Fascinating story:
“I am not putting an act,” she says, “I was head of the student council in my high school, I commanded over 90 soldiers in the army. You get a lot of experience, and with the experience comes the self-confidence”.
From haaretz.com.
Late night snack (lafa, not pita) – and the equivalent of the NYC 2-eggs-on-a-roll 😉
I’m excited to be attending WordCamp Jerusalem this Sunday. Check out the lovely sidebar graphic on this blog 😉
I attended WordCamp Tel-Aviv nearly two years ago, and happy to be back in Israel again for this event.
Our company Automattic will be well represented at this WordCamp — myself, Barry, Yoav, and Matt will all be speaking at this event, and Ran will be attending as well.
Good morning from Tel-Aviv !
I’ll be attending WordCamp Israel in a couple of hours and giving a quick presentation as well. I’ll update this post later in the day with the slides and hopefully some video footage too.
update: Great seeing everyone and hope my presentation was helpful. We don’t have the video yet, but below is the Keynote/PPT using Slideshare. I also generally go more visual on the slides with a photo and just a word or two, but knowing that I was going to embed it, I made it a bit more verbose.
( Download PDF version of the presentation & a cool visual representation of the presentation by dibau naum h on flickr plus the WordCamp Israel 2008 flickr pool )
Also a few things people at WC Tel Aviv didn’t seem to know about that are helpful:
Thanks to Tal, Noa, Elad Salomons, and Itai Nathaniel and all the organizers and volunteers for a great WordCamp.
WordCamp Israel will be held this year on November 16th, 2008 (english language link).
Already 250+ people have registered and looks like it will be a great event. I plan on attending and helping out where I can.
The focus this year is:
…to discuss the usage of WordPress as a tool for social change and community involvement, and to strengthen the connection between the WordPress community and non-profits.
Additional goals of the conference:
- To strengthen the ties between Israeli WordPress users
- To grow the Israeli WordPress community
- To increase people’s technical understanding of WordPress
As many of you know, these kinds of events are only possible with the hard work of volunteers and the generosity of sponsors. If you are interested in either drop a note to info@wordcamp.co.il.
[ WordCamp Israel ]
Israel Makes Strong TC50 Showing:
Israel seems to have been the country with the single biggest foreign contingent at TC50 with no less than 6 of the 50 companies presenting on stage. Some more Israeli startups could be found in the demo pit, the exhibition space and just walking around the venue floor shopping for investors, customers and partners.
Plus the demo pit winner iamnews makes 7 out of 52 total I believe. Pretty impressive !
Nice write up (in hebrew) in the top israeli newspaper Haaretz on why WordPress is the best choice for blogging.
They walk you through the basics of what it takes to setup ( self install from WordPress.org ) including MySQL requirements, getting an ftp client, and making the config file changes. Next week they plan to cover plugins. Good stuff ! (Thanks to my buddy Nimmy for letting me know).
We’ve seen lots of great activity in Israel around WordPress, including a very successful WordCamp Israel held a few weeks ago.
One of the great things about WordPress is seeing how it’s being used around the world. From the various language translations to hosted versions the level of engagement and creativity is super impressive.
A great example is what’s happening in Israel. The WordPress community in Israel is now organizing a WordCamp (english blog) on Oct 25th, 2007 in Tel Aviv. I’m sure it’s going to be a great event, and looking forward to seeing when the next one will be held — I’d love to attend 🙂
From their blog:
About WordCamp Israel
WordCamp is coming to Israel on Oct. 25 in Tel Aviv! Lorelle is the keynote speaker, and the lectures and panels will be covering topics like WordPress installation, blogging for business, and more.
First time I haven’t attended the US Open in New York in years, but watching it live on HD is pretty good 🙂
Huge win tonight for Shahar Peer of Israel, and great to see Blake advance too.
Raanan Bar-Cohen 
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