GarageGeeks Blog

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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
=========================
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.

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 8:00pm

This month we’ll be hosting:

* Simone Brunozzi from Amazon EU, which will give a technical presentation about S3 internals.
* Natan Elsberg from RDV Systems, which will describe how they are using the entire AWS stack to enable 3D real-time collaboration on engineering projects.

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

in our series “meet the Industry leaders

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet
Jimmy Wales: Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation

Max Levchin: Co-founder and former chief technology officer of PayPal. founder and CEO of Slide.

The event will take place on Thursday, October 22,  at 21:00
GarageGeeks HQ, Hapeled 40, Holon at

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks drink and meat to share with other.

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”: GarageGeeks hosting Universal Music Publishing

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet
David Renzer, Chairman and CEO of “Universal Music Publishing” the largest music publisher in the world.

The event will take place on Tuesday, October 13, Garage HQ, Hapeled 40, Holon at 20:30

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks drink and meat to share with other.

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Israel Amazon Web Services User Group
hosted by Martin Buhr, AWS EMEA Business Director

Tuesday, September 22
20:15, GarageGeeks HQ

Please join us to meet the AWS team, meet other AWS users, and discuss Cloud Computing.

Agenda:

• 20:30 - 20:15  Welcome and Introduction: Martin Buhr
• 20:15 - 20:45  Cloudy Thinking: Yossi Vardi
• 20:45 - 21:15  AWS Customer Presentation
• 21:15 - 21:45  What’s New With AWS: Martin Buhr
• 21:45 - 22:15  AWS Customer Presentation
• 22:15 - 22:45  Q&A / Wrap Up

more information at http://www.amiando.com/AWS-Israel.html

** 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.

in our series “meet the Industry leaders”: GarageGeeks hosting the Huffington Post”

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event,  to meet
Arianna Huffington, co- founder and editor-in-chief  of the “Huffington Post” one of the most influential internet newspaper in the world.

The event will take place on Monday, September 21st , Garage HQ, Hapeled 40, Holon at 20:30

This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks drink and meat to share with other.
Please update the wiki (wiki.garagegeeks.org) which stuff that you bring to drink and eat.

The GarageGeeks sessions present:

Experiments in Art, Software, Hardware and UX with Amit Pitaru

August 27th, 8:30pm

Like a typical garage geek, Amit splits his nights and days between experimental and commercial work.

In this session Amit will share recent art projects and discuss how they affect his work as software/hardware designer, user experience freak, and (recent) entrepreneur.

*** This is a free event, please bring DRINKS and snacks to share ***
It might get hot without cold beers at hand, and Amit recomends one for better UX

Recent projects:
Sonic Wire Sculptor (see video on top of page)
Rhonda 3D drawing tool (see video and register to dl beta software)
Smashup Dance Project

Not so recent projects:
Bjork Pagan Poetry and more works at http://insertsilence.com

Texts:

PDF on creating games for children with disabilities.
A couple of interviews with Amit here and here.

Bio:

As an artist, Amit develops novel instruments and methods for making music, animation, and dance. His personal and collaborative work with James Paterson has recently exhibited and performed at the London Design Museum, Paris Pompidou Center, Sundance Film festival and ICC Museum in Tokyo.

As an educator, he teaches (on and off) at New York University’s ITP and Cooper Union’s Arts department.

Amit works as a game designer, prototype maker (hardware/software), and user experience designer to selected clients. He’s also a recent entrepreneur (startup to be revealed soon).
Amit was recently commissioned by the MacArthur foundation to publish his research; making everyday software and video games more accessible to children with disabilities. He is also an advisor for the Institute of Play, who are developing a public school that will use game design and game-inspired methods to teach critical 21st Century skills.