<font face="arial narrow,sans-serif">I'm in!<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Marina Kukso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marina.kukso@gmail.com" target="_blank">marina.kukso@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>less than a whole day left on this one. looks like a really worthwhile endeavor.</div>
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<br></div><div>- Marina</div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com" target="_blank">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/<u></u>projects/bilal/baghdad-<u></u>community-hackerspace-<u></u>workshops</a><br>
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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].<br>
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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]!<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/<u></u>projects/bilal/baghdad-<u></u>community-hackerspace-<u></u>workshops</a><br>
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Forward widely!<br>
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Rachel McConnell<br>
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[0]<br>
<a href="http://www.instructables.com/community/The-Middle-East-and-the-Global-Hackerspace-Movemen/" target="_blank">http://www.instructables.com/<u></u>community/The-Middle-East-and-<u></u>the-Global-Hackerspace-<u></u>Movemen/</a><br>
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[1]<br>
Cairo Hackerspace: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CairoHackerSpace" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<u></u>CairoHackerSpace</a><br>
El Minya Hackerspace: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/El-Minya-Hacker-Space/110235235753993" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/pages/<u></u>El-Minya-Hacker-Space/<u></u>110235235753993</a><br>
Alexandria Hackerspace: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/348988958470932" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<u></u>groups/348988958470932</a><br>
Mansoura Hackerspace: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/213558152073212" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<u></u>groups/213558152073212</a><br>
Egypt Fablab: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/fablab.egypt" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<u></u>fablab.egypt</a><br>
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Here's what Boingboing says about this project:<br>
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<a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/09/07/kickstarting-a-hackerspace-in.html" target="_blank">http://boingboing.net/2012/09/<u></u>07/kickstarting-a-hackerspace-<u></u>in.html</a><br>
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