e spirit of sharing and collaboration, we are going to run a
track of workshops on Friday and Saturday.
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,
· Other ideas from Kinnernet2004
- AJAX: A Practical Tutorial
How to Code a Web Chat System in 60 Minutes
by Eli Marmor, in Hebrew (slides and examples in
English, code in JavaScript)
The new (?)
revolution which aims to
change everything you've ever known about the
web, and is the main star behind
"Web 2.0", will be presented in a live (coding and)
demonstration.
While a knowledge of JavaScript
is required to understand the internals of the examples and in
order to learn how to take advantage of AJAX
for your needs,
everybody else is welcome too to be
impressed by the examples, and to learn how AJAX gives better
results for less effort.
Sailboats:
Make it work (by Ezri
Tarazi)
Following the human sailing achievements in the Dead Sea, we'll do
a workshop how to build a data-carrying sailing boat. You can then
work on your own in the Garage.
- Sailboats: Make it
work fast (by Nir
Shental)
How to make good boats
great.
- Risotto workshop
(by Rafram Chaddad):
After
Thursday night, you will all know how to make a divine
risotto.
I will use Carnaroli rice from
Acquerello
(aged for 3 years). We are going to put different
ingredients (as green apples, mushrooms, aubergines, lemons and
monkey brain) and stocks to make the best risotto ever. Thursday
night, after the Gadgethone, outside.
- 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.
A Yoga Workshop for Beginners (by
Rami
Guissin)
Iyengar Yoga Class: Basic poses
(Asanas) and breathing (Pranayama) exercises. Discussion of Yogic
principles and an open
discussion.
Scientific toys
from simple
materials
(by Shai Abramson) : some
samples from a course I am running for kids, to get to know sciene
through toys building. Materials needed : empty drink cans, film cans, CDs and
used electronic lighters :
Boomerang Can
Spectroscope
Toilette spray
cannon
-
The workshop
for the confused Internet entrepreneur
Learn from the experience of others to make your start-up better -
True stories and personal
testimonials
-
We still don't see it today and we are
likely to miss what it will grow into over the next 10
years.
Who would have
thought:
•
Who imagined it would be like this? We will talk about some great
ideas that was not invisioned by anyone 10 years ago.
The Future That
Was:
• Once
there was this great idea, I guess it just wasn’t the right
timing... The great ideas that should have worked! We will be
taking another look at old ideas that have been a few years ahead
of their time and see if they could still suceed.
When is the right time for the right
idea?
A few parameters of good timing.Ingenuity,
Packaging and Users
Feedback
Visual AJAX with Tersus
Demo/hands-on tutorial by Youval
Bronicki
See the magic of real visual
programming using the open source Tersus Platform
.
- Watch a demo or try it yourself on your own laptop
(we'll begin with installation for those interested)
- We'll select the demo application based on
participants' suggestions (bring your own ideas).
Hands-on Cryptopgraphy
Who needs a
computer,
anyway?
Learn how to encrypt
visual images in a way that the NSA can't break, but even a child
can decrypt without a computer! Perform perfectly secure voting
using PEZ candies! Solve a difficult romantic dilemma using a deck
of playing
cards!
We will begin with
a brief talk about the kind of cryptography you can do without a
computer, and their operating principles. We'll then have a
hands-on session, in which you'll create your own cryptographic business
card.
Organized by
Elad
Barkan and Eran
Tromer
.
See the details and
equipment needed in
the GarageBuildIt
item .
- Improve a website's marketing power
(mainly by viral but also other proven means). In
January 2005, Bob introduced answers.com to the
world. Today (less than 18 months later), it is in the
top 250 most popular websites in the world. During this
workshop, the group will pick an online service (e-commerce,
content etc.) and think of ways for improving its ability to draw
new users... Moderated by Bob Rosenschein and Mark Tebbe with
participation from: < ADD Your Name
>
You can suggest here site that you want
to nominate for examination:
- <Add URL of Site you suggest to be
examined >
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…
Add your own
workshop
here!
