BTW, Did anyone see this: http://www.kenyalondonnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti… ?? it should be a good start to our paper. cheers On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Limoke Oscar, mayenge.blogspot.com Freelancer, GeoInformatics and GIScience Student

Thanks for the link - although that's quite an old article by now. Otherwise, I'm excited about what you're doing - best of success to your paper preparation! BT _____ From: Limoke Oscar [mailto:oslimoke@gmail.com] Sent: 26 August 2011 10:50 To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter. Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Strathmore ICT Conference BTW, Did anyone see this:http://www.kenyalondonnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.kenyalondonnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article& id=8237:kenya-schools-benefit-from-wikimedia&catid=71:oped&Itemid=75> &view=article&id=8237:kenya-schools-benefit-from-wikimedia&catid=71:oped&Ite mid=75 ?? it should be a good start to our paper. cheers On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Limoke Oscar &lt;oslimoke(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi Guys, I have initiated the Paper here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w8RkzfCJiWVX9pasnnzG14Wx_8letqUuKy5m21K1 VRA/edit?hl=en_US let us collaboratively help build and expand it as fast as we can.please lets write the paper and then the presentations should be easy.feel free to add the sub-topics and themes you wish we cover in the paper.do it soonest as we have very limited time to compile and write the paper. regards, -- Limoke Oscar, mayenge.blogspot.com Freelancer, GeoInformatics and GIScience Student

So I just confirmed that the presentation should take 15 min (minus questions). The audience will comprise of  academics, researchers, information technology students, young professionals and industry (IT) experts. Numbers during our presentation should be around 200 - 250, so this is a pretty good outreach for us. I've requested for it to be on a Saturday and they should get back to me on that. Another thing, regarding the format of our presentation, the university is OK if we come with slides only Here's a link to presentations made during the 2009 Conference: http://www.strathmore.edu/aboutus.php?id=165 ________________________________ yeah ,we had a successful first session ....and to me it looks like we have enough info considering we have like 30 mins of talk time n question tym,lets try to keep the story line ,i mean our six million dollar question should be ....how do we think this noble project of Wikipedia for schools ,going to help us develop the ICT in rural areas ,for now its good we have a skeleton. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Limoke Oscar &lt;oslimoke(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi Guys, _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

Try highlighting all projects even just slightly coz there may be guys intrested in any of them, 30 mins is enough for all that Oscar Okwero SUITSA Team Lead --- On Fri, 8/26/11, BRANTON OBWARI &lt;bruceobwari(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: BRANTON OBWARI &lt;bruceobwari(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Strathmore ICT Conference To: "The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter." &lt;wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 12:55 PM yeah ,we had a successful first session ....and to me it looks like we have enough info considering we have like 30 mins of talk time n question tym,lets try to keep the story line ,i mean our six million dollar question should be ....how do we think this noble project of Wikipedia for schools ,going to help us develop the ICT in rural areas ,for now its good we have a skeleton. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Limoke Oscar &lt;oslimoke(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi Guys,I have initiated the Paper here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w8RkzfCJiWVX9pasnnzG14Wx_8letqUuKy5m21K… let us collaboratively help build and expand it as fast as we can.please lets write the paper and then the presentations should be easy.feel free to add the sub-topics and themes you wish we cover in the paper.do it soonest as we have very limited time to compile and write the paper. regards, _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

Emmanuel, Thank you for coming in. *I would suggest that you highlight on the general steps/process involved in creation of a ZIM file. (For very detailed topics I propose we give links on the slides for those who would like to know more) e.g. For the one we are about to compile for the Kenyan curricula,we were requested to create a list on a meta page of the missing topics with the corresponding link to an existing article on Wikipedia,then from there I think you guys at the openzim project shall compile that then have the downloadable copy availed. * Could you shade more light on what goes on in between having the topics from us and having the downloadable version online? *Also,Kindly avail some information regarding the origin of the openzim project,objectives,some merits and future prospects. *I think six slides for the openZim project shall do us good.(any other suggestions are also welcome) And keep up the good work. Truly, Steve On Aug 26, 2011 11:06 AM, &lt;emmanuel(a)engelhart.org&gt; wrote:

Great! Thx for these informations. I will work on that this evening and make you a proposition. Emmanuel On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:53:03 +0300, stephen wanjau wrote:

Here my slides: Slide1: Steps to go offline * Select articles " Select for each article a revision (optional) * Prepare welcome pages with explanation, indexes, …. (optional) * Build a ZIM file * Get the ZIM file and a ZIM reader Slide2: Select articles and revision * Trivial solution: list articles in a category, a project, ... * Sophisticated solution: WP1.0 * Wikitrust may help to get the right revision Slide3: Build a ZIM file * Two solutions currently * Hacked Mediawiki DumpHTML extension + additional scripts ** Complicated, only people at Kiwix use it ** Big ZIM files (http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/) ** Higher quality * Mediawiki Collection extension ** Easy for everyone, available online on WMF Web sites ** Only small ZIM ** Lower quality Slide4: What is openZIM? * Define a free format (ZIM) * Reference Implementation (zimlib & zim tools) * Highly compressed and really fast access time * Community project created 3 years ago * Independent of any readers (Kiwix, wikionboard) * http://www.openzim.org Slide5: Next? * Improvement of readers * More readers for smartphones/tablets * Simplification/Improvement of the ZIM creation process * Deployment of big ZIM creation tools at the WMF * More ZIM files, also for non-WMF wikis Emmanuel On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:53:03 +0300, stephen wanjau wrote:

Hey Steve, forgot to mention this to you yesterday, we managed to have the talk set for Saturday instead of tomorrw as you guys had suggested. Emmanuel, thanks for the slides! //alex ________________________________ Emanuel, Thank you for the info. we will be presenting this tomorrow. once again, thank you. cheers, Steve On 9/1/11, emmanuel(a)engelhart.org &lt;emmanuel(a)engelhart.org&gt; wrote: -- Mr. Stephen W. Wanjau Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

Steve, the first slide of the presentation has the pic of the XO laptops I was talking about. It's a great visual presentation of what offline  Wikipedia aims to achieve so it should come in handy. Looking forward to see the final presentation you come up with, with Oscar. Thanks for the slides Jessie. //alex ________________________________ Hey all - Also, here is a deck we talked through at WIkimania regarding offline. Hopefully there will be some slides that help! Ping me (or Emmanuel or Manuel) with questions :) Jessie On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Alex Wafula &lt;xelawafs(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: Hey Steve, forgot to mention this to you yesterday, we managed to have the talk set for Saturday instead of tomorrw as you guys had suggested. big ZIM creation tools at the WMF light on what goes on in between having the know? mailing list -- Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation