That's really awesome! Great job Dona! Sent via BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "donna d.r." <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:58:48 To: CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي<[email protected]> Subject: [cc-arab-world] CC regional meeting in Iraq: wanna join?
Dear all hope this mail finds you all well It`s indeed a very busy period for all that`s happening in many countries in the region..we hope the best for our brothers and sisters in Libya, Egypt, Tunis, Yemen, Bahrain and all the other countries where people are fighting for their rights Indeed, I`m trying to move our work forward particularly cause we have a project in the pipeline that is gonna be very important for the future of our Arab community We have many people in our community in Iraq but, due to many security and political issues, it has been difficult to stay connected. We have now the opportunity to organize our third regional Arab world meeting in Iraq. We have found some generous donors that will help organizing this and making it happen. We`ve been talking about how to make the regional meeting not only an opportunity for different countries to meet up, share ideas and thoughts and discuss about how to move on CC work..but also something more "practical".. We would like to try to build from the mistakes of the past, as many within the community have pointed out the necessity to have more time in regional meetings to actually do things together, in a practical way rather than just holding a plenary discussion We have been also thinking how to make the meeting more open to the community, despite the budget constraints that are always to be there So here`s the proposal: -there is a date, 17th May: Lessig, CC founder, has agreed to be in Iraq that day, give a keynote lecture, and then chair a plenary session with you all from the Arab world community..we can build the agenda for this all together - the CC Regional Meeting would not be only a meeting among the CC Arab communities but a series of workshops led by people from inside the Arab community. Many Iraqis (from lawyers, to musicians, to journalists and bloggers) have asked to learn more about CC through the other Arabs` experiences in applying CC to music, visual arts, films, education,etc - the idea would then be to hold parallel workshops in different disciplines (a couple of days each), each of them open to about 15-20 people from the Iraqi community - it would be great if each of you who is interested in joining these meetings (which will likely be about 4-5 days in total mid-May in Iraq) could send me a workshop proposal, articulated in bullet points (items you would like to talk about during the workshop, community the workshop addresses to, etc). All workshops should be in Arabic and of course you can ask to have supports like screens, computers etc - topics of the workshops could be everything related to CC -applied to different disciplines- and open source. Workshops should be "hands on" in order to teach people stuff, i.e. how to apply CC licenses to music and make a remix, etc - each workshop can have one or more instructors, according to the topic. You are welcome to present team proposals - we have budget to invite around 30 people coming from the Region: most of the participants attending the plenary session of the Regional meeting will be the same people that are leading the workshops. This way it will be much easier to choose the participants without discriminating anybody. Each one who has got a proposal and wants to share his/her skills would be rather also be chosen to participate to the Regional meeting as a representative of his-her community-country - the donors will cover travel, accommodation in a very good hotel, insurance and an honorarium for the workshops instructors - it looks like this is gonna happen in Erbil, mostly for security reasons (moving 30 and more people around in Baghdad would be kind of complicated for our hosts which have to take care of everybody`s security) and also to be more free to hang out by ourselves (something that our hosts cannot grant for Baghdad as we are under their responsibility) - the hosts have kindly agreed that, even if we do this in Erbil, they will make sure people from other cities (Najaf, Baghdad, etc) can attend our workshops (at the hosts` expenses) and stay with us for 4-5 days so to create connections all across Iraq - the selection process of the workshops participants will be followed by all of us in transparency, so each of you who submit a workshop proposal is also welcomed to propose a criteria for the selection (skills that participants should have etc) we can discuss all this in more details but now I`ll stop since this email is too long! pls each of you, from all different arab countries, is very much welcomed to join! looking forward to your feedback 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. -- 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.
