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Thanks Abbas. It is exciting to see the Kenyan community moving toward
chapter formation. <br>
<br>
A few suggestions/thoughts:<br>
- Please do connect with members of ChapCom[1]; they can provide advice
based on their experience working with other countries on chapter
formation which might help you to avoid problems that other groups have
faced in the past<br>
- The South Africa experience was helped by the support of people at
Africa Commons, who are an existing organization and have been able to
provide support; it might be good to connect with a similar
organization in Kenya<br>
- If you need some funds to support the launch process (e.g., to fund
legal work or to organize a workshop), I can provide a grant to help
with these expenses; please follow up with me when you are ready<br>
- If you are going to connect with the Omidyar Network, please keep me
in the loop; I know them well and they are already supporting
Wikimedia; it would be valuable to keep our communications open as
multiple parts of the Wikimedia movement connect with them<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Barry<br>
<br>
[1] See <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_committee">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_committee
</a><br>
<br>
On 08/13/2010 02:44 AM, Oliver Stegen wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks,
Abbas, for the update.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Knowing me,
you will expect me to
especially like points nos. 5 and 6 of the SA WMF chapter draft
purposes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span></font> To
build/facilitate/disseminate/provide knowledge in all SAfrican
languages <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span></font> To
contribute to the
development of local languages (all South African languages)<font
face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Correspondingly,
I’ve been looking
at the Kikuyu wikipedia (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ki.wikipedia.org/">http://ki.wikipedia.org</a>)
which could use some more support just like the Zulu one (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://zu.wikipedia.org/">http://zu.wikipedia.org</a>)
in SA.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Just to add
one more development on our
own chapter network:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">We expect to
meet with Dr. Martin Njoroge
at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Kenyatta</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
sometime between Sep 9 and 17
(date to be confirmed) in order to discuss collaboration and potential
opportunities
for mutual support (Dr. Njoroge is the Director of the Confucius
Institute,
organiser of last month’s international conference on multilingualism
here in Nairobi, and a member of the Multilingual Education Network
East
Africa).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="DE">Wenu
katika kujenga
elimu,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="DE">Oliver
(aka BT)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font
face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org">mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org</a>]
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Abbas
Mahmoud<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 13 August 2010
11:24<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Wikimedia Kenya<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Wikimedia <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kenya</st1:place></st1:country-region>]
Latest
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Hello folks,<br>
<br>
It's been a while since I last communicated with you guys, but I have
some
updates regarding our chapter, the South African Chapter and Wikimedia
in
general.<br>
<br>
WIKIMEDIA <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">KENYA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<br>
I recently received intelligence from Wikimedia Foundation about
Omidyar
Network. Omidyar Network is an NGO that funds Wikimedia and also gives
financial assistance to companies in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Kenya</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Uganda</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zambia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
etc. I
was also told that there could be a high possibility that they could
support
our upcoming chapter get off the ground. I was given some connections
and I
have contacted one of them and I am yet to receive a reply.<br>
<br>
Wimedia South <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>:<br>
Also, Delphine was on holiday over the past couple of weeks so we
weren't able
to communicate regarding our chapter's progress. However, she recently
went to
a workshop held by the South African Chapter and came up with a report.
Please
see the report at the end of this email. I would also kindly urge you
to
subscribe to the South African mailing list so that we can receive
up-to-date
intel of what our counterparts are doing. Visit <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza</a> to
subscribe.
Also see their meta page for more info: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa</a>.<br>
<br>
On the news:<br>
There has been an interesting saga where the FBI wants it's seal to be
removed
from Wikipedia. Read the full story on the New York Times: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?_r=1</a>.
(This
is a must-read article:-)). <br>
<br>
It is also interesting to note that the Swahili Wikipedia, now having
18,000
articles is now the largest African-language Wikipedia beating the
Africaans
(South African) Wikipedia that has 15,000 articles!<br>
<br>
That's all from me,<br>
<br>
I am, yours,<br>
Abbas Mahmoud.<br>
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