I would like to point the list to a number of cool events CC related that are going to happen during next month in the Region
-1st of April, the great people in Jordan Open Source Association have organised the first Open Source Camp meeting..apparently it's already run out of places, but maybe the folks at JOSA could update us about how the event goes and keep us in the loop for future ones? http://jordanopensource.org/camp -3 of April, the Egyptian GNU Linux group has planned "Istall fest" at the Sawy Culture Wheel in Cairo, I think they are still looking for volunteers and I hope they will talk about CC too!it seems a really cool event http://eglug.org/node/3796 -16 of April, the hyper-active Lebanese community headed by Maya, Naeema, Habib, Mohamed, and many many others have succeeded in putting together what it seems to be the hottest CC Salon ever! and in beautiful Beirut There is a wiki page just opened http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Beirut_Salon then a Twitter account http://twitter.com/CCBeirut and of course a Facebook page that I dont have (!) yet, but we'll make sure we open another thread in this list under the name of CC Salon Beirut, so we make sure to collect your suggestions, comments, etc Of course the program is made out in a collective way, and feedback and proposals are much more welcomed, so pls let us know if you wanna join, present your CC work, or if you have Lebanese artists in your mind that we should invite etc we are looking forward to hearing your comments! -17 of April, Amman will host its first GeekFest http://twitter.com/GeekFestAmman http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111575532186878 we hope to hear soon from @gyonis about the "un-program" of the "unconference":) and pls, ghassan, also if you need any help, let us know! I know there are already many ppl there helping you in organising this cool event, but keep us in the loop - 18 of April, Istanbul (well, it's not Arab world but a very close neighboor) will also celebrate its first CC Salon http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Istanbul_Salon lots of CC people will be there because of the upcoming Communia Workshop http://communia-project.eu/ws08 and we hope to be able to send a video message to them from Beirut - 19 of April, Istanbul will host, in the framework of the Communia workshop, a panel dedicated to "Open Educational Resources as a Bridge for Collaboration to the Middle East " which will host as guests Ali Shaat from Arab Digital Expression Foundation (Cairo) and Anna Batchelder from Bon Education (Dubai) - 20-21 of April, last but not least, Al Jazeera, in the framework of its Documentary Film Festival http://www1.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7604946-1783-4ECE-A6FC-500E01AD828B.htm will host a brand new CC workshop for filmakers in english and arabic with lots of cool film examples under CC The programme schedule is still in draft but as soon as we have it I'll make sure to post here Well, it looks like a busy April and May will be too inshallah I'll stop here now and I invite all of you -who wants to have more info on those events,or help to make them happen or be inspired by them to organise others in other places and time- to send feedback to this list shukran wa mabrouk to all the great energetic people that are making all this stuff happen in such a short period of time in such beautiful places! salam dona -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar.
