Hi there, Open Coffee-lovers! Wanna hang out with a like-minded crowd, and generally have tons of fun on Wednesday evening, to get in the right mood before Thursday’s OCKRK?   Good, in that case we have a really strong proposition for you. Head to The Stage to see the comeback of Krakspot, the oldest barcamp in Kraków. In the same spirit that Hive gave its support to concepts like Open Coffee Krakow, Open Coffee is now supporting the Krakspot relaunch, under the leadership of Kamil Łopata

Krakspot took a lenghty hiatus a couple of months ago. But now it’s here again and it wants to make a really strong comeback. So, what’s the agenda? One that’s pretty fun to listen about: failures. In business. In life. In general. And how to cope with them or even avoid them. So if you want to hear Richard Lucas Paweł Nowak and Piotr Zając speaking not only how to make money, but also how to lose it (with style), Krakspot is the place to be on  Wednesday. But it’s not all about the keynotes. The networking is going to be a huge part of the refined Krakspot, so get ready for meeting a host of new people and participating in icebreaking games. Be there early if you want to experience it.


The decision was made to make this upcoming event a real revolution for Krakspot, but of course not everything is going to change. The formula might be a bit different, but you can still count on pizza and beer - no surprises here. So, what else is there to say? See you on Wednesday: Open Coffee team certainly will be.

At the last Hive53 this year we will stop for a moment and make a quick startup summary. If you don't know how to start your startup you should definitely come! We meet on Friday, 6th of December at The Stage, Lobzowska 3 at 7.00pm. 

Let us know that you're coming here (we'll have some gifts from Santa for you so you should come!).

Our guest this evening will be Filip Drimalka who has been engaged in activities in the field of marketing, business development and innovation for over ten years. He has launched  several projects (e.g. easytask.cz, know-how-klub.cz or www.customer-point.cz). Filip is also an advisor at hub:raum Kraków


Filip will tell us more how to:
1. Validate your ideas for new projects or services directly with your market. 
2. Go through the process of getting to first customers using templates, crowd-sourcing and international outsourcing. 
3. Build trust with new customers (even if you don't have product yet),
4. What growth hacking techniques you should use to find out whether your new project will be rocking the world or not. 

Last but not least...you will learn about many online services that can be used for effective business development (apps, A/B testing, outsourcing, time tracking, emailing, live chats etc.).

If you're in sign up at Facebok page.

ps.
Besides great workshop you will have a chance to meet folks from all around the Europe that came for hub:raum Krakow WARP 2013

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We meet on the 6th of November at Google for Entrepreneurs, Rynek Główny - Pasaż 13. This time we start a bit earlier though - at 5:30pm - so please save the date and don’t be late! 

Register here: http://www.ockrk.co/hive53/72

During our second meeting we will focus on legal issues for mobile and video game developers. 

We will basically break down the game into smaller parts such as idea, code, design, audio, copy, in-game/in-app purchases, date bases... and tell you what exactly and more importantly, how you can protect it in the smartest way. 

As our special guest we'll host Przemysław Walasek from Tylor and Wessing - an international law firm specializing in IT law in the gaming industry. 

More about Przemysław: 
Przemysław graduated from the European University of Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He is responsible for Intellectual Property in Taylor Wessing e|n|w|c. He has extensive experience in advising clients regarding all legal aspects of e-business, new technologies, copyrights, including entrepreneurs specialising in on-line. He represents clients in cases regarding internet domains and breaches in coded TV security systems. He has taken part in many internet start-ups and advised entrepreneurs on copyrights fees to organisations.
He specialises in copyrights, e-business and corporate issues.

The Global Entrepreneurship Week is coming soon! Better check the agenda at our strategic partner's website: Urząd Marszałkowski.
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Are you interested in startup communities?

Our friends from hub:raum Krakow are! They are going for a big trip across Central and Eastern Europe to explore different startup communities there.

 Just imagine 4 days of intensive travelling, meeting new people, sharing the knowledge and experiences. How cool is that? 

All Krakow's team - Kuba, Luka, Cosmin, Lukasz, Filip and Grzegorz will visit 12 countries including: Austria, Estonia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia.

Why they are doing it? 

The main aims of this startup journey is networking and establishing strong relations with startuppers, developers, mentors, as well as incubator and universities’ representatives. During the meetings hub:raum Krakow team will share the idea of the incubator and will look for the best ideas across Europe.

Hope they will bring some fresh ideas (or even teams with fresh ideas) to their innovation incubator in Krk.

They are going to travel a lot. However, if you are going to spend holidays in Central and Eastern Europe as well - join the crew at one of the events and places below.

Meet Jakub Probola, head of hub:raum Krakow in the following cities:

• 01.10 | Bratislava | The Spot
• 02.10 | Vienna | sektor5
• 03.10 | Brno
• 03.10 | Prague | Node5
• 04.10 | Ostrava | Meeting local startup communities

Meet Luka Sucic, the Evangelist at hub:raum Krakow in the following cities:

• 26-27.09 | Budva | Spark.me 
• 30.09 | Zagreb | ZipZg
• 02.10 | Osijek | BIOS
• 03.10 | Rijeka
• 04.10 | Ljubljana

Meet Cosmin Ochisor, Liaison Manager at hub:raum Krakow and Grzegorz Banaś, Chief Analyst in the following cities:

• 01.10 | Timișoara | Cowork
• 02.10 | Sofia | Betahaus
• 03.10 | Bucharest | Open Connect Event
• 04.10 | Bucharest | Meeting local startup communities
• 07.10 | Cluj-Napoca | Meeting local startup communities

Meet Łukasz Ciesla, Operational Manager and Filip Debowski, Event and Communication Manager in the following cities: 

• 30.09 | Vilnius | Lithuanian Startup Founder Meetup 
• 01.10 | Vilnius | Hub Vilnus
• 02.10 | Riga | Tech Hub
• 03.10 | Tallinn | Garage 48
• 04.10 | Tallinn | Meeting local startup communities

If you want to find out more about startup communities in specific city follow guys from hub:raum Krakow on Facebook and Twitter or just contact them!

Bees,
We've  all been waiting for this! On the 23rd of September our good friends from Estimote will share their experiences from Y-Combinator during the Estimote@YC Swarm!

The meetup will take place at The Stage, Lobzowska 3

We will start at 6pm - please come on time and save the seats!

Kuba and Łukasz are on fire right now! After Y-C Demo Day they've been working like crazy (even more than before) but they want to tell you about their journey and plans for the nearest future. They will answer all your questions: How it's been? How's the product going? How is the team doing? and more...

Save the date and let us know that your coming on our FB event page!

For those who needs a little introduction:
Jakub Krzych, CEO & Co-Founder

Graduated from Jagiellonian University with an MSc degree in applied computer science and a Bch in computational physics. For four years, served as a board member and as the Head of Product at AdTaily, the self-service advertising network that he co-founded and sold to the largest CE media group.

Łukasz Kostka, CTO & Co-Founder

Graduated from AGH University of Science and Technology with an MSc degree in computer science in control and management and, right after graduation, started his PhD research on Smart Cities. A data scientist and hacker who likes to mix cutting edge technology with great design to solve real world problems.

Join us!
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Bees - we have a surprise for you. After a series of Summer Swarms we decided to prepare a new set with a huge doze of knowledge. This autumn you will have a chance to finally understand all the mysterious LAW issues.

Together with The Flying Mind Foundation we have prepared a series of meetings with outstanding lawyers. 

#1 Legal Swarm will take place on the 18th of September at Google for Entrepreneurs, Rynek Główny - Pasaż 13. We start at 6pm - please save the date and don’t be late!

What is it all about?
The project is set to improve legal awareness and information supply within the startup community in Krakow and to provide the best possible legal knowledge and advise in fields such as intellectual property, investment contracts, databases legal protection, ect.

As our first exceptional guest we'll host Łukasz Węgrzyn - a lawyer specializing in intellectual property.

Łukasz will talk about common legal issues for startups, giving you valuable tips about what you need to know before you start.

More about Łukasz:
Lawyer specializing in intellectual property, media and new technology law. Former in-house lawyer at Agora S.A. and MTV Networks. Presently working at Maruta i Wspólnicy sp.j in Warsaw.  

Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University and postgraduate studies at the "Law of New Technologies" held at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently a PhD student at the University of Warsaw.

Passionate about new technologies, history and tennis.

Come and join us! Register here or let us know you're coming on fb page.

The end is really close...let's celebrate it at last Summer Chill Swarm on 28th of August! (last this year;)

This time we ask you to register through ockrk (thanks to our friends Marta and Aliaksei)

Link for registration: http://www.ockrk.co/hive53/59

Yay! It's a holiday time...well at least for some of you;)

Hive's bees are working hard for whole year to bring you a bunch of new inspiring speakers to our swarms. 

We meet again on 16th of July (Tuesday) at The Stage, Lobzowska 3 at 6pm!

If you want to participate join on our Facebook event!

This month we decided to make a serious swarm with not-all-the-time serious guests. So we invited two (actually tree) absolutely worth-noting individuals that will tell you more about the value that they bring to the Internet World. 

Krzysztof Gonciarz hilarious guy with amazing sense of humor. Krzystof is a journalist who knows everything about gaming. He is also a popular web-videos producer and author of books about Internet (he wrote an Internet guide for Idiots;)). He will talk about his alter-egos and how he created profiles that gather milions of viewers.

Before Gonciarz's presentation, we will host pretty awesome duo on our stage or we should rather write pretty and awesome duo. Kasia Bojanowska and Joanna Socha met at primary school for the first time. Then they went to the same highschool and both started thinking about their design careers. 

They worked a lot through the year (Socha as an architect, Kasia as a poster designer at ASP) and finally they met again. They started to work for Applicake and discovered pair designing. Finally when Ela Madej misspelled the word "underwear" by saing "uNERDwear" they decided to turn it into a product idea - underwear for nerds. 
Socha and Kasia will tell you that "its not a joke anymore" and how they preparing for the global launch using Internet tools like noone before in textile industry.

So come and chill with us on 16th of July at The Stage at 6pm!

We have awesome news for you bees! We’re so excited to announce that our very special guest at next Hive53 meet up will be Joel Spolsky. Yep, that Joel - the guy behind StackOverflow, Trello and FogBugz :)

Together with our friends from KGD.Net we’ll be hosting Joel on the 17th of May at The Stage, Lobzowska 3. 

We start at 6pm - please save the date and don’t be late!

Joel is coming to Krakow to speak at the GeeCON conference and he also really wants to meet our biz and dev community so it will be a great chance to talk, ask and find out more about his entrepreneurial journey.

Joel Spolsky is the founder and CEO of Stack Exchange (company behind StackOverflow.com), is a globally recognized expert on software development. His website Joel on Software is popular with programmers around the world. In 2000, he founded his first company, Fog Creek Software, which creates project management tools for software developers and most recently launched a group project management sharing tool, Trello. Prior to this, Joel worked at Microsoft, where he designed VBA as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, where he developed an Internet client used by millions. He has written three books, including "Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent" and worked as a contributing editor for Inc. Magazine. Joel graduated from Yale University with a Computer Science degree and is also a world-renowned speaker. Before college, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper and helped found Kibbutz Hanaton.

If you want to participate let us know and join on our Facebook event!

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The TED and TEDx fans travel and meet up club, which was announced as a community announcement at TEDxWarsaw, is having a joint meet up with Couchsurfers on 23rd April in Artefakt fron 1830. This is the first time that such a meeting has ever happened anywhere, so this is a Krakow Start Up

We are using the registration system of Open Coffee Krakow which now has registration by Facebook and Linkedin, If you use this, we will know if we have more TEDx-ers or Couchsurfers.

Please just register on the Couchsurfing or Facebook events.

What is the big idea ?

Bringing the world of Couchsurfing and TED/TEDx together.
a start up movement that can change the lives of those involved for the better.

People who are into TED.com and TEDx are pretty cool. The goal of TED and TEDx is spreading great ideas. More than a billion TED talks have been viewed on the internet since TED went viral, and some famous TED talks are about
Couchsurfing and similar movements. If you have never seen a TED talk then watch and listen to Amanda Palmer – The Art of Asking

Ralph Talmont, Paul Klipp, Ewa Spohn Krystian Aparta and hundreds of other volunteers have got the TEDx and TED movement going in Poland, and put in a huge amount of work in organising the first TEDx events and Open Translation project.

People who are into Couchsurfing are pretty cool too. There are over 17,000 Couchsurfers in Krakow, and 6 million people belong world wide. Couchsurfers hang out and stay with each other for free when they travel, and organise regular meet ups.

Both groups are early adopters of the new world order of trust, giving and co-operation. The TED.com and TEDx Fans Travel and Meetup Club aims to bring the good things in these communities together.

This meetup will be a chance to watch TED talks, learn share and integrate. Will it turn into a regular event, will it spawn spin offs and copies. It’s very much in the hands of those who attend.

If this works you can be anywhere on planet earth and get to hang out with people who have the values of Couchsurfing and the optimism and mission of TED This group was launched on Couchsurfing in January here went public in March with a launch on the TEDxWarsaw stage.


Neither TEDx nor Couchsurfers tend to be shy but we will be organising ice breaker and introductions.

If anyone attending the meeting wants to make a non commercial community announcement, we will try to make it possible. here is the programme

Tuesday 23rd April from 18:30
Where Artefakt-cafe Cellar Dajwór 3 31-506 Kraków
Programme:
19:00-19:45 Informal Networking ice-breakers
20:00-21:30 TED talks and discussion in English/Polish subtitles
21:30 Calls to action/Summary
21:30 AFTERPARTY til whenever
Price: Free
Door Policy: Positive Mental Attitude

More information about the groups from the From the “about us” on Couchsurfing and on Facecbook

It is important to understand that this is not a TEDx event or a TED licensed event.. Anyone can show TED and TEDx talks under their Creative Commons license. I’ve checked with TED and provided it is non-commercial, not promoting a commercial agenda, and it is clear that this is not a TED or TEDx they are happy.

TED and TEDx are non profit, and have careful and strict rules about their brand and logo, which I support and respect. I don’t want this group to be taken over by corproate interests or do anything that TED and TEDx-ers would disapprove of “en mass”. If in the future TED start asking or requesting changes this will happen.

TED has a community section here

http://www.ted.com/profiles

and a conversations section here

http://www.ted.com/pages/569

an official Facebook page here

https://www.facebook.com/TED/info