A physical anchor for open innovation, open source and open culture in Israel

What is the Cantina?

Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:01 by lior

The Cantina is a physical center for open innovation, thought and open source communities.
It is scheduled to be launched in October 2010 in the Jaffo port in Tel Aviv/Jaffo.
Once open it will change the map of the technological meetups and collaberation around open innovation in Israel.

The Cantina is...

  • A place for collaborative digital actors
  • A co-working space
  • A place to produce, test and market innovative projects
  • Events for and by communities
  • A place to learn more about open innovation and open source

We are adopting a french format - LaCantine that has been running successfully for more then 2 years in paris and which consolidated many of the technological communities and open innovation oriented meeting in Paris.

We want to create a center that will be the default place to hold technological meetups, find brilliant and passionate workers, or great partners to brainstorm and create the next "killer startup" in Israel.

רשת הקנטינה - בסיס לאפיון

Posted Thu, 08/26/2010 - 08:04 by zohar

הקנטינה נטוורק תהיה חלק מאתר הקנטינה, כך שכל האינטראקציה איתה תתבצע באתר, כולל הזנת הנתונים וכולל החיפוש והניווט ברשת.
מטרת הרשת - להוות מקום מפגש בין ספקי שירות ובין ארגונים הזקוקים להם, סביב פרוייקטי קוד פתוח - החל ממערכות הפעלה דוגמת לינוקס וכלה באפליקציות לטלפונים סלולריים על בסיס קוד פתוח.
חשוב לי שמי שמחפש ספק שירות ימצא את הספק המתאים לו ביותר. לשם כך, עלינו לדעת כמה שיותר פרטים על הספק. לדוגמה, אין טעם שארגון גדול וכבד יחפש ספקי שירות להטמעה של מרכזיות אסטריקס ב-10 סניפיו ואלפי שלוחותיו ברחבי הארץ, ימצא ברשימת הספקים עוסק פטור כלשהו שרק שיחק עם המערכת. מאידך גיסא, ארגון קטנטן ודל משאבים לא יוכל להרשות לעצמו חברה גדולה שלא ערוכה לטפל בפרוייקטים קטנים מדי... זה ההגיון, כעת יש ליישם אותו.
המבנה שחשבתי עליו

בקשת התמיכה מאיגוד האינטרנט הישראלי

Posted Thu, 07/15/2010 - 08:47 by zohar

אתמול הוגשה הגרסה השניה של בקשת התמיכה מאיגוד האינטרנט הישראלי. הגרסה הראשונה נדחתה והוצע להכניס בה שינויים. נקווה שהיא תתקבל בחיוב!
הבקשה שהוגשה מחדש מצורפת כאן. נשמח לתגובות.

הזמנה לישיבת מליאה של הקנטינה | Invitation to the assembly meeting

Posted Wed, 07/14/2010 - 10:40 by zohar

חברים וקולגות יקרים,

אנו שמחים להזמינכם לישיבת מליאה של הקנטינה. המליאה תיערך ביום ג', ה-27.7.10 בשעה 16:00. המפגש ייערך בחברת NPtech, שהועילה בטובה לאפשר לנו לקיים את המפגש אצלם.

Update on Cantina meeting - June 1st 2010

Posted Thu, 06/03/2010 - 07:32 by zohar

(very) Short summary:

  • Meni will continue the discussion with the Yafo harbour
  • Avigail will prepare a list of proposed events throughout the year
  • Yael (together with Zohar/Lior) will continue creating the Press/Sponsors Kit
  • Everyone - will work on proposed tasks/assignments on the cantina website, to start dispatching more work to other volunteers
  • Money from the French-Israeli assoc. is not coming as fast as we thought it will. We meet the Israeli homolog next week

My personal view on things. This has great promissing future - let's make sure it does happen

Posted Sat, 05/08/2010 - 21:41 by Zohar Babin

Detailed in a long post here -
http://www.zoharbabin.com/la-cantine-israel

Next steps. On how to get this initiative to fruition -
1. Form a strong group that is willing to offer help. Post a public list of the people, what they are willing to do and when, how and what is needed, so everyone will know what can be contributed, how they can collaborate and what is needed to help out. Also, create a call for action badge - A badge to be shared among members of the Cantina. On the page provide a list of action items people can help with.

Founders meeting @jaffo - divide and conquer!

Posted Tue, 05/04/2010 - 21:45 by lior

Well First we exchanged bits and now we're exchanging ideas and finally meeting again.
The founding team (Meni, Zohar, Doron, Nadav, Yael, Avigail, Sami and Me) will meet in thursday at 15:00 in the port and start divided in to groups.
This is a rough draft of what i think (I spoke to Doron eariler) so don;t get to excited if you find yourself in the "wrong" group.

Financial group (raise money through organization and commercial memberships)
- Doron: Enterprise tech vertical
- Avigail: Media, General vertical
- Yael & Lior : Startups

Content scheduling group

Ha Cantina Newsletter No.1

Posted Thu, 04/29/2010 - 13:09 by zohar

To all the Cantina's friends and supporters,

This is our first comprehensive update of what we've done so far. Since our break through and the set-up of the association, we progressed considerably with our plans, but didn't even have the time to report back to everyone...

Sea Demon 2.0

Posted Tue, 04/27/2010 - 19:54 by lior

We're (me & Zohar) back from DrupalCon in San Fransisco with the physical location of the cantina unraveling and things starting to warm up...
We where shown several spaces in the jaffo port and we are focusing on a 300 meter space which used to be a restaurant called - "שד הים" which translates to "Sea Demon".
I visited the place together with Meni and Nadav and we where impressed by the location, the actual space and the positive vibes coming from the team from the port management team.
We received a quote for the cost of the rent and we need to see if we can still optimize it a bit.

Updates

Posted Wed, 04/14/2010 - 19:15 by lior

View Cantina locatins in a larger map

We had a great visit with the french delegation last month and would like to thank again Nicole, Stephane, Sarah and Ori.
We where a bit less vocal and communicative but rest assured we are still around and just getting more and more excited.
We met Sharon Keren the CEO of the Tel Aviv - Jafo Economic Development Authority which is in charge of allocation of physical space and found a deep understanding to our direction and a keen intrest in open innovation and open source.
We will meet him tomorrow in the Jafo port a fascinating area which we scouted during the visit I really hope this place will work out.
This is a place high profile companies will pay to come for..
This is a place which can satisfy a market in tel aviv for small 100-150 venue for conferences.
I really hope this will evolve to be our new home...