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(a)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(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)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(a)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(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.
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Limoke Oscar,
>>
mayenge.blogspot.com >> Freelancer,
>> GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
>>
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