I was to meet the FIT manager (Strathmore university) today regarding space for the
chapter members meeting though he was out for a meeting. Hope everyone's cool with
Strath as a venue for this. I'll confirm this tomorrow morning.
//alex
On Thu Aug 11th, 2011 4:17 AM PDT Abbas Mahmood wrote:
Grace and Oliver,
There will be a meeting with the chapter members -- sorry, I had forgotten to include it
in the schedule. It might probably be on Monday or Tuesday, still unsure because we
haven't gotten a venue, yet: iHub's full in the August. Any other alternative
recommendations will be highly appreciated :)
Abbas.
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:36:33 +0300
From: gkariuki99(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania
hi everyone.Alex and Isaac thanks for being good ambasadors and representing us fully.
I look foward to next week.just a little enqiury.will Asaf hold a meeting with us upon
arriving before we go to the university if nairobi?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Isaac,
See my comments below:
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:51:50 +0300
From: kips8505izo(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania
Thanks so much Asaf you really inspired us.
Members I enjoyed Wikimania 2011 and I must say it was a big experience to me. I want to
thank Jessie Wild for her invaluable support and Guidance, Abbas for being with us every
step of the way, Ting Chen for his advice.
And thanks to David, who offered financial assistance as well :)
3. Meeting with Italian Chapter members-they are interested in supporting Kenyan Chapter.
Great!!
The Kenyan Wikimedia chapter is planning a project to improve the
Swahili Wikipedia in the areas health (especially information about
HIV), law and agriculture. The project is expected to start in September
2011 and will involve universities in Nairobi. Your plan is to
encourage students to translate a number of select high-quality articles
from the English Wikipedia into Swahili.
Ermmm, what translation project are you talking about?
5. Fellowship: in India, we provided one of our US volunteers with a
3-month fellowship so he could coordinate the program activities on the
ground. Currently, PJ Tabit, one of our Ambassadors from George
Washington university is in Pune and helps the local team to get the
India Education Program started. Alex Stinson told me yesterday that he
is interested in coming to Kenya next year to support you.
+1. BTW, in January, I was in talks with the Public Policy Initiative team and they had
proposed for Frank to come to our Wiki10 Anniversary but he couldn't due to clashes in
dates, since he was also invited to Hungary at around the same time.
6. Exchange program: a volunteer from Kenya would come to the US or some
other country and learn more about the existing university program.
Also, professor who used Wikipedia in the classroom in the past would
come to Kenya to talk about his experiences and to encourage Kenyan
teachers to participate (we've done something similar in India: Bob
Cummings, a professor from the US travelled to Pune and talked to local
professors -- this has been very successful in getting teachers in Pune
interested in the program.
+1
Thanks for your efforts! Long live Wikimania.
//abbas.
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