IDEA 20090923 Open Syria

Bassel and myself want to do some great events in Syria, initially stimulated from Laoban and Laoban Speaker Workshop and brining them to Syria. Bassel and I work on http://openclipart.org together, and share connections through Creative Commons' middle-east envoy, Donatella Della Ratta. This is a brain dump on great events and time to do events together.

Who
Friends, people into open source, music, creativecommons, and generally are newbies or oldies!

What
A set of events to celebrate the commons + arabic and middle-eastern culture being shared with the world

When
Spring time, 2010

Where
Damascus, Syria, and possibly other cities

Why
To share openness, creativity, fun, and middle-eastern cities.

How
By planning with great people, finding sponsorship, and doing the events properly!

Events + Projects

 * Creative Commons Salon
 * Laoban Soundsystem + Laoban Speaker Workshop
 * Open Barcamp Style Conference
 * Art Exhibition?
 * Urban Soccer

People

 * Donatella Della Ratta
 * Bassel Safadi
 * Jon Phillips

Artists

 * Ahmad ali is a photographer and designer with great experience in experimental art
 * George Shahda is a photographer and digital artist

Goals

 * Share with the world Syrian, Arabic and Middle-eastern culture
 * Spread the concepts of free software, free culture, and free art, and free network services
 * Grow the presence of CC, FLOSS and more
 * Get at least 200 people excited about the project in each city show happens

Sponsors
This is penciled in and to be sought, not confirmed nor even asked!


 * Identi.ca
 * Al-Jazeera
 * Discover-Syria
 * MTN Syria
 * Syriatel
 * Embassies?
 * Media Organizations
 * Related Organizations