Hallo everyone,
These are the minutes for the Wiki-Saturday session that we held today on
25th of June 2011 at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
main campus, Juja.
*In attendance* today were:
- Stephen (Chairperson)
- Chris (Secretary)
- Oscar
- Alex
- Sarah
- Lillian
Our *guest* was
- Edwin
Top on the *Agenda* we had,
1. The Wikipedia takes Nairobi Challenge
2. Asaf's visit
3. The AoA and MoA of the Chapter's incorporation
4. The next Wiki-Saturday
5. Others
*Minutes*
1. The meeting began at 11:00am at the JKUAT's Assembly Hall Foyer.
2. We discussed at length on the current status of the challenge. So far
the areas/ locations / places to be photographed are being populated. This
has been through the efforts of Alex, Oscar and Steve. We all got to learn
how to populate the meta. However, it came to our concern that some
buildings or locations of interest had no articles written about them both
in the English and Swahili Wikipedia. But we decided to create stubs under
the Swahili Wikipedia and link them to the sites of interest. This way we'll
have more articles up in the Wiki and still have more commons up after the
challenge.
- Efforts have also been put to try and get a sponsor for the
challenge (Samsung) as well as support and authorization from
the ICT board.
This have also been fast tracked by Alex.
- It has come to our concern that some articles edited on the English
Wikipedia are being deleted without sufficient reason being
provided. So it
would be quite important for someone to elaborate further on
what is going
on or on what is not being done correctly by the editors.
- Points for the challenge are going to be awarded according to the
location of the point of interest. For instance, CBD will be ten points,
Westlands 15points, Lang'ata 20 points, Ngong' 25points, Dandora 30points
and so on.
3. As you all know, Asaf's visit is coming up in like a months time.
Its very important we start planning on his accommodation and schedule of
activities ASAP. So we proposed Alex to to help oversee this since he has
severally hosted visitors under Mozilla hence has the best ideas on how we
can go about this.
4. We suggested that we should have more members look into the drafts
articles and memorandum of association and propose the desired changes on
the wiki. We need to increase the speed at which we are dealing with the
incorporation issue for us to have clear cut responsibilities and duties
for everyone in the Chapter. This will be for our own long term and short
term good.
- The responsibilities of the board members are not clear yet especially
that of the project manager. So lets try and put our suggestions up as
quickly as possible on the wiki.
5. The next Wiki - Saturday should be organized by our members from
the Strathmore University. This should be held either on Saturday the 16th
or 23rd of July 2011. Lets all try to attend these sessions as they really
boost our team spirit and gets to open us up even more. We still insisted
that even though the mailing list is a reliable tool for our communication,
it is still not enough. So lets show up for the Wiki-Saturdays for our own
improvements.
6. Meeting was adjourned at 3:30pm East African Time and a tour of the
JKUAT environs commenced immediately for our guest.
Thank you all for your participation in making this event a success. On
behalf of the hosts, I would like to say it was a pleasure hosting this
Wiki-Saturdays session. Thank you and be blessed.
N/B Participants please feel free to make your additions in case you note an
omission.
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