GarageGeeks Blog

you are invited to a special garage event, to learn about the present and future of electronic payments. and meet:

* Osama Bedier - Vice President of PayPal Platform and Emerging Technology - Future of electronic and mobile payment.

* Greetings: Oded Zehavi, Regional Director, Israel & South Africa at PayPal .

* Naveed Anwar - Senior Director of PayPal Developer Network

* Startup standing panel – use case and Q&A : Fiverr, Somobi, SupersonicAds and anyone who have interesting stories to share.

The event will take place on:
Sunday, July 25, 20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

Osama Bedier perceived one of the thought leaders in global electronic payments and he is behind PayPal’s radical move to open up its system to third-party developers and allow them to integrate its payment system into their Web sites, mobile apps, and devices.
In the first three months, PayPal signed up more than 15,000 developers.

Anwar Naveed - Senior Director of PayPal Developer Network (previously managed the AOL Developer Network )
Announce the PayPal global developer challenge with 100,000 $ prize for the best application
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devchallenge
and invite people to come to the PayPal innovate 2010 event in October.

* 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

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

Marissa Mayer, Google Vice President, Search Products & User Experience

Greetings: Yossi Matias, Director of Israel R&D Center, Google

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, June 29, 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

Please RSVP at
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127304100638491

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

Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C CEO

Dr. Jeff Jaffe is Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium. In this role he works with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, and membership, and the public to evolve and communicate the W3C’s organizational vision.

The event will take place on June 14, Garage HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon at 19:30

The World-Wide Web was created as a platform for information sharing decades ago. In the interim it has grown to become the platform for commerce, education, entertainment, and collaboration as well.

People have contributed proprietary enhancements to achieve this enhanced platform. Ultimately, the world has a common platform only if key platform elements are open and standard. The World-Wide Web Consortium is focused on a variety of technologies and domains including: video, ubiquity, accessibility, social networking, cloud computing, society, and linked data to ensure that the next generation platform is as open and innovative as the current Web

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

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

You are invited to a special post-Kinnernet 2010 GarageGeeks party.
This time we have invited Kinnernet participants from Israel and aboard to join us.

Sunday, 2 May 19:30
GarageGeeks HQ
HaPeled 40, Holon

please tag videos images etc’ with garagegeeks

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

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC
Photo credit: Ron Shoshani (”Ronsho“) gave a ONE TIME single permission to the use his image for the event invitation

The GarageGeeks sessions present:
Israel Amazon Web Services User Group
hosted by Dan Feld, AWS EMEA

Sunday, May 2
18:00, GarageGeeks HQ

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

Agenda:

18:00-18:20 – Gathering and networking

18:20-18:50 - Cloud Capability - Why customers are choosing cloud computing? - After 4 years, starting with EC2 and S3, Amazon Web Services now offers 20 different services. What is the motivation of customers who come to Amazon web services? What are they doing with it today?

18:50-19:30 – AWS Customer’s presentations – Some of our Israeli customers will present their business case and how they used AWS capabilities as a solution.

19:30-20:00 – What’s new with AWS?, Closing words

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:

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.