Hi there just few updates on the Tunisian upcoming meeting -which looks great, thanks to everybody who`s participating and helping- we need the help of the Arab community for the arabic website. As you know, the website was designed and managed by Basel (CC Syria) but the situation in the country makes the work very difficult at the moment So I`m kindly asking the community if there is anybody with web skills who would be able to volunteer in the next upcoming days just to fix the website and to update all the information we have about the Tunis meeting so everybody can see them. I dont think this will take a long time but it`s something very much appreciated cause we need to post all the stuff asap Pls let me know in pvt, hope somebody would like to help thanks so much and thanks Bassel again for having designed and implemented the site best dona
On Jun 6, 6:00 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > hope this email finds you well > I have some updates concerning the 3rd “Arab world Creative Commons > regional meeting” that, as I announced to this list on 9th March, > should have been held in Erbil, Iraq. For a number of reasons, we had > to cancel that meeting, and that`s why you have not been hearing from > us on agenda and program. But, since lots of people from our Arab > community had, at that time, submitted workshop proposals to join the > meeting, I thought it would have been a pity to waste all this work. > Now I can finally announce that we are re-scheduling the meeting in > Tunis from 30rd of June till 2nd of July. This has been possible > thanks to Nawaat, who kindly agreed to take care of all the logistics > and the organization in Tunis, and to Al Jazeera, who is sponsoring > the event. > The event formula is exactly the same that was discussed in the 9th > March email: participation to the meeting is open, upon presentation > of a workshop proposal, to all the Arab world members. The idea is to > participate not in a passive way, but by giving back to the others in > the community and particularly to the Tunisian community who has been > less hooked up to the regional one. The only participants who wont be > giving workshops are those whose countries dont have a huge CC > community yet and where have been difficult to travel for visa or > political issues (i.e. Palestine, Iraq) and the official affiliates > who are already doing legal and outreach work. Yet, I have to say that > the majority of countries where CC communities are well established > have, since the very first call on 9th March, responded > enthusiastically to the meeting idea and have sent really cool > workshop proposals. > So far, just to recap, we have workshop proposals coming from mixed > teams in the following countries and disciplines: > Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE, Qatar > open education, law, visual arts, entrepreneurship, music, citizen > journalism, social media. > For those who are interested, I can send the agenda and also I hope we > will be soon able to post on CC Arabic website (any volunteer to help > with the regional site?unfortunately, due to the contingency in the > Region the website is not updated but if anybody would like to help > that would be great). > We have budget for a total of 30 participants, and still some free > places to give up since some people, who originally proposed workshops > for Erbil, cant make it to Tunis. > I strongly invite people who are interested to lead a workshop in an > area that is not covered yet to contact me asap. Also, people coming > from countries where CC communities are not rooted yet, pls do contact > me if you are interested in joining. Since the meeting is very soon I > invite you to express your interest immediately and to propose > workshops not after next Friday 11 June (please follow the model that > everybody else followed as per my email of 22nd March to this list). > Also, since we are going to host a final concert the last day, > inshallah, we are particularly interested in reaching out to musicians > from different genres and countries who are interested in open music > and remixing (either that have already released their music under CC > or willing to). We hope to make soon something out of this > performance, inshallah > Sorry for the late notice but pls note that participants who have > already submitted proposals for Erbil had to be counted and confirmed > before re-opening the call. > Hope now more people can join inshallah > Please let me know asap and do send proposals before 11 June > salamaat > 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.
