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Dear Donna , Welcome , to My Country Iraq, & it's my pleasure that you will make CC regional meeting in Iraq , thanks you Sure , in Security , Erbil it's better than Baghdad .. also nor just for this Reason , in Erbil you will find many options about when , where , how , you will make this meeting with Internet Connection please let me know , if you need any information from here - baghdad Regards & Welcome to Iraq Hayder (Hamzoz) Fadhel +964-7702533663 @hamzoz Facebook : Hayder Hamzoz Youtube: Hamzoz3010 SKype: hayderhamzoz [email protected] My Personal Blog: www.hamzoz.com Website: www.iraqistreets.com Mail Box : Iraq - Baghdad- Aljadree'a Post Office 2053 --- On Mon, 3/14/11, Habib Haddad <[email protected]> wrote: From: Habib Haddad <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [cc-arab-world] CC regional meeting in Iraq: wanna join? To: "donna d.r." <[email protected]> Cc: "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 9:34 AM I suggest we do this, a - Have a country quota to ensure fair participation from all b - Ask for a short paragraph describing workshop they plan to give or why they should attend c - Short paragraph on previous engagement with CC or Open related events/projects d - A couple of contacts as references e - Pledge to evangelize and help an artist, developer, journalist etc.. in their own community to convert their work to CC Those are my initial quick thoughts, Best, H -- Habib Haddad, Founder YallaStartup, Yamli Twitter: http://twitter.com/habibh LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/hhaddad Blog: http://h4b1b.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/habib.haddad 2011/3/9 donna d.r. <[email protected]>: > 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. -- 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.
