What happens when dozens of Google Developer Groups meet?
Last week Elad Gelman and I were invited to attend the first gathering of Google Developer Group leads from all over the MENAT region (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey). In this post we’d like to share some of the unique moments we had in the regional summit. The settings put us in the imperial headquarters of the historic Ottoman Bank, now home to the beautiful SALT Galata venue you can see in this post’s cover photo.
Here’s a quick walkthrough of the top 5 experiences we had during these two…
Last weekend we’ve gathered on a mission to make a friend’s dream come true — bringing Mortal Kombat to life but instead of gentle keystrokes, we’ve been throwing hardcore kicks and punches, blazing fire through kick ass combos and messing around with power tools. Boom.
This was the tenth year GeekCon, an unconference for hacking the digital lifestyle, takes place in Israel and gathers the nation’s makers, designers, hackers and engineers under one strict rule of teaming up to build a useless project. Other rules are optional. Oh, and you have to sign a legal waiver to get in. …

Some kind of monster @takipid — God mode in production code. GDG Haifa lead. @TechnionLive IE&M alumni.