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

[Angie Little]

Seems like an awesome project! Share'n it on facebook.
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> Now very close to goal -- and 13 hours left!
>
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> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops?ref=live
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch.
>
> ________________________________
> > 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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