Dear All,
I trust we are all doing great and are all aware of the scheduled
Mombasa Outreach this Friday. You can take a look at the Meta page
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya_Outreach_2012 to
know what we have in store .
I have created a small budget for the same here too:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Kenya_Outreach_2012 and
would love your input into it.
So far no one has come out ON-LIST to volunteer to help with the
Outreach (except for 2 off-list requests of Morine and Ednah) So if
you still think you could volunteer for the same, Kindly get in touch.
==KU Outreach Updates==
So I have been in touch with the KU Administration over the small
outreach talk we owe them from last year and I managed to squeeze an
appointment tomorrow 29th 2012 for the same. Looks like all is set and
If you are interested in joining me for the meetup, please get in
touch too.
We would be having pretty the same talk to KU Students sometimes maybe
next week or so similar to what we are going to deliver to Mombasa.
In that regard, I would like to have somone Step in for m for th KU
and possibly subsequent Outreaches as I am soon starting my Full time
job and am not sure I will be better placed to coordinate all this
Years Outreaches as planned.
Steve is taking charge for the Egerton Outreach slated for 10th of March?
Regards,
--
Limoke Oscar,
Dear all,The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has two slots that are Chapter-Selected Trustees(http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_…. The 2012 Chapter Selected Board Seats process has already started. Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats
The list of candidates vying is publicly available: http:// meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates. You have until 14th March to ask questions to the candidates, so please put your questions on this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates… are already some questions and some answers there)
Candidates are not forced to answer, and even if they do, they're not forced to answer in public, so might happens that
some answers won't go to meta. Also do keep in mind this isn't a community vote. And therefore some discussions will not be publicly available. And since we have some Wikimedia Foundation Board Members & Staff on this mailing list, we wouldn't be able to hold this discussion on this mailing list. So in case you want to discuss a candidate, please do so off-list. And also, in case you have a candidate that you'd like to choose on behalf of Wikimedia Kenya, please also notify me off-list.Thanks,Abbas Mahmood
dear all
please add information on the Wikimedia Kenya on the GLAM newsletter! congratulations. maybe you also have some images you can add.
please add all the relevant information about your activities and links with cultural institutions
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2012/Contents/A…
it is a monthly newsletter and it is due tomorrow.
iolanda
Oliver,
thanks for the reply. No, I don't think we should delay the elections. I just wanted to clarify the details re the Chapters Agreement.
Thanks,
Abbas.
From: info(a)oliverstegen.net
To: abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:45:32 +0300
Hi Abbas,
Thanks for clarification. I had
misunderstood the deadline for the signing of the Chapter’s Agreement.
Would you rather that WMKE not rush the board election but take more time? If
nobody steps forward to moderate the election and if no candidates for the five
positions actually apply (or get nominated?) we won’t be able to hold it
on March 17 anyway … Sorry if I stepped on anyone’s toes. I just
thought it better to communicate to the entire mailing list what our little
group of six had discussed on Saturday.
Best wishes,
Oliver
From: Abbas Mahmood
[mailto:abbasjnr@hotmail.com]
Sent: 28 February 2012 20:59
To: info(a)oliverstegen.net
Subject: RE: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday
Photo Walk
Hi Oliver,
I'm not sure which documents you are referring to that need to be signed and
returned to the WMF. However, I presume that it's the Chapters Agreement. If
that's the case, then:
1) We (or to be precise, I) have not yet received any documentation from the
Foundation that requires our signing.
2) According to the Board Resolution, we have a time period of one year to sign
that Agreement.
--Abbas.
From: info(a)oliverstegen.net
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:31:32 +0300
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya]
Saturday Photo Walk
Hi WMKE friends and fellows,
We (= Steve, Oscar, Alex, Chris, Morine
and yours truly) had a great photo walk today, starting from the New Tom Mboya Monument
on Moi Avenue and then crossing Haile Selassie to the Nairobi Railway Museum
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_Railway_Museum - and
notice that the article doesn’t have a picture yet, which should change
soon!). From there, we went back to Koinange St and ended our walk at the
Savannah Coffee Lounge on Loita St where Wikimedia Kenya had its first face-to-face
meeting in July 2010 – so, many historical memories! J
I’m looking forward to seeing a
number of photos uploaded onto Commons (Steve, are you going to go through
those 400+ pictures, select the best of each building and post them in the
Category:Nairobi?).
At Savannah, there was also some talk of
stream-lining the information of this mailing list with the two WMKE websites
on Meta and @co.ke – currently, some info isn’t available *anywhere* - bother!
Finally, we also discussed the upcoming
board elections and suggested that these take place on March 17th
(anything else would be too late – we need to send some documents to WMF
with signatures of board members, so there! – and the next two weekends
are already booked with outreaches to Mombasa
and Egerton). So, within the next 8 days, candidates to the 5 board positions
(Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Project / Logistics Officer) need
to write up their profiles. These should be sent to whoever will be in charge
of the elections … another question which has to be solved soonest!
So, let’s get cracking so that we
don’t lose our newly won chapterhood!
Yours for making the sum of all human
knowledge available to every single fellow inhabitant of our planet,
Oliver (aka BT)
From: stephen wanjau
[mailto:wanjaustev@gmail.com]
Sent: 24 February 2012 20:34
To: info(a)oliverstegen.net
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday
Photo Walk
Hello,
So far only six people have filled in their names at the etherpad.
We hope to meet at the Tom Mboya monument, along Tom Mboya Street adjacent to Kenya
National Archives at 10:00am where we shall decide which route to take as per
the goals here.
Basic requirements:
Camera (not compulsory!)
Walk/Vehicle to move around/ public transport/
autos are also okay.
Data cable/ card reader for transfer of photos.
Disable on-image timestamps or other data that
appears over-top of images.
Please empty the memory card.
Other activities:
Encourage new people from outside the community
to join.
This is a team event.
Do's:
Bring plenty of water.
Do not worry about the angles/ nitty gritties of
the photo or your camera skills!
Try and take a clear shot of the building.
Note down the list of places, names of buildings
that you photograph.
If you learn something new about a landmark/
statue/ building, do pass on the info. It would be very useful to update
in the wiki pages.
If you want to leave early, make sure you transfer
your pictures to team volunteer.
Do not:
Do not take pictures of people - To maintain a
level of decency and also not to breach privacy
Remember that all photos will be used for
Wikipedia, hence do not include personal photos.
Personal photos will not be considered for
selection.
Do not waste time, respect the time limit.
Do not go into people's homes to photograph. All
photos to be buildings/ statues/ landmarks of Nairobi.
Do not take photos where it is prohibited to do
so.
Just in case something is not clear, please feel free to ask.
regards,
Stephen.
<snip>
_______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list
WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Hi WMKE friends and fellows,
We (= Steve, Oscar, Alex, Chris, Morine and yours truly) had a great photo
walk today, starting from the New Tom Mboya Monument on Moi Avenue and then
crossing Haile Selassie to the Nairobi Railway Museum (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_Railway_Museum - and notice that the
article doesn't have a picture yet, which should change soon!). From there,
we went back to Koinange St and ended our walk at the Savannah Coffee Lounge
on Loita St where Wikimedia Kenya had its first face-to-face meeting in July
2010 - so, many historical memories! :-)
I'm looking forward to seeing a number of photos uploaded onto Commons
(Steve, are you going to go through those 400+ pictures, select the best of
each building and post them in the Category:Nairobi?).
At Savannah, there was also some talk of stream-lining the information of
this mailing list with the two WMKE websites on Meta and @co.ke - currently,
some info isn't available *anywhere* - bother!
Finally, we also discussed the upcoming board elections and suggested that
these take place on March 17th (anything else would be too late - we need to
send some documents to WMF with signatures of board members, so there! - and
the next two weekends are already booked with outreaches to Mombasa and
Egerton). So, within the next 8 days, candidates to the 5 board positions
(Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Project / Logistics Officer)
need to write up their profiles. These should be sent to whoever will be in
charge of the elections . another question which has to be solved soonest!
So, let's get cracking so that we don't lose our newly won chapterhood!
Yours for making the sum of all human knowledge available to every single
fellow inhabitant of our planet,
Oliver (aka BT)
_____
From: stephen wanjau [mailto:wanjaustev@gmail.com]
Sent: 24 February 2012 20:34
To: info(a)oliverstegen.net
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk
Hello,
So far only six people have filled in their names at the etherpad.
We hope to meet at the Tom Mboya monument, along Tom Mboya Street adjacent
to Kenya National Archives at 10:00am where we shall decide which route to
take as per the goals here.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_takes_Nairobi/Goals>
Basic requirements:
* Camera (not compulsory!)
* Walk/Vehicle to move around/ public transport/ autos are also okay.
* Data cable/ card reader for transfer of photos.
* Disable on-image timestamps or other data that appears over-top of
images.
* Please empty the memory card.
Other activities:
* Encourage new people from outside the community to join.
* This is a team event.
Do's:
* Bring plenty of water.
* Do not worry about the angles/ nitty gritties of the photo or your
camera skills!
* Try and take a clear shot of the building.
* Note down the list of places, names of buildings that you
photograph.
* If you learn something new about a landmark/ statue/ building, do
pass on the info. It would be very useful to update in the wiki pages.
* If you want to leave early, make sure you transfer your pictures to
team volunteer.
Do not:
* Do not take pictures of people - To maintain a level of decency and
also not to breach privacy
* Remember that all photos will be used for Wikipedia, hence do not
include personal photos.
* Personal photos will not be considered for selection.
* Do not waste time, respect the time limit.
* Do not go into people's homes to photograph. All photos to be
buildings/ statues/ landmarks of Nairobi.
* Do not take photos where it is prohibited to do so.
Just in case something is not clear, please feel free to ask.
regards,
Stephen.
<snip>
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Waasalumu ,
I hope we are doing great. It has been a week since I asked for your
input into the above. Since I got none, I went ahead with the plans
for the same.
So Wkimedia Kenya and Mozuilla Kenya had sometime last year discussed
and greed on having an Outreach this year to introduce guys to our
work.(https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Kenya-Mozilla-Wikimedia-Outreach
and https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Kenya-Road-Trip-Institutions)
For Wikimedia, we would hold a few Wiki Academies to show guys how and
what it takes to create Wikipedia and hope they will be apart of it
and contribute if not make good use of other Wikimedia Resources in
their daily life.
So the first outreach is almost here with us and I have been working
on it with Alex from the Mozilla Camp and since we do not have
sufficient budget and resources as Mozilla does ( I understand they
really do have lots of cash for Outreach this year :-) ), we have
agreed that Wikimedia Kenya will only need to cater for the boarding
and travel expenses for its participants. We are still ironing out the
details of hiring or finding a venue. Our audience in Mombasa will
include guys from GTUG Mombasa and a few techies and developers in
Mombasa and calling for a few students who would make it to the
meetup. We have a liaison with the GTUG Guys in Mombasa helping with
the coordination.
So this is a call for anyone keen on helping or who has a presentation
and teaching to do to step forward (A maximum of 3 people). Tentative
dates are March 9th to 10th
Your input is eagerly awaited and volunteers too
Regards,
--
Limoke Oscar,