[hackerspaces] Mitch & Bilal in Cairo

[Matt Joyce]

Good luck to you and Bilial.  Stay safe, and spread the spirit of hacking.

-Matt

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm in Cairo. It's quite an exciting time to be here!
>
> Hopes are very high here after their "Freedom Revolution", even with the
> military still in power.
>
> I mainly came here to be part of Maker Faire Africa (which was this past
> weekend), and was funded by a Kickstarter campaign to make it all happen.
> Together with the brand new Cairo Hackerspace, we set up a 3-Day hackerspace
> at the Faire, which was way wondeful!
>
> In case anyone is interested in more info, I created 2 blog posts today on
> the Noisebridge blog:
>
> One was about my take on the night of violence here in Cairo tonight:
> http://blog.noisebridge.net/2011/10/09/violence-in-cairo-9-october-2011/
>
> The other is about Maker Faire Africa, the new Cairo Hackerspace, and the
> Hackerspace Meetups me and Bilal are helping to organize:
> http://blog.noisebridge.net/2011/10/09/trip-to-cairo-egypt/
>
> Cheers,
> Mitch.
>
>
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