Workshops
In the spirit of sharing and collaboration, we are going to run a track of workshops.
Add workshops you are willing to give on creative topics such as:
* Internet and computing
* Cool stuff
* Hack (white hat only !) google, amazon, ebay or other popular sites
* Travel
* Art: photography, 3D, crafts , cooking, wellbeing,
And add your name to workshops you want to join below:
(Here's how to edit the wiki)
[Would someone be interested in doing a 30 min/day Hebrew for beginners - Gary Shainberg]
i can do it. but it will be a bit radical hebrew (rafram)
Martial Arts in theory practice and bits
Ola Ahlvarsson
An odysee in how Karate, Kung Fu, Thaiboxing, Tae Kwon Do, Kick boxing, Tekken 2 and other attempts to kick punch and wrestle are facinating people.
How to grow your company international?
Ola Ahlvarsson:
I want to sit down with those of you who have good, bad and ugly experience of going international and compare notes, draw conclusions and hopefully become wiser.
The Future of TV
Jeff Pulver:
We will take a look at the effects of the broadband internet on the future of TV, Film and Broadcasting. Difference between IPTV and TV over IP. Defining Unisodes and Episodes. Is RSS the future for TV Distribution? Who is producing for 320x240, for the 2" iPod and for the ten foot IPTV experience? Who happens when the traditional broadcasters wake up and try to apply legacy regulation to prevent Internet TV from happening? Does Long Tail TV have a future? How do we expect consumers to discover this long tail content? Why are we seeing an explosion of Long Tail Internet TV now? How do you join the Internet TV revolution?
Creating avant-garde artistic, silent mobile video
Gil Rimon:
Try to formulate a cinematic, artistic language for video on cellular cameras. Following the 90s "Dogma" movies, to the contemporary Avant-garde Dugma micro-movies. Some applicable rules: One session movies with only "pause" and "record" editing. Using hyper-realistic angles, a lot of close-ups and no soundtrack, for instance. I will upload a demo soon.
Fear Greed & Disruption - How to disrupt an industry and make $100 million on the way
Jeff Pulver
A look back at the past 10 years of the evolution of the IP Communications Industry. During the discussion I will be sharing some of the lessons learned which can be applied by others to disrupt other industry sectors.
Generating ideas upside-down
Not sure whether this is a discussion or a workshop, so putting it in both sections. This is kind of a pilot for an unconventional type of creative process – the reverted one. We will try to inhale a meaning into a randomly generated idea (much like Dilbert's Mission Statement Generator http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi). I will collect some hot buzzwords (nouns, adverbs, adjectives) from different areas and we will try to interpret some ideas randomly generated in real-time from these buzzwords. Half fun - half brainstorm – be there!
By: Roostam Tiger
Participants:
Lunch & Learn @ our Hummus 1.0 workshop;
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For years the Israeli Innovation phenomena has remained an unexplained mystery
for those outside of the country. We feel it is time to unfold the mystery and share with you
that Hummus is the source of the Israeli Genius.
Hummus is the secret weapon used by the Israeli High Tech industry for years to fuel
the brain cells of its' talents. Yet knowing the secret is not enough,
most important is how to apply this knowledge: it all about how to eat it!
At our Hummus 1.0 work shop - we will share with you (step by step tutorial) how to eat
this mysterious brain food as part of a nutritious and healthy lunch.
Date: Friday 16.3
Time: Noon
Location: Front balcony of the Ohalo dinning room
Who should attend: Kinnernet participants from abroad
Instructors: Gilli & Yariv
Hints:
1. It is NOT a DIP.
2. It is All in the wrist.
And... it's much more then anyone thought before
Notes:
1. A Hummus 2.0 advanced workshop might (or might not) be offered at Midnight
focusing on blind Hummus tasting. (Might delayed for Kinnernet 2008 because of delay in the final spec of Hummus 2.0)
Disclaimer:
Consumption of over 1/2 KG of Hummus a day may cause a severe appearance
change over time (mainly in the waste line area).
TechSpec:
Here is the complete Tech spec of Hummus (This list seems to be very professional but it lacks the real important info....)
Great Hummus explorrers:
A task to explore the best Hummus,
To those of you who stay in Israel a bit longer:
prefered Hummus places in Tel-Aviv (And i don't agree with the 1st one they choosed but the 2nd one is my favorit and it's 4 minutes walk from my office)
Hummus in Jaffa (The arbic part of Tel-Aviv and where i live (Yariv))
Hummus : Abu Adham
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Participants: ________
(Please re-consider. Less Participants=more Hummus for the orgenizers. On the other hand you'll not understand the Israeli innovation phenomena so.......) |
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The Social Web
You're welcome to add topics here. This will be an open discussion with different leads, about the different
and practical aspects of social interactions and user generated content on the web
Derivative Viral Growth – Yael Givon
The pros and cons of riding someone else's tide wave or how can you enjoy the tide of Skype, YouTube Flickr etc.
PGUC - Passively Generated User Content - Davidi Silberstein
"wisdom of crowds" vs. user generated content
Flickr as a social tool – Yael Givon
How online pictures change the offline social scene
Social shopping: the future of e-commerce or a fad? - Alon Cohen
From Pareto to the Long Tail and back – Yaniv Golan
The power of aggregation – from small building blocks to the Eifel Tower
The Arab world is making its move – Idan Feigenbaum
Latest trends in the Arab online world
TalkBack – history, present and future – Amit Jurgenson
How to get your house filled with people by writing three words
Information consumption and people - Maya Lotan
Who we are vs. who we want to be vs.who they are vs. what we could do together
The Great Origami Workshop
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After the last year success of the Great Origami Workshop we are committed to continue with the tradition, and bring this exciting workshop once again to Kinnernet.
This year we will create only with papers:
Real Dragons!
Frogs!
Boats and Yachts!
One Humus!
Samurai!
Flowers!
And many more….
Wanted!!
Top models for the new paper collection.
Save your place in the workshop today!! (the number of papers is limited).
For RSRV please contact Arnon
Building a Tensegrity structure
Tom Sofer
Similar to Origami , These structures have been first used by Buckminster Fuller and others in the 1950's to create a lightweight , stable structure.
we will attempt to recreate these structures based on instructions I have found on MAKE magazine. The struts used will be broomsticks, so we should have a nice big installation. since my experience with these is limited to models , this will be a workshop for me too , and hopefully be left on the lawn to be played with throughout kinnernet.
anyone interested in helping should bring wooden broomsticks or anything similar , in multiples of 3 , and any 'stretchy' , flexible rope/cord you can obtain.
Fire Eating for Absolute Beginners
Itsik Orr
No previous knowledge is required, only guts (heh heh). Actually you don't realy digest the fire so you don't need guts. Just balls. Unless you're female. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that the only thing between being your old boring self and being a fire eater is a psychological barrier. You're welcome to come and overcome.
Cyclic breathing for Absolute Beginners
Itsik Orr
Ever wanted to play a didgeridoo? Or better yet - make an endless farting sound with your lips (go on, admit it, you always craved it)? The dij is the easiest musical melodic instrument I know - once you get the hang of cyclic breathing it's almost as easy as singing. Cyclic breathing can also induce a state of meditative high, almost, but not completely unlike hyper-ventilation. In other words - It's fun, not too hard, and requires no previous knowledge.
The Mathematics of Juggling
Itsik Orr
Warning: Super ultra geeky workshop!
The workshop will start with a brief introduction to juggling. Knowing how to toss 3 balls (and to catch them of course) is not a pre-requisite, but note that Segev and Ofek will be conducting a "how to juggle" workshop prior to this one, and it's recommended that you take it if you're interested in redundant, frustrating and useless activities of this kind. The core of the workshop however will deal not with juggling itself but rather with the mathematics governing it, namely the Siteswap System and how useful it has been since its invention (by three separate people independently, around 1985) for communicating juggling patterns, inventing new ones, and writing realistic simulators for juggling. I'll try to do as little lecturing and as much demonstrating as possible, to minimize the percentage of participants falling asleep before we're over.
Build Your Own Atlas Gloves
by Mushon | language: hand-gestures | url: www.atlasGloves.org
Tags: DIY, hack, interface, controller, Google Earth, Processing, cheap
You are only 10 minutes and $8 (=2 keychain LEDs 2 pingpong balls) away from having your own 'Minority Report'-ish hand-gesture controller (for Google Earth and other apps)
Participants:
Augmented Reality vs. Real Reality
Tal Muskal, (Jan Wieghardt)
In a world where wireless internet connection everywhere, head mounted displays, and visual recognition is not sci-fi anymore, Some very cool applications may be in reach.
In this workshop i am going to introduce Mixed/Augmeneted Reality, a technology which has been around for several years, and i think will become more and more practical over the next few years.
We are going to play with one Augmented Reality Toolkit, and discuss some interesting applications (mainly, applications that you are going to suggest...)
and we will also talk about what the Semantic Web has to offer in this field.
In a second step we will be looking at some applications (such as a ar-based navigationsystems - in simulation) that will be part of consumer products in the near future. We will discuss how to realize the necessary context awareness for such systems and how to sidestep current blocking points.
see you there...
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Superstitious? Innovative?
Either way, you'd want to join this!
Help us create a better world, by inventing gadgets that help the superstitious:
- avoid misfortune
- keep themselves and their family safe from the evil eye
- bring luck to everything they do
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Mountain Biking in Israel: the People, the Places, the Passion
Shimon Schocken
After biking in Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Greece, New England, Australia, Costa Rica and Equador, I am now convinced that Israel is the #1 place in the world for mountain biking. Come see why, and learn how to meet beautiful and powerful women in the trails. By Shimon Schocken, author of the first blog-based book published in Israel.
Back To The Future: Technology in Science Fiction Movies
Ofer Gadish and Gil Shai
What futuristic technologies that were science fiction in the 80s, are feasible today, and how?
If you are intrigued with this question, and want to help answering it, join this workshop.
In order to foster a productive discussion, we reviewed 5 technology-oriented, popular and influential Sci-Fi movies made in the 80s, and classified the innovative technologies by feasibility. We intend to present our analysis results to the audience and trigger a discussion about how to implement those Sci-Fi devices today!
Who sold the Internet and why do weirdos rule?
Alon Cohen
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The Internet, Virginity, a wedding dress and other weird stuff sold at online auctions
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The weirdos economy
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eBay hacks: How to get the best deals and not get ripped, hacks for sellers and the eBay API (web services)
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e-commerce at 2010, or: what would you do if you were running eBay, Amazon or Walmart?
Feel free to add more stuff here
Hacking-the old fashion
Eli Shraga
Locked yourself outside of your house? locked your key inside your car? this is the workshop for you! we will lern and demonstrate the principles of padlocks. we will dismantle and analize some kind of padlocks and will lern many ways of cracking them. You may also bring your own padlocks and we will (hopefully) cracke them.
A Very Slow Liquid Indeed
Melting glass is exciting! One moment you're holding a rod of solid stuff, and the next one (well, a torch is involved) you have this honey-like liquid to play with! It's simply magic!
In this workshop we will learn the basics to understanding glass and safe lampworking.
Phone App Development for the rest of us! --> Python for Series 60
Python is a very powerful but also a very easy language to learn. Many big players use it in the back end (Google included). Over the last 2 years a new and powerful version of Python has been developed and released by Nokia that enables anyone to develop apps for Symbian Series 60 Phones in a very easy and quick fashion.
This workshop will show how easy it is to develop a mobile phone app using this technology and will show examples and tutorials for those who want more. I will bring 2 phones to play with, but anyone with a Nokia S60 phone is welcome to come and install the environment and play with it.
Creative Science 2
Following last year, several more fun DIY toys, from day to day materials, which demonstrate physics principles (taken from a course for kids I have developed)
Shai Abramson
Voice Osciloscope The Magic Tube TV pendulum
Say: NO MORE to the domination of the eye in our interactions with technology.
A KINNERNET 2007 WORKSHOP proudly offered to you by Michal Rinott
Begins: THE AGE OF THE EAR. The age of interactive sound.
This workshop will be divided into two parts:
1/ An expo of the funkiest, coolest, smartest interactive devices that use sound in innovative ways.
A blender you shout at, an audio shaker, finger puppets that howl, things that tap on pizza boxes & more.
2/ How to actually make this stuff (or at least prototype it)
A hands-on intro to MAX / MSP - an exciting environment for creating sound interactions quite easily.
You will make your own personal sound interaction! We will hook up some sensors and such so you can get
input form the real world and use it as input to your interaction.
Hope to see you there, Michal.
Quick Guide To Microsoft Open Source Web Platform
By Shahar Nechmad.
Yes. I know. It's really not cool to develop on the Microsoft platform. Yes. I should be ashamed of myself even mentioning the possibility of using Microsoft technologies. But for those of you, who are willing to listen, I will try and show you how much change Microsoft has gone through in recent years, and why you should take a good look at the new offering such as the new Ajax Platform and ASP.NET.
How to approach and sell your company to Yahoo/Google/Microsoft
Moderator: Gil Ben-Artzy (Yahoo Corp Dev)
Panel members: Mike Marquez (CBS, ex-Yahoo Corp Dev), Nir Bar-Lev (Google Mobile PM), Anil Hansjee (Google Corp Dev), Barak Shein (Microsoft)
Discussion points:
o Process of interacting with corporates
o What the corporates are looking for (technology, talent, etc) current areas of interest
o Thoughts on Israeli start-ups and their specific challenges
o Common mistakes & success stories
The new fundraising ecosystem
Moderator: Simon Levene (Accel)
Panel members: Jason Harinstein (Google Corp Dev) entrepreneur (tbd) VC (tbd)
Discussion points:
o The entrepreneur’s perspective: pros & cons of fund raising vs. selling out earlier
o How VCs and corporates can collaborate or co-exist/benefit from each
Who is the WWW
In the last few days i wondered who is the Web. No. It's not a typo. It's the big question. The Web replaced God but there is something there. Right now i search for the ultimate tool to find the thing inside the Web.
So bring your laptops and i'll bring the software and we'll look into the WWW via the......
by: Yariv Nachshon
Participants: ________________
Paper Hot Air Balloons Workshop!!!!!
By: Yuval Kedem
In around one hour you can build your own hot air balloon to fly that very evening (weather permitting...)
Made entirely of simple materials you will get in the workshop.
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Reflections of 2006: Please add your 2007 stuff above!
- Cheese workshop (by Rafram)
I will present the most comprehensive guide for cheese families, aging and terminology. And, tips on how to buy, cut, taste and keep cheese. bring your own cheese/food.
The Zen of Knitting: The Hand, The Eye, The mind
(hands-on tutorial by indigo)
Learn how to take a break and relax a stressful day.
When your hands and eyes focus on this repetitive, rhythmic activity, You free your mind to effortless, streaming contemplation.
Yes, knitting can be used as a form of meditation.
Knitting will also improve your fine coordination, your concentration abilities, your social skills, your sweaters, your pick-up phrases, and your relationship with grandma.
BTW,
Men knit too. It's trendy! If Russel Crowe can, so can you!
Introduction to Digital Culture Jamming or How can you protest with Barbie?
Nimrod Kozlovski
Culture Jamming is a social movement which opposes the commercial culture of consumption and aims to regain a culture which is created and developed by the people.
As Mark Dery defines Culture Jamming, it operates by “Media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerilla semiotic all in one”.
The workshop will introduce culture jammers, the anti-commercial warriors of the Internet culture and present their modes of operation. We will explore how culture jammers effect the internet culture with handful or innovative toolkit of protest: subvering commercial messages, defacement, domain names hijacking, anti advertisement campaigns, virtual sit-ins, mob protest etc…
So, bring your Barbie dolls with you and make them a tool of online protest…
From Startup to NASDAQ -- Top 10 Lessons Learned
Bob Rosenschein
Answers.com grew from the original GuruNet 1-click popup tool to a question & answer information resource and the 120th most visited site in the US.
The workshop will focus on a few successes and mostly our many pitfalls and mistakes made along the way.
Make Your Own AirZooka
Tom Sofer
We will experiment with an Airzooka , talk about vortex rings , and try to build our own Airzooka variants from a bucket , plastic bag and some stretch cord. Most importantly , we will shoot each other with it.
If your'e interested , please bring an ordinary bucket , and stretch cord if you have (it's those strong black rubber bands used for holding pony tails together). I will try to bring enough material for 3-4 airzookas.
Why are you doing that Second Life shit... (led but Nic Fulton - ping him on nic(dot)fulton(at)reuters(dot)com if you are as sadly delusional as he is...)
A workshop that is led by someone whose company decided to "so that second life shit" and got a ridiculous amount of PR coverage. The leader wants to note that he has a few problems defending the whole project and would prefer that no one blogs about his/her views... However, if you have tried anything in second life, and not got bored of the dominatix/sophamoric nature of the whole thing, then this is the discussion about what it might all mean... It looks like the "augemented reality" angle is being covered. This session is for those that might, might now, might not have yet... but would like to know what might or might not work in Second Life...
OK, I work for Reuters and I led the project in Second Life - but I can not comment on the editorial/journalistis ethical questions that may arise...
An Introduction to Car Hacking
Dan Atzmon
What people do and can do to cars...
Pimp it, make it faster, more efficient, greener, improve the sound - but more than anything else make them more interesting
and get some gadgets on board! Some crazy examples and practical ideas and tools to spice up your ride.
This is just introduction to this world - enter at your own risk ;-)
Sailboats: Make it work (by 
