WikimediaKE February 2013

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[Wikimedia Kenya] From chapter to user group
by Asaf Bartov 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Dear colleagues in Kenya, I would like to let you know that (after consultation with the Affiliations Committee) the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Sue Gardner, is not extending the Board of Trustees' provisional recognition of your group as Wikimedia Kenya. We recommend you pursue recognition as Wikimedia User Group instead. The recognition was conditional upon incorporation within a year, and that has not happened. In addition, the provisional board disintegrated (with some people leaving the chapter entirely) and no replacement announced, almost no activity took place this past year, casting doubt on the group's sustainability as a chapter, and certain personal issues added much confusion and demoralization, which no doubt contributed to the inactivity. In parallel, the Wikimedia movement has created new models of affiliation, not available at the time your group was seeking recognition, that we are confident would better serve your group at this stage, and would be more appropriate, than the traditional incorporated chapter model. Specifically, we encourage you to seek Wikimedia User Group recognition (via AffCom -- e-mail affcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org) right now, which will give you almost all the benefits of chapter recognition, with almost none of the bureaucracy: trademark permission will be available to you, and as you know, grants are always available, even to unincorporated groups (and we will take steps to improve group oversight and governance to minimize risk). Everything I know about this group and about AffCom suggests this should be a smooth process. Note that this does mean that the name "Wikimedia Kenya" should no longer be used by you or others to refer to your group, and specifically, that you are not to incorporate under that name. (It is best if incorporation under any name is postponed until there's a better idea of the group's interest, capacity, and plans. Creating a formal entity prematurely could saddle you with inconvenient responsibilities without any of the benefits.) "Wikimedians in Kenya", "Friends of Wikipedia in Kenya", and any number of other names you may feel comfortable with, are good possibilities for the name of your group, and can be recognized by the WMF if you do choose to pursue User Group recognition. We'd like to stress this is neither a punishment nor a demotion of your group; it is actually an adjustment of what we call the group to match reality and to adhere to the original terms of the provisional recognition. We recognize your dedicated and valuable contributions in the past, and look forward to renewed energy and accomplishments on this new path, as a user group, and will be happy to support you in this in every way we can. On behalf of Sue Gardner and the Wikimedia Foundation, Asaf Bartov -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Mombasa Tech Group wants an Outreach and Collaboration
by Limoke Oscar 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello Everyone, As some of us remember, Last year, we organized some Outreach Ecents across various regions in Kenya including Mombasa and Nakuru ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya/Outreach_2012 ) The Mombasa Outreach was held in collaboration with the Kenyan Mozilla Community and the The Mombasa Tech Group in Mombasa. The Mombasa Tech Group is requesting if we could have such Outreach Events and allow them to engage and collaborate with us in various Wikimedia Related events/activities this year. To quote We were thinking to collaborate with you on working out on a > Wikipedia/Wikimedia event whereby you guys can come down and train more and > more people on Wikimedia. > We can also discuss and plan for a competition related to Wikimedia > commons,GLAM contest or anything interesting that will promote as well as > benefit Wikimedia and the tech community as well. > I think this is a positive step in the r-grouping of our chapter and reaching out to newer member of the community and contributors. As such, can we start thinking and drawing up of a Schedule for the year and some of the events and activities we can engage in? -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, Dream.Believe.Become....a world of endless opportunities "I will open the book. Its pages are blank. I am going to put words on them myself. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is the dawn of every New Day."

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Meetup
by Alex Wafula 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hi all, First of all, a very big thank you to all those who made it for Saturday's meetup and for those of you who couldn't make it, we made sure to document everything here: http://wikimedia.or.ke/Meeting_Minutes:16_Jan_2013 Feel free to chip in on the discussion page or this thread. A summary though: - *Company Registration*: It will take a month from this week to get a certificate of registration issued - *Offline Wikipedia*: We need to submit a spreadsheet of articles we want for our zim file. Dennis is following up on this - *Mombasa Outreach*: In a bid to make activities in Mombasa more self sustainable, most people felt that getting someone from Mombasa to attend a major Wikipemedia event in Nairobi may be more productive. - *Themed Monthly meetups*: We already have thoughts lined up from March to May. Asaf, let us know if you are still up to doing something over video con this April - *Financial Oversight Committee*: Alex and Bruce to balance off last year's expenditure and issue report Alex

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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Themed Monthly Meetups
by Alex Wafula 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

I meant the 16th. That's a Saturday. Alex On Feb 11, 2013 11:54 AM, "David Mugo" <raidarmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Themed Monthly Meetups
by Alex Wafula 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hi all, I think we really had a good thing going with the monthly meetups. I'd suggest we resume with this and have every meetup geared towards aching a particular task eg: edits on specific topics, focus on commons etc We can have it ran by someone different every month, to make it participatory and exciting. Building from that, we haven't met this year so I'm usggesting a meetup for the 15th of Feb. Any takers...? Alex

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Response to Bence
by Abbas Mahmood 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Dear Bence, (Sorry for the very delayed response: I had hoped that a more appropriate person would have made an ''official'' response.) WRT the Chapter founding, I recently (last week, I think) connected Alex with the lawyer, to resume the legal process, which was halted after the misappropriation saga. I don't expect Alex (and Alex can correct me if I'm wrong) to have made any progress thus far, as things are still moving sluggishly after the (organizational) hiatus. Thanks, Abbas.

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