2. [email_address]

3. http://www.linuxawy.org

5. Free Culture.

6. DRM

7. The Arabic region.

8. To know more.

10. Cause we have somethings more important to do than reinvent the wheel.

11. To keep software as a science, not alchemy or witchcraft.

20. You will INTERACT with a skilled community.

21. If you are good enough, you name will be recognized.

23. Monopoly of knowledge will be less.

24. Someone else (and you) won't have to reinvent the wheel.

26. Freedom 1 : to STUDY how the program works, and adopt it to your needs.

27. Freedom 2: to REDISTRIBUTE copies so you can help your neighbor.

28. Freedom 3: to IMPROVE the program, and RELEASE your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

30. Web Design: OSWD.org, OpenDesigns.org, OpenWebDesign.org

31. Learning: wikiversity.org, OpenEd, ChemCollective.org

32. Hardware: OpenCores.org, OpenSPARC.net, OpenMoko.org

33. Scintific Data: OpenData

34. And others.

36. Everyone gets access, and if we can collaborate to make things better.

37. www.freedomdefined.org

38. 4 Freedoms

39. Things didn't go easy on the creative stuff, so a new license was introduced, called creative commons.

41. Made for creative work, like literature, arts, .. etc. But it's now wildly spread.

42. There's a big potential that wikipedia go under CC license soon.

43. Human Readable, Lawyer readable, and machine readable.

44. arabcommons.com

46. Affects Music, Movies, eBooks, Computers, Mobile Phones, Games.

47. Companies say that DRM protects the user, while It actually doesn't.

48. Defected by design campaign www.defectedbydesign.org

49. Example 1: MacBook's external display.

50. Example 2: Amazon's kindle: 1984 and animal farm.

52. Almost everyone writes “All Rights Reserved” without knowing these rights, and why does he reserve them.

53. We need to think more open. Try to keep licenses as open as possible, if we need 1 or 2 things then we go for CC.

54. Try to respect who claim his rights. Piracy is not good, but pushing them to open their resources is much better.

55. Understand that patents doesn't historically exist in our countries. When Arabs had the power the knowledge was always available for us, so lets try to stick to that as much as we can.