<div dir="ltr">On Monday (TOMORROW), July 25th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Tomer Ashur reveal :<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div> How to Spread Knowledge Throughout the World While Wearing Only Your Slippers<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div>
<div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">(or Wik</span>i<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">media, Wikipedia and free content projects)</span></div><div><br></div>
<div>Abstract</div><div><br></div><div><div>Since its first emergence in 2001, Wikipedia had grown drastically to become the fifth most viewed website over the Internet in 2012. With over 12,000,000 articles in more than 250 languages this is now the largest source of information ever existed. The Wikimedia foundation has been founded in 2003 as a non-profit organization to support Wikipedia as well as other online and offline free content projects.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>Slides are available: <a href="http://haifux.org/lectures/260/">http://haifux.org/lectures/260/</a></div><div>=================================================================</div><div><br></div>
<div>We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see:</div><div><a href="http://www.haifux.org/where.html" target="_blank">http://www.haifux.org/where.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Attendance is free, and you are all invited!</div><div><br></div><div>==================================================================</div><div>Future lectures:</div><div><br></div><div>22/8/2011 Happy Birthday - Haifux is 12 years old! To celebrate the event we will have a lightning talk session. If you have a pet project, if you got something nice you would like to share, if you have anything for show-and-tell - this is your chance. anything of free spirit or general software/hardware curiosity fits, as long as it is of interest to Haifux members. Please send lightning talk proposals to <a href="mailto:webmaster@haifux.org">webmaster@haifux.org</a>.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>....Several slots for YOU to fill....</div><div> ......and then ....</div></div><div>November-December 2011: 4 talks about practical GPGPU programming from Ofer Rosenberg of AMD Israel. the talks will cover AMD's GPGPU architecture, openCL, case studies, dos and don'ts, and tools and profiling for performance.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Upcoming August events in Haifa and Israel:</div><div><br></div><div>4/8/2011 Wikipedia academy, in Haifa <a href="http://wikimedia.org.il/Conf11" target="_blank">http://wikimedia.org.il/Conf11</a> </div>
<div>4-7/8/2011 Wikimania 2011, in haifa, Israel <a href="http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a> </div>
<div>12/8/2011 August Penguin 2011: <a href="http://www.hamakor.org.il/2011/07/08/%D7%94%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9F-2011/" target="_blank">http://www.hamakor.org.il/2011/07/08/%D7%94%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9F-2011/</a></div>
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<div><br></div><br>-- <br>Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.<br><a href="http://ladypine.org" target="_blank">http://ladypine.org</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.<br><a href="http://ladypine.org">http://ladypine.org</a><br>
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