[sudoroom] help Bilal build hackerspaces in Iraq, 2 days left

[Mitch Altman]

Now very close to goal -- and 13 hours left!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops?ref=live

Thanks,
Mitch. 

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> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:50:56 -0700 
> From: marina.kukso at gmail.com 
> To: rachel at xtreme.com 
> CC: sudoroom at lists.hackerspaces.org 
> Subject: Re: [sudoroom] help Bilal build hackerspaces in Iraq, 2 days left 
> 
> hi everyone, 
> 
> less than a whole day left on this one. looks like a really worthwhile 
> endeavor. 
> 
> - Marina 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Rachel McConnell 
> <rachel at xtreme.com<mailto:rachel at xtreme.com>> wrote: 
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops 
> 
> I have this friend, Bilal Ghalib, whom you may have heard of in various 
> contexts. He's a super sweet guy, a maker of things, a lover of 
> people, a builder of community. What he is doing with his life is 
> encouraging the growth of Maker Culture worldwide, and particularly in 
> the Middle East. He explains it much better than I can in this 
> article[0]. 
> 
> Last year he and Mitch Altman went to Cairo to help run a temporary, 
> 3-day hackerspace there. Three days. At that time, there was one 
> hackerspace, just starting up, in Egypt. As I write this, less than a 
> year later, there are FIVE hacker and maker spaces in Egypt. They have 
> Facebook pages, check them out[1]! 
> 
> He is currently about to travel to Iraq and do this again[2]. And he 
> needs money, for travel, for soldering irons and fabric and 3D printing 
> supplies and lasers and other tools and materials, for shipping donated 
> computers, for bandwidth and hosting and publishing and printing. As 
> you can imagine, there is not much income to be had in this work, so he 
> is funded almost 100% through donations. He's halfway to his goal for 
> this trip, but there are only two days left in the kickstarter. 
> 
> I am personally convinced that if we had 100 Bilals out there, teaching 
> and encouraging and connecting, there'd be a solid peace in the region 
> within five years. Can you pitch in a few bucks to support making, 
> hacking, art, and creativity in the Middle East? 
> 
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops 
> 
> Forward widely! 
> 
> Rachel McConnell 
> 
> [0] 
> http://www.instructables.com/community/The-Middle-East-and-the-Global-Hackerspace-Movemen/ 
> 
> [1] 
> Cairo Hackerspace: http://www.facebook.com/CairoHackerSpace 
> El Minya Hackerspace: 
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/El-Minya-Hacker-Space/110235235753993 
> Alexandria Hackerspace: http://www.facebook.com/groups/348988958470932 
> Mansoura Hackerspace: http://www.facebook.com/groups/213558152073212 
> Egypt Fablab: http://www.facebook.com/fablab.egypt 
> 
> [2] 
> Here's what Boingboing says about this project: 
> 
> http://boingboing.net/2012/09/07/kickstarting-a-hackerspace-in.html 
> 
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