Task Force and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets, as a donor and as founder of Bridges Ventures and the Portland Trust.

David Fischer is the VP of Advertising and Global Operations at Facebook and oversees sales, advertiser marketing, and customer operations throughout the world. He joined Facebook after over seven years at Google, where he was VP of Global Online Sales and Operations and was responsible for Google’s online sales channel, which represents the majority of Google’s customers worldwide. In that role, he helped build Google’s online advertising network into the largest in the world.

Tom Rogers is the President and CEO of TiVo Inc., the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR). He holds this position since 2005. Before TiVo, Rogers was Chairman and CEO of PRIMEDIA Inc., which then was the leading targeted media company in the United States. Previously, Rogers was President of NBC Cable and EVP of NBC, as well as NBC’s chief strategist and founder of the leading news channel CNBC.

Robert Stephens is the CTO of Best Buy and founder of The Geek Squad. In April 1994, after 3 years of building flight and driving simulators at the Human Factors Research Laboratory of the University of Minnesota, he formed The Geek Squad with $200. In 2002, The Geek Squad acquired Best Buy and opened Geek Squad precincts in all Best Buy US and Canadian stores. Now, with over 25,000 Agents, The Geek Squad is now the world’s largest technology support company.

Martin Varsavsky is the founder and CEO of FON, the largest WiFi network in the world with over 4 million hotspots. Martin is an Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com. Martin also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and is President and Founder of The Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation, and was Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina up to 2005.

Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded Nupedia, by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.

The event will take place on: Thursday, June 23rd,  20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon
* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* This event is also sponsored by DLD
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

* Alex Kipman: General Manager of Incubation for Xbox, Entertainment hardware innovation and incubation.

* Sara Clemens – General Manager, Strategy & Business Development – Interactive Entertainment Group ( XBOX, TV)

* Brian Schultz – Director Corp Dev & M&A

* Sam Rosenbalm – Director – Entrepreneur community development

* Charlie Kindel – General Manager – WindowsPhone Ecosystem and 3rd Party Developers

in the presence of Moshe Lichtman – President Israel Development Center , Yoram Yaacovi – CTO and Zack (Tzahi) Weisfeld – Sr. Director Strategy and Business Development

The event will take place on:
Monday, May 30, 20:00
at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* Pizzas, Beers and Light beverages will be supplied
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds.

You are invited to a special post-Kinnernet 2011 GarageGeeks party.

This time we have invited Kinnernet participants from Israel and aboard to join us.

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

Sunday, 3 April 19:30
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon

please tag videos images etc’ with garagegeeks

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Gemini VC

Photo credit: Ron Shoshani (”Ronsho“) gave a ONE TIME single permission to the use his image for the event invitation.

תערוכה חדשה של קורס IDHO הייחודי במעבדה לאינטראקציה יוצאת לדרך ותתקיים בתאריכים

17 לפברואר, יום חמישי בין השעות 18:00 - 22:30 .

18 לפברואר, יום שישי בין השעות 10:00 - 14:00.

 במסגרת התערוכה יוצגו אובייקטים אינטראקטיבים עובדים. אתם וחבריכם מוזמנים להגיע, לגעת, לראות, לשמוע ולהרגיש, להפעיל ולהתפעל!

התערוכה תתקיים ב-H.I.T מכון טכנולוגי חולון, רח’ גולומב 52, במעבדה לאינטראקציה.כולם מוזמנים!

http://he-il.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183366505036406

This second Arduino workshop hosted by the Arduino master, Arnon Katz http://twitter.com/nonikatz

Bring your own laptop and arduino if you have - we’ll bring a few.
Place for 40 or so hardware savvy (or wannabiz)
If you already started working on some project, excellent, bring it over and we’ll do some further improvements together.

24 Feb 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon

The Arduino website:
http://arduino.cc/
Download of the Arduino Software:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
Arduino and Processing:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Processing

Some videos of things we can do with Arduino:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PgvRAeuIrk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKiN_5nrUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLU4GS7zAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PgvRAeuIrk

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

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Carl Bass, Autodesk, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc.  Autodesk products serve the manufacturing, building, infrastructure, and media and entertainment industries.
Formerly he was Autodesk’s chief operating officer, responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and product development.  Earlier roles included chief strategy officer and executive vice president of emerging business, looking broadly across the entire Autodesk organization at strategy and growth opportunities.

He also served as chief technology officer (CTO) and vice president of the AECAD group, responsible for the design and development of AutoCAD and AEC products.  When Autodesk spun off its Buzzsaw division as a separate start-up, Bass left to be its chairman, CEO and president. He returned to Autodesk when Buzzsaw was acquired by the company.

Bass co-founded Ithaca Software, the developers of HOOPS, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993.
Bass serves on the Board of Directors of Autodesk, McAfee, and iRise and is a member of the Executive Advisory Boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology).  He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University.

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, November 2,  20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

* Tag your photos and videos with GarageGeeks
* Get email notification when photos from the GarageGeeks events and other events you participated go on-line.
Activate your bluetooth at the event & join to http://www.tagsback.com/

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Elliot Schrage, Facebook, VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy.

Elliot Schrage is the Vice President of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy,
where he is responsible for developing and coordinating key messages about products, corporate business and partnerships.
He also oversees the company’s public policy strategy worldwide.
Elliot joined Facebook from Google, where he was the Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs.
He helped broaden and coordinate the company’s messaging from a focus on product PR to include all aspects of corporate, financial, policy, philanthropic and internal communications.
Prior to Google, Elliot was the Bernard L. Schwarz Senior Fellow in business and foreign policy at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.
Earlier in his career, Elliot served as the Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for Gap Inc. and an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Columbia Law School.
He has been a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times. Elliot holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a JD from Harvard Law School.
The event will take place on:
Thursday, October 28th,  20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

* Tag your photos and videos with GarageGeeks
* Get email notification when photos from the GarageGeeks events and other events you participated go on-line.
Activate your bluetooth at the event & join to http://www.tagsback.com/