IMEWE meet up

mir · 2011-01-11T01:00:35+00:00

As many of you are already aware - the IMEWE cable is already installed and was due to launch on Dec 13 - but due to conflicts between Minister and Ogero, th...

mir

Monkey D. Luffy : there will be a second meeting

proner and zusy - you are willing to make the sacrifice of smoking outside, aren't you ?

2 more ppl were added to attending list, abir and liliane - those are 2 very geeky lady friends i shared the link with them cuz i believe they can be of great help :)

monkey-d-luffy

mir wroteMonkey D. Luffy : there will be a second meeting

Definitely if I can I will come :D
Sorry in advance :(

vengeance666

mir wroteso far the winning day is sunday 16th at 7 pm with 15 ppl at least will be able to meet and 4 missing out (J4D, arithma,saeidw, Flakk)

a second meeting will be put so the 4 and whoever is interested meet.

As for the location, i am not aware of where most of you guys live, i suggest ABC ashrafiyeh, watermelon in the non-smoking cube.
If you are ok with it, i can reserve.

If you have other suggestions, plz put it here and we agree on this

Thanks a lot for everyone who is dedicating time for this :)

damned i would really love to come !! and i would love to take the sacrifice to smoke outside :P but no car and i live near zahle :S i can't make it at that time :S so wish all the good luck for you guys !!

mir

but no car and i live near zahle

In the meeting, I will bring up the topic of being inclusive of the people who can't make it to meetings, have few time and such ... we will probably decide on creating some online platform or maybe have some irc channel with always people on it.

so 100% you will be involved online if you want to. We are geeks after all and we need to have online way of meeting/deciding specially as the number of ppl grows larger.

will leave it to the bunch to decide and see what we can do :)

Bassem

mir Interesting idea; will you update us with the results of the first meeting?

XhacK

mir wrote
but no car and i live near zahle
In the meeting, I will bring up the topic of being inclusive of the people who can't make it to meetings, have few time and such ... we will probably decide on creating some online platform or maybe have some irc channel with always people on it.

so 100% you will be involved online if you want to. We are geeks after all and we need to have online way of meeting/deciding specially as the number of ppl grows larger.

will leave it to the bunch to decide and see what we can do :)

Can't they just join us on a video call?
Ah wait! no they can't this is why we are having this meeting! :P

saeidw

Actually, I just realized that Sunday the 16th was an option so I modified my RSVP. :)

kareem_nasser

@mir: After what happened, is there going to be any change?

jsaade

kareem_nasser wrote@mir: After what happened, is there going to be any change?

Not having a gover. is something we got used to. The decision is not in the hand of the minister no matter who he is, it is in the hands of the people and this is what we are set to proof :) So I do not think anything has changed.

arithma

I believe a real life meeting defeats the purpose of having an online forum to begin with. We should be successful enough to organize it all, specify what our action plan is, and then commence it (be it decided there should be media transmitted protest or not) all using this board.
Let's have a brainstorm here, sanitize our ideas, each shake their contacts and close circles, check what is the scope of our "retaliation" (just internet quality or should it entail electricity, fuel, so on...)
I totally hate the fact that I'd have to pay up close to $30 in transportation to what I could do for free. I hope we can get to the bottom of this particular idea logically and fast so that we can move back to the main issue.

xterm

ZeRaW wrote
kareem_nasser wrote@mir: After what happened, is there going to be any change?
Not having a gover. is something we got used to. The decision is not in the hand of the minister no matter who he is, it is in the hands of the people and this is what we are set to proof :) So I do not think anything has changed.

Any decision that requires financial support will require the approval of the majority of the ministers, at the moment, these ministers are only finalizing affairs, they will not be dealing with anything new. You cannot act at the moment, all you can do is meet up and discuss possibilities.

MegaCool

we're doomed?

J4D

If you think of it correctly, we might actually be heading for change :)

xterm

J4D wroteIf you think of it correctly, we might actually be heading for change :)

Let's not go there Jad.

MegaCool

J4D wroteIf you think of it correctly, we might actually be heading for change :)

change my ass, this country blows.
its a cycle, and we're part of it sadly.

J4D

we will see :)

Joe

@J4D, MegaCool: Of all the topics on the forum, this one you're really not allowed to hijack. No politics. No defeatism. No "change is coming". No, no no!

The only thing that can be discussed in this thread is the meeting, the hours, the location, the content, the attendance, etc ...

lorcan32

Im in if you will have an irc channel.

arithma

Do politicians care if we vote for them later on anymore or they don't at all?
Do we have alternative new faces to look at regarding these issues?
Does public awareness about the real problems pose a real threat to politician idleness or is it really all a sealed theater play. I really have no idea about these things, as I have always kept my distance from the confusion that is politics. I am used to other more concrete and defined problems.
Can we perhaps launch a facebook campaign that's useful? Can we show how politician actions will affect their endurance in power?

I am going to try to attend to the subject that is internet and everything related to its politics through this thread.

Can we abuse some channel for broadcasting this information about what's really in fact happening, who's to blame, who were are and so on? Which would be our best platform to spread out.

Am just thinking out loud what I have to add to this conversation. It might be just structural, naive, or dismal in respect to what you have in mind, but to me that's it so far. Enlighten thy brother.

Please forgive the above sloppy text, I am not in a state to write for communication at the moment.

jsaade

This is exactly what we are going to discuss in the meeting. Online/IRC channels can be a way.
The important thing is that we can all share our ideas. We already have a lot of things set up and figured out. But many other things are still missing, we need to discuss all of those things and where are we heading and how we will get there.

I think IRC will be a total mess, as when you login you cannot see all the ideas above.
An organized + highly moderated forum topic can be initiated, for people who cannot attend the meeting yet have input that is important.

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