Articulating ideas

About

Zohar Babin

About humanizing technology through research, community and participation. This is my personal log of ideas, projects, and other bits of bytes -my dumpster of crazy ideas. My background is with programming, web, 3D and video production. I hack software and build communities, enjoy connecting, sharing ideas, martial arts, visual arts, music, extreme sports, beer, travel and many other things.

 

I am passionate about People, Ideas, Stories, Video and Technology. I have been leading community building and development of web technology projects for over a decade. Today I lead Community Building and Developer Relations at Kaltura.

 

I was born into the web, modding was how I started software development and online forums/communities were my [in]formal community education. I love giving back and sharing ideas and enjoy open discussions. You’ll often find me chat about psychology and human nature, technology, collaboration, open source, linked-data (and connecting ideas), art and the future of communication and education.

 

I have delivered speaking engagements and sessions at the following conferences - Orielly OSCON, ACM Multimedia, Open Video Conference, 360Flex, JAndBeyond, and many more.

Speaker, Developer Relations, Community & Business Development, Marketing, Product, Research, Hacking.

Video Artist by heart, Community Builder by day, Developer at night.

@zohar (FTLG)

 

Communities I’ve founded, managed or currently lead -

Html5Video.Org - The HTML5 Video Community

WebiTalks - The Israeli Web Technology Community

Flashoo.co.il - Israel Flash & Web Developers and Designers Community

 

A few words by wiser men -

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
- Albert Einstein

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
- Benjamin Franklin



  • Jason

    Hello,

    We need to create custom server software that will talk with Kaltura server requesting transcoded video to kaltura media server. The company I am consulting for is a very large TV studio with 100's of TV stations that send in live video to be transcoded by a hardware solution that will talk with kaltura video managment.

    Here is a basic diagram of what I am talking about.
    http://booyamedia.com/kaltura.gif

    Are you available for consultant or custom development work?

    Jason Martell
    323-428-4286

  • http://www.zoharbabin.com Zohar Babin

    Hi Jason,

    Sure – send me an email with all details to zohar {dot} babin {at} kaltura {dot} com

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  • Sergey

    Zohar, in few words, is there opportunity to do just the same as, for example, http://chatroulette.com/ and do it without flash right now?

    Sergey

    terehov at gmail.com

  • http://www.zoharbabin.com Zohar Babin

    Not yet as there is no device api functional as part of html/js..

  • K17robinson

    Hello Zohar, are you available for custom development of the All-in-One Video Pack WordPress plugin? Thanks, Kyle (k17robinson .at. gmail)

  • http://www.phoneywood.com/ John

    H Zohar,
     Could you please contact me. I need someone to integrate Kaltura with a forum software. I have specific needs I can share with you. I sent you an email as well.

  • Ali imran waqt

    hi, kalturian! me a pkistani scientist, God willing nobel prize, what about you dr.khan@msn.com