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

[rusty lindgren]

You guys are awesome!

I'm donating some change.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm in!
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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>wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.kickstarter.com/**projects/bilal/baghdad-**
>>> community-hackerspace-**workshops<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<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/<http://www.instructables.com/community/The-Middle-East-and-the-Global-Hackerspace-Movemen/>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> Cairo Hackerspace: http://www.facebook.com/**CairoHackerSpace<http://www.facebook.com/CairoHackerSpace>
>>> El Minya Hackerspace: http://www.facebook.com/pages/**
>>> El-Minya-Hacker-Space/**110235235753993<http://www.facebook.com/pages/El-Minya-Hacker-Space/110235235753993>
>>> Alexandria Hackerspace: http://www.facebook.com/**groups/348988958470932<http://www.facebook.com/groups/348988958470932>
>>> Mansoura Hackerspace: http://www.facebook.com/**groups/213558152073212<http://www.facebook.com/groups/213558152073212>
>>> Egypt Fablab: http://www.facebook.com/**fablab.egypt<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<http://boingboing.net/2012/09/07/kickstarting-a-hackerspace-in.html>
>>>
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