Ok, I have the two letters that you forwarded, unless there are others.
I will go ahead to contact the guy at Egerton.
As for USIU and Daystar, I do not have any contacts that we could use but if somebody is available, paying these campuses a pre-visit to have meeting permits and appointments from the respective dean of students sounds better.
It's to our advantage that the two campuses ,USIU and Daystar are all located within NBO.
Cheers
Stephen W. Wanjau
On Jul 22, 2011 6:51 PM, "Abbas Mahmood" <abbasjnr@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen,
> I think you should go ahead and contact Egerton. Since most Universities will either be closed or doing exams, we don't have a choice but follow up on the few that are willing to host us. Do you need the letter, or do you have it already? And do you have any USIU contacts? Or Daystar?
> ThanksAbbas.
>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:43:48 +0300
> From: wanjaustev@gmail.com
> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Visiting Kenya after Wikimania 2011
>
> 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,
>>>> mayenge.blogspot.com
>
>>>> Freelancer,
>>>> GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
>>>>
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