Hello guys,

Incase time and resources allow,There is a contact at Egerton University, ( Alex, remember the guys who organized the Mozilla talk?).I had a chat with their Computer Students club chairman and he was willing we give them a talk regarding Wikimedia.

Infact he told me the talk can be conducted at the town campus in Nakuru town. If that's ok please let me know so that I can furnish him with the relevant material (letters,posters e.t.c.) and more information.

Cheers
Stephen W. Wanjau

On Jul 22, 2011 6:02 PM, "Alex Wafula" <xelawafs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Abbas,
>
> I've already got intouch with someone from UoN and I'm waiting for an official confirmation from them.
>
> I've also forwarded the letter from Wikimedia to help things move on faster.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex.
>
> On Fri Jul 22nd, 2011 7:36 AM PDT Abbas Mahmood wrote:
>
>>
>>Thanks Oscar for notifying us.
>>Does anyone have contacts at USIU? We could approach them as well.
>>Also, Alex, have you contacted UoN? I have a contact there that might be able to contact UoN's Dean.
>>BTW, I have an official introduction letter from Wikimedia, so in case any one of you needs it to approach various institutions, please do contact me and i will forward the letter to you beforehand.
>>Abbas.
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:47:26 +0300
>>> From: oslimoke@gmail.com
>>> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Visiting Kenya after Wikimania 2011
>>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>> I have just requested the Director of e-learning JKUAT to allow us a
>>> visit when Asaf is around.However we are starting our exams around 5th
>>> August and it may be tricky to have audience with students.
>>> I would be finishing my exams on 15th and so I hope to join all of you
>>> guys thereafter.So if you see me quite,I am buried in my books"-)
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> On 7/19/11, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Asaf,
>>> >> The iHub sounds great, and a post-1800 time for public speaking is not a
>>> >> problem for me! Can WMKE set it up? If there's a fee to use the iHub,
>>> >> the
>>> >> Foundation will pay it.
>>> > The problem is not with the you,most WMKE may not do a post-1800
>>> > meeting.The travel logistics in Nairobi may not allow most of us to
>>> > attend the meeting.I suggest we do a daytime meeting at some other
>>> > venue?The August memorial Park in the City Center?However they charge
>>> > a small fee.The iHub facility is free of charge for scheduled meetings
>>> > subject to availability and booking.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> This sounds good to me. I have already contacted the Google Nairobi
>>> >> office,
>>> >> and they would be happy for me to visit. I'd like some of you to join
>>> >> me.
>>> >> I know some of you have already had contact with the Google Nairobi
>>> >> office,
>>> >> so perhaps we can use this opportunity to introduce some other WMKE
>>> >> members
>>> >> to the Google team? I think 3 or 4 WMKE members would be great to join
>>> >> me
>>> >> in that meeting. Securing Google as a sponsor for WTN would definitely
>>> >> be
>>> >> one goal of that meeting. What else do you think we could ask from
>>> >> Google?
>>> >> They wanted "numbers and figures", not your NGO registration papers;
>>> >> this
>>> >> means that if we can come up with concrete plans (with a budget, a
>>> >> realistic
>>> >> timeline, and a list of people committed to doing the work), we can move
>>> >> forward with securing support from Google (as well as the Foundation).
>>> >
>>> > Great.I contacted them and am still awaiting their response.Glad you
>>> > caught their attention.I would be happy to join you.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> We also visited KU (www.ku.ac.ke) with Ting and we had a greta and
>>> >>> fruitful discussions with the Top Management of the Universities about
>>> >>> future areas of collaboration in advancing our aims.We were supposed
>>> >>> to get back to them and deliver an Outreach sort of talk to there
>>> >>> students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects
>>> >
>>> >> Excellent! Perhaps we can deliver a double talk as I proposed elsewhere
>>> >> --
>>> >> a general "introduction to Wikipedia" delivered by a WMKE member, and a
>>> >> talk
>>> >> on Wikimedia as a global movement (or on the Foundation and its strategy
>>> >> and
>>> >> plans?) by me. Is one of you willing to make this happen?
>>> > Our Contact at KU(Dr.Martin Njoroge) earlier on told me that our vsist
>>> > may not be possible as they KU Students will be away then.He wished it
>>> > were in September.I saw your request to the Director of e-learning in
>>> > a different thread and I hope we will be able to have a chat with him.
>>> > I would be finding the contacts of the Director of e-learning of JKUAT
>>> > and I hope you would not mind sedning a similar email to him.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Limoke O.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Limoke Oscar,
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>>> Freelancer,
>>> GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
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