Thank you all, The next months will be very important for Creative Commons in the Arab World, the first Arabic (Jordanian) licenses have been legally translated and they are now in open discussion. We are currently translating the human readable deed to Arabic, we wish that all these steps will be accompanied with several events and sessions which aim to raise Jordanian and Arabic community awareness about free culture and open content, as well as Creative Commons itself. The final target is to have Creative Commons Jordan officially launched by the end of this year.
Of course, we all believe in community-based work and voluntarism to achieve this. I am sure there are a lot of persons who have good knowledge and experience in open content licenses / free culture and actually I got a relevant number of emails from people who want to help in that, with no monetary rewards and with the exclusive benefit to help others. I thank them for showing their interest and we will start coordination ASAP, if you want to join just tell me. (Btw there is already a Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76228837413) @Abdullah Thank you for your good pieces of advice. Al hamdu lillah, I am not sad nor disgusted, the only reason why my request was short and I explicitly asked to answer by email was my intention to not clog up the JOLUG group -which remains a Linux mailing list- with this thread, which can be considered somehow related to open source but for sure not directly connected to Linux. -Issa 2009/6/24 ArabCrunch.com <[email protected]> > > ya ikhwan I posted my full contact info by mistake. so i deleted the > msg and posting it back again > "I believe this guy works with CreativeCommons. I am interested to > know > email me at arabcrunch at gmail dot com" > > http://arabcrunch.com > Blog Feed: > http://arabcrunch.feedoor.com > Blog Twitter: > http://twitter.com/arabcrunch > Personal Twitter: > http://twitter.com/3gfalcon > > On Jun 24, 2:58 pm, Abdallah <[email protected]> wrote: > > No need to feel sad nor disgusted. > > > > Specially when you are not the first and definitely not the only one. > > > > :D > > > > Anyway, the request was short and vague. > > > > Motivating people to do something requires a lot of tact. Volunteer work > is > > even harder. > > > > Basically, the request had to implicitly answer the question "what is in > it > > for me?" > > > > The rewards are not exclusively monetary. The rewards come in all shapes > > and forms. > > > > The more evident the benefit the less selling is needed, the more > response > > it generates. > > > > Putting a well thought out request is the mark of a great communicator. > > > > Being a great communicator is no guarantee of success. The audience > caliber > > is equally important. > > > > Unfortunately, we have lots of dreamers and a shortage of doers. > > > > Of course I do not blame Linux for our shortcomings. We brought all our > > faults with us when we joined. :P > > > > I am still a believer that we will overcome our own selves one day. > > Insha'Allah. Because no one else is in our way to greatness. > > > > Wassalam Alaikum wr wb > > > > Abdallah > > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Pythonic Daydreamz < > > > > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I feel really sad (and probably even disgusted), > > > that I'm the first (and probably even the only) person to > > > even care to take a look at your message.. -_- > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
