whats next?

Well after being rejected by PresenTense, I’m guessing all the millions of you are asking the big question "what's next??"..

Don’t worry that was not the only thing I was working on, I had a few meetings with new and that I already met people.. avi warshavski was very nice but in the bottom line I realized how messy I am (big surprise). Now I'm thinking how to organize things.
Problems that I am facing (like.. now!):

• How and where can I organize the people that I'm in touch with now. And organize myself as well.
• How to engage people to contribute and be part of the project. Because its very easy for me to get people interested, but it gets stuck there..
• I have no knowledge in computing and internet, I'm looking for somebody. Anybody! That’s why I can’t take any big step in making the web site..

Want to help? Just contact me, by twitter..

ho!!! and i decided on a name: פה אל פה or m2m. As in p2p.. It's a quote:

לא כֵן, עַבְדִּי מֹשֶׁה: בְּכָל-בֵּיתִי, נֶאֱמָן הוּא. (ח) פֶּה אֶל-פֶּה אֲדַבֶּר-בּוֹ, וּמַרְאֶה וְלֹא בְחִידֹת, וּתְמֻנַת יְהוָה, יַבִּיט;

במדבר י"ב ז-ח

Not so is My servant Moses; he is faithful throughout My house.8. With him I speak mouth to mouth; in a vision and not in riddles, and he beholds the image of the Lord. So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses

Bamidbar - Numbers - Chapter 12 7-8

what do you think?

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finally, i sent it!!!!!!!!!!

this is the application form i sent to PresenTense summer institute:



What is your main goal as an innovator?

To bring radical breakthroughs by creating platforms that will encourage free, creative and collaborative thinking using the internet.

Tell us something about yourself (something we couldn't tell from your resume)

I enjoy getting to know new and different people, hearing new ideas, music and travelling to new places

Project Information

Give us your best pitch!

What is your venture's mission?

To create an open independent platform for promoting, encouraging and developing new approaches to Jewish texts, through collaborative thinking and creative synergy.


What is unique or innovative about your venture?

The venture consists of promoting open creative transparent collaborative wiki style-dialogues around Jewish texts, in order to help construct communities that can davelop, store and use their own interpretations for personal and group growth. I aim to create a platform that will be open to all with no restrictions, which will produce an ongoing online flow of thoughts-opinions and questions that will start a continuous sinergetic exchange of opinions and knowledge. This collaborative thinking will create new ideas, inerpetations and establish a wide body of collective knowledge that will be constantly growing and developing. this open sharing platform will also allow the encounters between learned scolars and lay people, people from different religious backgrounds and approaches to the Jewish texts. This open platform will give people the opportunity to express themselves in a non judgemental and secure environment joining in this way the creation of shared interpretations. The nature of the activity, the content, and the entire development of the website will be determined by its' users in an unrestricted, easy and comfortable fashion while not being subject to any kind of limitation, control or filtering externally imposed.

How would you define the current stage of your venture?

(i had just a few options to pick from) I've discussed the project with family, friends and a few mentors and they are encouraging me to pursue.

How do you plan to cover the costs of your venture?

This is a major challenge to my venture as an accurate evaluation of costs has to be prepared once I will be able to plan, in detail, all the necessary steps needed. I believe that the total amount needed will be raised in a fundrasing campaign using various approaches which I hope to learn in your program.

What do you hope to gain from the Institute? How will the Institute affect your venture?

I hope to profit very significantly from participation in the Institute's summer program in order to help translate my ideas into reality. It is vital and fundemental for me to acquire the tools necessary to carry this out, from planning to fundraising skills, from tools necessary for transforming visions and concepts into a dynamic independent and living web site. I expect the institute program to assist me in planning the necessary steps for setting up my innovative project, both technicaly and conceptually. All this will be possible largely by intense and widespread networking, getting to know people from different backgrounds and experiences, sharing with them perceptions, analysing options and developing suitable solutions for our mutual benefit.

Community Involvement
We are building the Jewish Community’s next generation of pioneers. Therefore, the PresenTense Fellowship is as much about realizing the community's potential as it is about the individual project

Tell us your vision of the future of the Jewish community

In the reality of the post-modern world the Jewish comunity which wants to maintain and increase its relevance will have to change its emphasis from the physical location and to become more active-open-free-transparent and collaborative in a virtual, comprehensive, supporting platform. in a global world the individual will be able to be part of different communities built around varied common interests through the internet. this will also be the reality for the Jewish communities around the world.

What particular skills or talents do you have that you can contribute to the group and the work of your peers? (i.e. graphic design, programming, budgeting expertise, etc.)

The following are my qualities which I can contribute to the group and the work of my peers:
Creative and unconventional thinking
Open mindness
Knowledge of Jewish texts
Team player
Empathy
Non judgemental aproach to others
Attentive to small details


:)
i'm hopeing for the best.....

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haloooooo la la la..

well, its been a while since I last wrote, but it doesn't mean there were no developments..

four days ago i had a meeting with the site director of midreshet Hagit Bartuv. we had a long talk about the meaning of a site like this, and she was very moved by the idea. she said she would think about it and be in touch with me with her thoughts and possible new contacts.. for starters she gave me a few phone numbers of people that can be realy interested like Avi Warshavsky.

on thursday i met Brachie from presentense and she told me i should apply to the summer institute... she told me it could help me a lot in gaining tools, connections, and friends that can help me.. there is also a program that helps projects like ours by connecting them with mentors.. it sounds like a good place to me.. i'm pretty excited about working with them :)


well, i think i should update the blogg more often, its a promise... ;-P

heyy!!!!!

Hello everybody, this is my first post (if you hadn't noticed) about our new big project...

we dont have a name yet but its starting to roll on.

It all started last Monday when I finally understood that I had to do something, so I wrote to my friends on our Otniel google group, and published this very short vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IObnMYG5sD0

It's about the future of the Internet and other stuff, very interesting..

It has evolved into a conversation. I was just trying to create a buzz (it worked)...

So first of all, I met yedidya Lau at his home, we had gr8 talk and he said he is totally into the idea.. and he is the son of Rabbi Benny Lau so that's good for us, contacts are goooood.. :)

I also met with Ori Sheinin, a good friend, and a good mind to think with.. so he is in as well...

The week after I met yohanan mali and sivan cohen in the central bus station in jerusalem, and they were very enthusiastic about it.. that's very good..

shlomo schwartz was the next person I met. He works (for now) in the jewish agency and has alot of contacts with people in israel and abroad that he thinks will be happy to help. ho! and that was over a very nice lunch in Topolino near the shuk (http://sf.tapuz.co.il/shirshur-551-124576300.htm)...

Another person I met was Alan Rosenbaum, a very nice person that works for davka (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Davka-Corporation/308028585695?ref=sgm#/pages/Davka-Corporation/308028585695?v=info&ref=sgm)

so that's going well i have alot more to write but that's for now, i'll keep you posted :)