for hebrew version of the invitation Yossi VardiDecember 2005 Invitation to Kinnernet
2006 – An Israeli Net Camp
Hello and welcome! This is a free, private and closed event, by invitation only. This invitation cannot be transferred. Sadly, due to space constraints, we are unable to invite all the many good candidates that we would have liked, so please refrain from suggesting additional candidates, as it only causes unnecessary disappointments. We would like you to treat the event as private and keep it under the general radar (blog mentioning after the event is OK ) . Please Don’t invite other people to meet you within the compounds of the camp. For the same reason, we regret that we cannot accommodate spouses. Who else is invited? Some 150 people are invited along with yourself, all of whom are Internet addicts, from many different net-related backgrounds and occupations. Our attendees are interested in R&D, programming, internet culture, web site development, the blogosphere, online forums, social networks, chat services, instant messaging, P2P, search engines, web services, Wi-Fi, Open Source, electronic mail, infrastructure and access services, cellular services, computer gaming, interactive TV, VoIP, new trends and technologies, gadgets, security, robotics, digital art and many other topics. (We would like to emphasize that the event is not intended to deal with business issues but rather as a meeting place for the discussion of culture, content, net technology and its future). The Camp's format is inspired among others by a similar camp - the very successful Foo Camp, established in the US by Tim O'Reilly, owner of O'Reilly publishing house. The basic premise is that the camp's participants are the camp's content, and it follows that the camp's program is mostly set up by its participants. Except for a few topics proposed in advance by the organizers, the schedule is for the participants to define. Meeting rooms of varying sizes will be available simultaneously, and each participant is welcome to reserve a time and room for his topics on a large schedule board. Participants will freely move among the rooms and topics based solely upon their interest (and common courtesy and politeness). Thus, the camp's schedule will continuously change for the duration of the event. The informal atmosphere and the freedom to express (and absorb) ideas will, hopefully bring about a continuous state of interaction, turning the camp into a lively and fruitful forum (see: impressions of Kinnernet 2005). One of the important criteria to be eligible to participate in the camp is the participant’s active contribution, as the all-important creation of a personal page in the camp’s Wiki, taking part in outdoor activity and in organizing as well as participating in meetings and discussions. Man does not live on net alone. The camp will also address other aspects of creativity. Ahuzat Ohalo - available to us on an exclusive basis for the duration of the camp - is an ideal location for such activity. We will have access to a sizeable turf area, a podium, and a large clubroom. As in last year's event, participants will initiate all sorts of activities - discussions, workshops, the What's Cool marathon, outdoor activities (don’t forget training gear and clothing!), an internet and computer gaming club, robot exhibits, an air show, an evening of music, films and performances, the gadget Olympics and more topics and activities that your imagination can come up with. Have more ideas for activities? Let us know, or better - let everybody know in KinnerNet 2006's Wiki. Please bring along the projects you created, your musical instruments, computer and computer games, video films and clips, audio-visual (or other) presentations and installations, toys, kites, telescopes, table tennis rackets, chess and other board games, magic tricks and so on and so forth. Official event web site. Please visit the KinnerNet 2006 Wiki. The Wiki is an online tool which enables easy access to adding and modifying content. You are the Wiki site's editors! For the sake of keeping our Wiki clean, the wiki editing function is password protected, (sent to you in the invitation letter). Once you get confirmation of your registration, your assigned password will be activated at the wiki site. Please Do not transfer this password to anyone. Once you are confirmed, when you enter the Wiki, you will find your name in the participants list - please add a short Sentence about yourself. When you click on your name at the participate list , you will also find a special personal page opened for you under your name - you are asked to fill this page with personal information and to add a picture of yourself, so other participants may get to know you. Please write in the appropriate Wiki’s camp sections, topics and subjects which you are interested to discuss, present or speak about (you can always return and modify them later). Also, please add your name (and comments) to activities you would like to take part in. Send suggestions, comments and questions to the camp content director Ami Ben Bassat. To-bring list. Every participant is requested to bring at list one item intended for the enjoyment of others. This may be a technological object, contributing to the camp's content and/or objects for general atmosphere, usefulness and fun: gadgets, computer games, gadgets, toys, electronic appliances of every type, flying machines, robots, playing instruments. One of the sessions will be a Show and Tell, where participants will share and explain their attachment to a specific toy. We will have a wireless network on site (we would most appreciate if you help by contributing hardware or installation know-how). Language. This year the camp will be bilingual - Hebrew and English. Since we expect some 35 guests from overseas and all Israeli participants are fluent in English, the person who offers to hold a session has the right to choose either of the two languages. Notwithstanding, all sessions offered by our guests from abroad will be in English. In Addition, we will make sure that during the session times,there will be always at least one session in English taking place in one of the discussion rooms. Since the evening and outdoors programs (Gizmothon on Thursday and xtravaganza on Friday ) will be conducted mostly in Hebrew, we will offer a commentator/translator in English. Logistics. An arrival instructions map is
attached. (Note: the event will take place at Ahuzat Ohalo on the
shores of the Kinneret and NOT in the Ohalo College in Katzrin).
Transportation offers and requests should be posted on the ride
share Wiki page. Board. Full board is included, starting with
ice cream and crepes on Thursday 4 PM and ending with ice cream and
crepes on Saturday 5:30 PM, through 3 meals a day as well as coffee
and cakes along the way. After dinner a "snack corner" will
also be available. For the religious among us: Ohalo is a Kosher
location; you may stay in Ahuzat Ohalo until the Sabbath is
over. Contact Person: Gilli Cegla volunteered to act as the camp’s foreign guests director. He will be happy to assist you. Feel free to contact him at gilli@novawind.com or at his phone number: +972-544-543010. more information for our guests from abroad you can find at 2006.kinnernet.com/participantsfromabroad Please let us know within a week from receipt of this email if you will participate, or not. Please email your confirmation (or decline). If you reply positively, you will have to register within a week in the Oscar site. No-reply is considered as a negative reply and your place will not be reserved.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ami Ben Bassat and the rest of the volunteers whose help is invaluable in organizing the event; to the Oscar company for producing the event voluntarily; and to the Ahuzat Ohalo management.
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