sorry the deadline is Friday the 10th, not the 11th..my bad.. pls note that we have to close this strictly on friday so I cant take anything after Friday the 10th :) salamaat
2011/6/6 [email protected] <[email protected]> > 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. > > -- 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.
