GarageGeeks Blog

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

You are invited to join the first traditional Jeff Pulver (and friends) Purim Marching Breakfast. Please attend in a Purim costume.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=285236291808

This will be a great networking opportunity and a chance to have an impact in the lives of the kids at the Bialik Rogozin School in Tel Aviv.

If possible, please plan to bring toys and chachkes for the kids.

I am also looking for volunteers to help with the organization of the event. If you are interested in helping out, please please follow this link and fill out this form so that I can help the school contact you directly: http://140conf.wufoo.com/forms/volunteer-at-purim-adlayada-marching-breakfast/

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The Bialik Rogozin School in Tel Aviv, an educational campus that serves 750+ at-risk children in grades K-12 are looking for friends to come to the Bialik Rogozin School on Friday, February 26th.

The event starts at 0900 and will include a marching parade.

I am asking my friends in Israel to consider joining me on this day the Bialik Rogozin School and help bring a smile to the these kids.

I would appreciate it if you could share this event with your friends and encourage your friends to help make a difference in the lives of these at-risk kids. I am asking for your help to show that it is possible to use social media for the social good in Israel.

The campus is Haa’liya street 49 Tel aviv, website : http://www.schooly.co.il/cbr/

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Background: The Bialik Rogozin School in Tel Aviv is an educational campus that serves 750+ at-risk children in grades K-12. The school is run by principal Karen Tal and her devoted staff, and with children and teenagers from twenty-eight countries. They are new immigrants, children of foreign workers, refugees from Darfur and Israeli Arabs. Many are from single-parent families. Bialik Rogozin is a caring and nurturing center that provides hot meals, music and art instruction, specialized tutoring and a solid education in a safe and welcoming environment.

The time you spend at the school will be felt and will help transform the lives of these kids.

Where:
HIT - Holon Institute of Technology
Golomb 52, Holon

When: 
Thursday 18/2/2010 19:00 - 23:00
Friday 19/2/2010 10:00-15:00

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Hi all, we just got this cancellation information
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Adverse weather conditions in Washington DC, have made it impossible for Vint Cerf, Google Chief Evangelist to travel to Israel for his planned
commitments. At this time we are canceling all events including Garage
Geeks. Vint is as disappointed as we are and will be rescheduling his trip.
As soon as we have dates you will be the first to know. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Hi all, we just got this cancellation information
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Adverse weather conditions in Washington DC, have made it impossible for Vint Cerf, Google Chief Evangelist to travel to Israel for his planned
commitments. At this time we are canceling all events including Garage
Geeks. Vint is as disappointed as we are and will be rescheduling his trip.
As soon as we have dates you will be the first to know. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Hi all, we just got this cancellation information
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Adverse weather conditions in Washington DC, have made it impossible for Vint Cerf, Google Chief Evangelist to travel to Israel for his planned
commitments. At this time we are canceling all events including Garage
Geeks. Vint is as disappointed as we are and will be rescheduling his trip.
As soon as we have dates you will be the first to know. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. At Google Vint is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company.

We are happy to invite you to IMAGinE (read: Imagine in IMAGE),
an informal, non-commercial gathering of like-minded people in the fields of animation, computer vision, 3D graphics, image processing, visualizations, augmented reality, video and photography.

IMAGinE is one of the unconference events initiated and inspired by Yossi Vardi, which include Kinnernet, GeekCon and MuseNet. As an unconference, the content is created by the event participants, so we depend on YOU to propose discussions, workshops, project displays and any crazy mash-up that comes to mind and can drive technologists and creative types to innovate, learn and inspire.

IMAGinE 2010 will be held on Friday, January 8^th 2010, at the Tiltan College of Design in Haifa.

The event wiki is located at http://imagine2010.pbworks.com, and registration is at http://imagine2010.eventbrite.com.

facebook event at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210873607370

See you there!

The IMAGinE organizing team: Dror Gill, Liad Nishlis, Erez Yissacharov and Yossi Vardi.