[Noisebridge-discuss] help Bilal build hackerspaces in Iraq, 2 days left

[Jared Dunne]

My fellow Noisebridgers,

What a great project!  There's only two days left and they need a lot more
help to reach their goal.  Let's all crack open our wallets and help fund
this project!  Spread the word within your social & professional networks,
too!

Rachel,

Thanks for posting this!

Jared-

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:57 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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