Hackerspace Bandung Moved into New Location

Hackerspace Bandung (HackerspaceBDG) is officially moved their location. Previously DailySocial readers know HackerspaceBDG location’s is at Taman Sari 3, now the new location is at Jalan Rereng Wulung 33, Sukaluyu, Bandung – Jawa Barat, Indonesia.

Moving notice has also been announced on their official blog. The colleagues there also had to move their goods to a new place.

Although all items including chairs and tables had been moved, but co-working space with the code name HackerspaceBDG v.2 (HSbdg v.2) is still in the final stages of renovation so the office activities as well as public space can’t be used for the moment. By early February it’s expected to be active and accessible again by people who want to hire both dedicated space and the general public.

HackerspaceBDG is basically a co-working space (non profit), currently filled by several freelancers, creative workers as well as those who have their own web studio, developer, author and startup founder. This is a workspace run by community-based as open space thus for the general public or anyone who wants to come, work, discuss,exchange ideas and join community can also come. People can come to work or just to greet each other with creative workers and it’s not being restricted to digital technology, but also to other subject/field.

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Garage Technology Ventures’ Bill Reichert Visited Bandung Digital Valley

Last Tuesday, Bill Reichert, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures visited Bandung. He went to the office Agate Studio and Bandung Digital Valley and I had the opportunity to attend a light discussion with him at BDV. Bill came into Indonesia as part of the entrepreneurial programs run by Bank Mandiri.

Garage Technology Ventures (Garage) is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in Palo Alto. Two other managing directors at Garage are Guy Kawasaki, who is also the founder, and Joyce Chung.

This light and casual discussion yesterday was attended by digital entrepreneurs, startup founders, a community like Mikti and FOWAB. There are some interesting things discussed at the meeting and it could become an idea and information for startup technology activist.

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Hackerspace Bandung Pindah Lokasi

Hackerspace Bandung (HackerspaceBDG) resmi pindah lokasi, jika para pembaca DailySocial mengenal HackerspaceBDG dengan alamat di Taman Sari No 3 maka kini lokasi baru adalah di Jalan Rereng Wulung 33, Sukaluyu, Bandung.

Pemberitahuan perpindahan ini juga sudah diumumkan di blog resmi mereka, rekan-rekan yang berkantor di sana juga telah memindahkan barang-barang mereka ke tempat yang baru.

Meski semua barang termasuk kursi dan meja telah dipindahkan, namun co-working space dengan code name HackerspaceBDG v.2 (HSbdg v.2) masih dalam tahap renovasi akhir sehingga kegiatan ‘perkantoran’ serta ruang publik belum bisa digunakan. Ada kemungkinan awal Februari sudah aktif dan bisa diakses baik untuk mereka yang menyewa dedicated space maupun kalangan umum.

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Bill Reichert dari Garage Technology Ventures Kunjungi Bandung Digital Valley

Hari Selasa kemarin, Bill Reichert, Managing Director Garage Technology Ventures berkunjung ke Bandung, beliau mampir ke kantor Agate Studio dan Bandung Digital Valley.

Saya berkesempatan untuk hadir di diskusi ringan dengan beliau di Bandung Digital Valley (BDV). Bill hadir ke Indonesia dalam rangka program acara wirausaha yang diadakan oleh bank Mandiri.

Garage Technology Ventures (Garage) adalah seed-stage dan early-stage venture capital fund yang bermarkas di Palo Alto. Salah satu tokoh yang cukup dikenal dan juga menjadi satu dari tiga managing director di Garage selain Bill dan Joyce Chung adalah Guy Kawasaki.

Pertemuan ringan dan diskusi sederhana kemarin dihadiri oleh para wirausahawan digital, founder startup serta komunitas seperti FOWAB dan Mikti. Ada beberapa hal menarik yang dibahas di pertemuan tersebut dan bisa menjadi ide dan informasi untuk pegiat startup teknologi.

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Bandung Digital Valley is Officially Launched [+ Video]

On Monday December 20th 2011, Telkom Bandung Indonesia has officially launched Bandung Digital Valley (BDV) which is located in the R & D Centre of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) at Jl. Gegerkalong Hilir 47, Bandung 40152.

From the release that I’ve received the official explanation of the BDV concept is a bridge between the technopreneur or application developer with a market or industry which has a role as an absorber or a user application. BANDUNG VALLEY DIGITAL will position themselvesas a central resource (resource pool) for the open nodes or hubs which can be a part or get permissions to a variety of applications that are ready to be developed.

BDV physical form is an approximately 1200m2 area for the 100 developers or technopreneur, private, companies or institutions that wish to utilize various free facilities. Users should do the registration process as well as giving proposals that later on would be selected . As per information from Telkom, they has provided IDR 50 billion fund as initial funding for the next three years in addition to the existing facilities in order to support the BDV.

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From Silicon Valley to Bandung

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Arip Tirta. Arip founded and became director at UrbanIndo.com. Before returning to Indonesia, Arip was Director of Investment Analysis and Strategy for Hercules Technology Growth Capital. In this post, Arip tells us about his experience working in Palo Alto, his decision to return to Indonesia and the reason why he chose Bandung to pursue his own dream.

My name is Arip Tirta. I recently returned to Indonesia after spending 15 years in the USA. I received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics of Computation from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Master of Science in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University.

Prior to my arrival in Indonesia, I was the Director of Investment Analysis and Strategy for Hercules Technology Growth Capital (Nasdaq: HTGC), which is a specialty finance company that provides both debt and equity to technology start-ups predominantly in the US. Hercules was co-founded by Manuel Herinquez who has over 25 years of experience in venture capital and venture lending. Prior to co-founding Hercules, he was one of the Managing Directors at VantagePoint Venture Partners.

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Bandung Digital Valley Resmi Diluncurkan [+video]

Hari Senin tanggal 20 Desember 2011, Telkom Indonesia secara resmi meluncurkan Bandung Digital Valley (BDV), yang terletak di R&D Center PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, yang beralamat di Jl. Gegerkalong Hilir 47 Bandung 40152.

Dari rilis yang saya terima, penjelasan resmi konsep dari BDV adalah, jembatan antara para teknopreneur atau pengembang aplikasi dengan pasar atau industri sebagai penyerap atau pengguna aplikasi tersebut. BANDUNG DIGITAL VALLEY akan memposisikan diri sebagai sebuah pusat sumber daya (resource pool) bagi simpul-simpul atau hub yang secara terbuka bisa menjadi bagian atau mendapatkan hak akses berbagai aplikasi yang siap dikembangkan.

Bentuk fisik BDV adalah ruangan seluas sekitar 1200m2 yang diperuntukkan bagi para 100 orang developer atau teknopreneur baik pribadi, perusahaan atau institusi yang ingin memanfaatkan berbagai fasilitas yang ada secara gratis, dengan proses registrasi serta pengajuan proposal yang nantinya akan diseleksi. Telkom juga mengatakan bahwa menyediakan dana sebesar 50 miliar sebagai dana awal selama tiga tahun ke depan selain fasilitas yang sudah ada untuk mendukung BDV.

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Segera Hadir, FOWAB 7: Geek Meetup – Let’s Celebrate The New Rockstar

Sebagai persiapan acara besar di bulan Maret 2012 nanti, FOWAB akan kembali mengadakan meetup rutin mereka, acara yang ketujuh ini sekaligus menjadi acara pra-event untuk GeekFest yang rencananya diadakan pada bulan Maret 2012.

Untuk acara kali ini, FOWAB 7 bekerja sama dengan Lenovo Do Network, sebuah program dari Lenovo yang mendukung inovasi. FOWAB 7 membawa tema Geek Meetup – Let’s Celebrate The New Rockstar. Seperti yang dituliskan di situs resmi mereka, dari acara ini FOWAB berniat untuk mengajak komunitas berkumpul dan saling berdiskusi, selain itu mereka juga akan memperkenalkan lebih jauh tenteng event GeekFest tahun depan.

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Telkom akan Bangun Pusat Inkubasi di Bandung

Direktur Utama PT Telkom, Rinaldi Firmansyah, mengatakan bahwa Telkom berencana membangun sarana inkubasi untuk memfasilitasi para pembuat program aplikasi. Hal tersebut diungkapkannya saat acara BUMN Award 2011, seperti dikutip dari Vivanews.

Untuk mewujudkan hal ini, Telkom sudah menyiapkan dana Rp 50 Miliar dalam jangka waktu hingga 3-4 tahun mendatang. Bakal ada 60 slot yang tersedia untuk kerjasama ini.

Dalam proses inkubasi ini, Telkom berharap para pembuat program nantinya bisa membuat aplikasi konten, mengetesnya di telepon genggam dan komputer personal, serta mengkaji kemungkinan kerjasama. Ini merupakan salah satu komitmen Telkom untuk memajukan industri kreatif nasional.

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Event Report: Asia’s First WebFWD in Bandung

Bandung was the first place in Asia for WebFWD (Web Forward), an acceleration program by Mozilla. As we reported earlier, WebFWD hosted two meetups held in Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Pikiran Rakyat Bandung building, on Monday, November 14, 20011.

Fauzan Alfi, Regional Leader for Mozilla Community in Bandung told us that ITB students gave a positive response for the event, attended not onlye by ITB students but also from other schools. Participants were enthusiastic following the presentation by Diane Bisgeier, Mozilla WebFWD Program Manager, about WebFWD and other announcement for Mozilla community. The second round of event weren’t as crowded compared to the first one in ITB, but that doesn’s shrink the enthusiasm from attendees.

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