dear all so thanks to everybody who has so far sent me ideas and thoughts about the Iraqi meeting. Above all, thanks so much for the enthusiasm that many of you have shown vis-a-vis the idea of celebrating our regional meeting in Iraq
So now we have to organize this a bit and I need your quick help. As you might imagine, it`s not easy to get to Iraq and we have to work on a number of issues (the most urgent being the visa, but then the logistic of your travels) and put a program together I really like Habib`s suggestion to work on some basic points which I will recap once again here below with my comments in yellow. I would be grateful if each of you individuals/teams interested in joining the meeting would be so kind to send me his/her/their application by next Sunday 27 March cause, as I said, we have really to run to process visa and stuff.As said before, travel, insurance, accommodation will be taken care of and also an honorarium is assigned to those who will actively do the workshops and train other people. Please indicate your nationality and enclose a passport scan to your application. a - Have a country quota to ensure fair participation from all so far, I have counted the following countries where we do have communities or individuals that are very active on CC and open source side: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, UAE, Qatar, Palestine Please, if you think that there are other countries that we should add let me know asap (of course, we are talking about countries where there are, if not communities, at least individuals that are active and interested in CC and "openness") In each of these above mentioned countries we could invite 2 to 3 people in order to have a country quota represented in the regional meeting As I said in my first email, the idea is not simply to have a meeting with representatives from each country, but proper workshops and hands-on sessions (how to apply CC to music, visual arts, education etc) and stuff to do together.. To this respect, it would be great if all the people that are applying to join the meeting can present a workshop proposal in his/her area b - Ask for a short paragraph describing workshop they plan to give or why they should attend we can accept workshops proposals from individuals but also from a team, from the same country or cross-country c - Short paragraph on previous engagement with CC or Open related events/projects d - A couple of contacts as references just if you have worked with other people before, pls list this and send also weblinks of stuff you have done 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 2011/3/14 Habib Haddad <[email protected]> > 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.
