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GarageGeeks are happy to invite you to a session about: Flight Simulators.

Whether you are a real life pilot or just enjoy playing with your stick, you would love to hear about “underground” trends in Virtual flight and traffic control Simulation going on and meet the people running the show.

We are proud to host Ilan Jonash one of the founders and heading the Middle east and Africa activities of VATSIM (Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network).
We will get in to the scene of the virtual fighters, get a details description of the activates and see them in action.

The session would be about 90mins and then we gonna have a guided tour to the (super cool) simulation hardware and play some games.

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.

When: 4 June 2009 at 20:00
Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon

See you there!

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Creative Commons - Sharing in a Closed World - Get Creative!”
Monday, March 30th, 20:00, GarageGeeks HQ

Creative Commons Israel, founded on 2004, is a branch of the international organization. Creative Commons proves that in a closed world of works we can safely share! Not all rights reserved but some…
Within this GarageGeeks session, you will be exposed to the organization’s notions and activities worldwide and locally. You can also learn why and if the CC licenses are necessary or fit the business world.

Creative Commons - Around the World!
Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and a World-Renowned Technology Entrepreneur - http://www.creativecommons.org

Get Creative in Israel!
Yoni Har-Carmel, Member of the Creative Commons Israel, Haifa Center for Law and Technology, Haifa University, Faculty of Law - http://www.creativecommons.org.il

Do We Really Need CC Licenses?
Nimrod Kozlovski, Start-Up Entrepreneur and Lecturer, Consultant on Internet and Information law - http://www.internetlaws.co.il

Creative Commons Means Business: CC and $$?
Jonathan J. Klinger - Consultant in the Fields of Internet and Information Law and Professional Adviser of the Open-Education Project - Creative Commons Israel http://2jk.org/english

TED x TelAviv - Ideas Worth Spreading on Steroids: The benefits of using the CC license by powerful brands..
Maya Elhalal http://www.MayaElhalal.com

The event will take place on Monday, March 30th, 20:00, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).
Don’t forget to update wiki.garagegeeks.org with food/drink that you will bring.

GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi excited to host Allen Hurff, the Senior Vice President of Engineering at MySpace.

The event will take place at the GarageGeeks HQ at 40 Hapeled St, Holon on the 24/3 at 20:30.

Allen Hurff will discuss “Open Platform” + “Open Stack” + “OpenSocial”:

MySpace’s evolution thru “Open” and the road ahead. Since it’s inception, MySpace has been a place for embedded widgets. In 2007, MySpace helped to form OpenSocial with Google, Yahoo, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, and many others to extend beyond the simple functionality of the embedded widget to a platform that is more deeply embedded into the ecosystem of social networking at it’s core. In early 2008, MySpace released it’s MySpace Open Platform (and Developer Platform) based on OpenSocial v0.5. MySpace spent 2008 evolving it’s Platform while also working to evolve, spec, and release several updates to the OpenSocial Spec. MySpace also spent 2008 working with the “Open Stack” community by implementing and often times directly contributing to; oAuth, OpenID + OAuth Extension, Portable Contact, Activity Stream Spec, OpenID UI/UX Working Group, and XRDS-Simple.

Don’t forget to update wiki.garagegeeks.org with food/drink that you will bring.

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Lost in Conversion? Unleash the power of web analytics to improve conversion rates.

Web analytics and conversion optimization is probably the biggest untapped opportunity within online marketing, particularly in a time of economic downturn.

Within this GarageGeeks session, you be exposed to best practices and new developments in measurability, user behavior analysis and proven conversion rate tactics.

Conversion is the New Black!
Itai Levitan, Co-CEO and Daniel Waisberg, Head of Web Analytics, easynet search marketing http://www.easynet.co.il

Google Analytics & Website Optimizer an Overview
Nir Bar-Lev, Head of Analysis Products, EMEA at Google

From Porn to AI in 20 slides.
Rafael Mizrahi, http://www.Feng-GUI.com

Reveal the mystery of what visitors are doing inside your webpage
Dr. Tal Schwartz, Founder and CEO, ClickTale
http://www.clicktale.com

NuConomy - next generation personalization and advertising platform based on advanced user level Analytics.
http://www.NuConomy.com

Session Summary
Itai Levitan of easynet search marketing.

- Mingle and Mangal

The event will take place on Thursday, March 12th, 20:00, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).

** Don’t forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Giza VC and Carmel Ventures

IDHO exhibition 2009

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

When: 
Thursday 29/1/2009 19:00 - 22:00
Friday 30/1/2009 10:00-14:00

HA-KIR
music   art   motion
“HA-KIR” is an interactive project that incorporates music, art and motion. Its purpose is to allow anyone to create music in an easy, fun and intuitive manner, by touching a wall. The touch and movement create sounds, which are completed by visual traces.

Operator
What would you be willing to tell a stranger?
AA is a communication device that disconnects the message from the speaker, creating a new experience of sharing that mixes anonymity and voyeurism.

Musical Chairs
A project exploring the playful aspect of music.

On a stage are seven objects. Whenever someone sits on an object, the sound of a musical instrument is played. The seven objects in the emergent lounge space become a platform for a jam session. The interaction between the users and the object, and between the different users, creates an interesting musical and interpersonal happening.

Un-mute
Ever stood in line behind very annoying people and wanted to say something, but just couldn’t bring yourself to say it? Ever got stepped on by someone, and just didn’t have the guts to say something about it?

UNMUTE is a portable device which helps to overcome our tendency to become a “social mute”. It enables us to express emotions in different situations by using dynamic sounds, which are controlled by an easy-to-learn language of hand gestures.

GarageGeeks are happy to host a 36 hours of: Game Development Jam Session

In a Game Jam, participants come together to make video games. Each participant works in a small team on a complete game project over the course of a limited time period, usually over a weekend.
With such a small time frame, the games tend to be innovative and experimental. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the first of its kind: a game Jam that takes place in the same 48 hours all over the world!
All participants in the Global Game Jam will be constrained by the same rules and limitations, with each time zone having one distinct constraint.

Game Developers registration facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=43339652589

Guest registration facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44790734804

General Information:
http://globalgamejam.org
http://globalgamejam.org/sites/tel-aviv-israel

When:
Starts: Friday, January 30, 2009 at 8:00am
Ends: Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 10:00pm

Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon

See you there!

GarageGeeks are happy to invite you to a session about: developing mobile apps.

Whether you have your own site, simply an idea for mobile app or interested to learn about new trends in the mobile development world, this session is for you.
We will discuss mobile development platforms with emphasize on Windows Mobile, iPhone and fring.

The sessions will include live coding demonstration and real world case studies.
Agenda:
Windows Mobile: Every developer is a mobile developer
- Avner Mor, GM, Telecom and Mobile Services, Microsoft R&D
- Guy Merin, Dev Manager, Windows Mobile, Microsoft R&D

Developing community mobile applications with fring API
- Avi Shechter, Co-founder and CEO, fring
- Itamar Kunik, API Team Leader, fring
- Alexander Zaidelson, Mobile Product Manager, Wefi

Developing for iPhone - First steps
- Gershon Kagan, iPhone consultant

** Don’t forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with
stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

When: 15/1/2008 at 20:00
Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon
See you there!

The GarageGeeks sessions with Jeff Pulver and Dror Gill present:

[Tele]Vision! II a different viewing perspective

Following the success of the first [Tele]Vision! session held on April 2007, we will once again bring the best brains together to find out where TV is headed. The format of the session will be quite unique: Each presenter will talk about a topic for 5 minutes, and then lead a Q&A session and discussion for another 5 minutes. There will be no pitching and no company presentations, only pure vision and audience interaction. A peek into some of the topics:

- TV Gets Social (Again)
- From YouTube To Prime Time: It’s All About Telling a Story
- Internet TV: Who Sells The Popcorn?
- Over the Top TV: Delivering Content to TVs over the Open Internet
- Investor Perspective: What it Takes to Start a New Media Company

The event will take place on Thursday, December 18th, 20:30, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).

In this Session event we will learn about Cloud and Grid computing, the new platform for software developers.
Pay per Use for on-demand software services.

November 27 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ

speakers:
* Avner Algom, CEO of IGT (Israeli Grid) www.grid.co.il
* Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO of GigaSpaces
* Moshe Kaplan, Founder, Rocketier
“how with 10 bucks NRE and Cloud computing you can build a start up and start running it”
* Shlomo Swidler: Developing on Amazon’s EC2 Using Open Source Solutions

מדוע
מייקרוסופט http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
גוגל http://code.google.com/appengine
סיילספורס http://www.salesforce.com/platform
ואחרים מציעים פלטפורמות פיתוח מבוססות ענן?

המודל הכלכלי של תשלום עפ”י שימוש חוסך הרבה כסף לצרכני שרותי התוכנה ומציע למפתחים פלטפורמות יעילות וזולות לפיתוח ופירסום של שרותי תוכנה באינטרנט.

בערב זה נלמד מהו מחשוב עננים, מדוע זה קורה עכשיו, וכיצד אנו יכולים להרוויח מתשתית פיתוח זו.

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage party:
GarageGeeks hosting Yahoo!
“who’s the BOSS”?

Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) Hack Day is making its way around the world and its coming to Israel!

You are all invited to learn about BOSS technology, ask questions and meet a group of Yahoo’s leading product folks headed by:
- Bill Michels, GM of Yahoo! Search BOSS
- Ronny Lempel, Head of the Yahoo! Haifa Research Lab
- and lead BOSS product managers and engineers

The event will take place on Wednesday November 5th, 20:30, GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).

Yahoo! will also be hosting an extended developer-focused BOSS Hack Day on Nov 6th. For more details, please go to http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1223198. For more info on BOSS here visit http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/.

** Don’t forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

Garagegeeks is sponsored by Giza VC and Carmel Ventures