thank you very much and for your moral support -that not less important than material- your comment is really useful : )
I will connect with Hindawi for paper copy, but anyway this step will come later. Now I'll connect with IDRC and OSI. I hope to see Egyptian CC license and also for other Arab countries soon : ) thank you very much. regards : ) On 19 نوفمبر, 00:07, Hala Essalmawi <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Ahmed, > > thanks for sharing your experiance with us. you are right that the egyptian > publishers are not familier with the CC L at all. i believe this is the case > of > the rest of the Arab publishers also but why do not you try Hindawi publisher. > they even have an open access links for some books. > > unfortunatly, I cannot help in the funding issue as I myself although work at > the Library Of Alexnadira but yet have no pence for my a2K project (CC is part > of it) and have to work extra time to maintain the websitewww.bibalex.org/a2k. > however, why do not you contact the IDRC regional office in Cairo and the OSI > regional office in Amman. > > the CC L for Egypt soon will be ready and hope we'll have a big launch where > we > can invite some creators and publishers to explain to them what CC L and hope > someone from the Int. publishers association can attend and explain to the > local > publishers that using CC L will not be a threat to their business. > > kind regards, > Hala > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ahmed M. AbouZaid <[email protected]> > To: CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, November 9, 2010 6:04:58 PM > Subject: [cc-arab-world] Publishing Arabic Ubuntu book under CC license > > Hello, don't wanna copy same message but I think it explain the idea > perfectly! > > ------- > > My name is Ahmed M. AbouZaid. I'm from Egypt and I'm interested in > free > technologies and free culture. > > First of all, I would like to thank Creative Commons organization for > their > remarkable effort in spreading free culture and creativity. We are all > better off by the great role that you are holding. > > My story started two years ago when I released Arabic an e-book called > "The > Practical Guide in using Ubuntu Linux" and it was licensed under a > CC-BY-NC-SA license. That book was, and continues to be, the first > complete > Arabic book that explains Ubuntu operating system to new users. The > book > received an excellent adaptation rate and many users gave good > feedbacks. > And although I didn't work well enough on publicizing it, I managed to > count > more than 15,000 downloads. > > Now I am in the process of updating the book in order to release the > second > edition under a CC-BY-SA license. I am planning to make it available > in > print as well as digitally, but I have noticed a major issue in > publishing > it in paper and that was the fact that publishers do not accept free > licenses like Creative Commons' (they don't even accept restrictive > licenses > like CC-BY-NC-SA). This will mean a couple of unfortunate things, the > first > is that no PDF version is going to be available for download and the > second > is that the printed version will come with a giant 'All rights > reserved' in > the first of the book. > > I don't want to be forced into doing either of these. I want to make > my book > free-as-in-freedom so people can share it and base new, creative works > upon > it. > > This is going to be the first book about Ubuntu in Egypt and the Arab > World. > In addition to that, as far I as know, it is going to be the first > commercial book licensed under a Creative Commons license in Egypt and > the > Arab Word. This will hopefully mean that people will recognize the > Creative > Commons organization and will see how Creative Commons can be used in > real > world. > > Recently, a friend of mine told me about the funding that Creative > Commons > provides for free culture projects[1], but unfortunately, I didn't > find out > about it early enough. > > Now, I am wondering about the possibility of getting funds from > Creative > Commons for my project. If that is not possible, how about the > possibility > of kicking a fundraise in cooperation with Creative Commons to collect > funds > from free culture supporters around the world? > > I do not know the exact cost, but I think it will cost $2200-3000 > (that does > not only include printing, but also proofreading, writing and > publishing). > Also, as a little way to give back, %25 of the total revenues of the > book > will be spent on international free software projects. > > Any more ideas? > > thanks : ) > > [1]http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23406 > > -- > Ahmed M. AbouZaid > > My Bloghttp://www.aabouzaid.com/ > > -- > 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 > العنوانhttp://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar. -- 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.
