Fine with me. Please do inform the rest of the team (assuming that they won't read this mailing list on time). I suggest that we have an internal meet up before meeting the multilingual & Google folks for preparation purposes.

Yours,
Abbas.

> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:15:30 +0300
> From: oslimoke@gmail.com
> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Israel's project in Cameroon and Benin
>
> Hey guys,
> welcome wangai to the community.Thanks Abas and Bence for the 411.my
> suggestion is we meet on sat 25th.
>
> On 9/16/10, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Wonderful report Oscar. So when should we next meet?
> >
> > Bence: thanks for the 411.
> >
> > For those of you who don't know Bence, he is a member of Wikimedia's
> > Chapter's Committee(ChapCom). I met him while I was at Wikimania and we were
> > able to discuss one or two things regarding the Kenyan chapter. So incase
> > any of you have any queries, he may be an insightful source.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Abbas.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: bdamokos@gmail.com
> > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:57:27 +0200
> > To: WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org; WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Israel's project in Cameroon and Benin
> >
> >
> > Hi guys,
> > I hope you are all doing well.
> > I am forwarding you a copy of a press release of Wikimedia Israel about
> > their activities with offline Wikipedia in Cameroon and Benin - I think it
> > is very interesting and if you ever want to do something similar, you will
> > know who to contact for advice.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bence Damokos
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- BEGIN
> > FORWARDED MESSAGE --------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's a rough translation of a press release Wikimedia Israel has issued
> > yesterday, about the "Africa Center" project I had mentioned in an e-mail to
> > this list on June 30th 2010 (see that e-mail for more background on the
> > Africa Center at Ben Gurion University).
> >
> >
> > === START OF PRESS RELEASE ===
> > TITLE: Wikipedia Goes To Africa -- Israeli Students to Leave for
> > Humanitarian Work in Africa, Equipped With Portable Static Wikipedia
> >
> >
> > SUBTITLE: Ben-Gurion University's "Africa Center", Wikimedia Israel, and
> > Hamakor cooperate in making free knowledge accessible in Africa
> >
> >
> > The Africa Center at BGU, headed by Dr. Tamar Golan, annually sends a group
> > of students on a three-month humanitarian expedition to developing countries
> > in Africa. This year's group is going to the Repbulic of Benin and the
> > Republic of Cameroon.
> >
> >
> > Learning about this while approaching the Africa Center for help with
> > developing Africa-related entries on the Hebrew Wikipedia, Wikimedia Israel
> > decided to equip the students with computers running free software and
> > containing an offline (static) version of the French Wikipedia, so that the
> > students can bring free knowledge to Africans without access to the
> > Internet.
> >
> >
> > Wikimedia Israel reached out to Hamakor, the Israeli Free and Open Source
> > Software NGO, and Hamakor helped obtain computer donations, refurbished them
> > and installed the Linux operating system on them.
> >
> >
> > Wikimedia Israel collaborated with members of Wikimedia Switzerland and
> > Wikimedia France to produce an up-to-date static version of the French
> > Wikipedia (numbering about 1 million entries, and including images), French
> > being a major language of reading and writing in Cameroon and Benin.
> >
> >
> > "The students also have portable installations of the offline Wikipedia, so
> > that they may install it on any other computers they may run across in
> > Africa," explained Asaf Bartov, who coordinated the project in Wikimedia
> > Israel, "and they have received training on using Linux and Kiwix, the
> > offline Wikipedia reader (free) software, so they may train others to use
> > the computers".
> >
> >
> > Incidentally, the Linux version installed on those computers is called
> > Ubuntu Linux, 'Ubuntu' being an African word (in the Zulu language) roughly
> > translatable as "unity of mankind" or "mutual reliance".
> >
> >
> > Supporting and promoting the distribution of free knowledge in developing
> > countries is one of the five major goals identified by the Wikimedia
> > Foundation as central to its five-year strategy plan, developed by thousands
> > of members of the Wikimedia Movement.
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