My Last week.. on blogs
The last week had been a very special and busy week for me. Lots of things happened, and I don’t know where to start. In fact I do :) Well to list the events quickly: I met Mohamed Sameer for the first time while I knew him through Arabeyes for more than 3 years, there was an Open Source Seminar in Amman, and I got to be in the discussion panel for it thanks to Ahmed Humeid, I met Ethan Zuckerman again in the Seminar, Tawjihi results for my sis, and she did fine, and last but not least, we had a Global Voices/Jordan Planet gathering last night.
Now what’s really cool, is that those events are very much covered in blog posts by others all over the place. So to know what kind of week I had, all you have to do is to read blog posts for OTHERS.
Mohammed Sameer was in Amman to be part of the Open Source Seminar organized by Intaj. I met him and it was really nice. Day 1 and Day 2 of the OSS Seminar was below expectations, but yet it was great to meet some new interesting people, and meet others again.
Wednesday was the Tawjihi night, stress, cheers and celebration, fireworks and more fireworks.. it was one great night.
As for yesterday, Jordan Bloggers had a meetup with Global Voices through Ethan. It was great meeting some of the bloggers for the first time, namingly Haitham and the ONE (Iyas). Many pictures were taken for the event, check them out at Jad’s, Ahmed’s, and Roba’s.
Now I managed to tell about my last week through post blogs from others.. is this scary ? or isn’t it ?
Mabrouk for your sis :)
And hey, great to know you met Mohd Sameer and Ethan,Haitham, Iyas and all :)
I wish MMM & I were there too, saw the pics and loved them.
Looks like you guys had so much fun… it is great to meet all these people… next time inshallah i will be there.
haha that’s awesome.
Issam, you and other pioneering Open Source advocates in the Arab World deserve a platform to talk about the ‘open future’ of operating systems.. keep it up.