Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:47:26 +0300
From: oslimoke(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)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(a)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.
Freelancer,
GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
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