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BarCamp-Lebanon was great yesterday. Met some interesting people. Attended some interesting sessions(except for the 3rd one which was a waste of my time, notice no coverage) and was surprised at the abundance of geeks and geekets attending. And speaking of things that were good, that veggie pizza was great….

We also all agreed that we need more barcamps, more meet ups and more gatherings like this. To facilitate collaboration between entrepreneurs, hackers, and geeks in general. Very exciting indeed…

I feel like a 90 year old today and I’m paying the price of all of yesterday’s excitement. So forgive me my uploading speed….next up, the photos.

I’d like to thank the organizers of BarCamp-Lebanon, especially David and Sami. If you’d like to know more about the barcamp, you can visit the wiki page at BarCamp-Lebanon.

Just 4 people in attendance…oooh, not a lot of people want to meet up, what does that mean?
Would like to organize hacker meet ups for coding challenges, general coding….

Gathering ideas about this issue and getting feedback. Interesting. Presenter saying, “programming sucks”…really? I don’t think so.

Also talking that we should have meet ups for sharing knowledge…completely agree. Building up tech meet ups that are fun.

Somebody pitching something called lebgeeks in this session to get more feedback.
I am all in for it.

Currently attending #barcamp-lebanon. Sitting in a session about IP law and creative commons. The main question is why don’t we promote creative commons as a way for brand recognition in this part of the world. This is specifically true for Arab media networks which are unknown in the western world.

Basically, since the cost of digital distribution is going down, we should use that to promote our brands, our knowledge and even our education.

Discussion moving on towards piracy and why is it widespread in this part of the world. Somebody noted that it is actually a much bigger problem in Asia and is a big problem throughout the world. General consensus is that media distribution that is in place is broken…Having a broken system promotes sharing and some people took it further towards piracy.

Speaker promoting using creative commons for digital content…for non-commercial use. I am not sure about that. I am not against commercial uses, just the way the content is distributed and sold.

Talk about collecting societies, interesting idea…never head about it before. Still not sure. What is being said doesn’t really chime with what i think. Maybe because i write software instead of producing digital media.

I feel like listening to a soft Richard Stallman, “sharing is good”….