May I take this chance that already makes me feel like a hero as the team leader for Nyeri pilot to give you a brief summary for the pilot.I am putting together the titbits to have a detailed report that I will avail at WWW.Wikimedia.or.ke.
I must first thank God for everything and then thank my team for not only their egregious perfomance but for also making the trip an erudite & exuberant experience,and not forgetting all the members of Wikimedia Kenya who took part in a way or the other to make the pilot successful.
We managed to have 10+1 schools onboard! The extra school came up as we did our presentation in one of the schools, kumbe among the active audience was a teacher from another school in Karatina (which is around 40km from Nyeri) she was so impressed by what we were offering to schools and she even went ahead to request us to passby her school.we could not make it Because our schedule was tight,but we took it upon us to show her how to install and go about the Wikipedia for schools.I decided to go the extra mile, which is never crowded and I armed her with a copy of the DVD and the users manual albeit I did not tell her to sign the completion certificate because we did not personally visit the school.
We managed to do presentations in five schools.we could not make to do this in all the ten because examinations in most of the schools were underway,and I think this should be factored in projects we could undertake in the future.
During the presentations we flaunted the Wikimedia foundation projects but later narrowed down to Wikipedia which in this case was our prime objective of the visit.
We showed them how to create Wikipedia accounts and how to write articles for the encyclopedia.infact we lured them to do more by writing short articles-a line or two about their respective schools.
Sad to note though,the viruses at these schools computers had no benign intent.two of the laptops that we had with us were infected and the kiwix application couldn't run anymore!we had connected these laptops using crossover cables to expedite the copying process after seeing the dire need to have more computers copy the kiwix and the zim file simultaneously.I think that was a "lesson well learnt" .but this did not deter us from carrying on.Thanks to technology.
All in all the trip was successful.
Now sounding reminiscent,Nyeri is the home of scouting and the final resting place of the founder of the world wide brotherhood of scouts Robert Baden Powell.
Once again thank you everyone for every input into this noble course.
On Mar 29, 2011 10:01 AM, "Limoke Oscar" <oslimoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey.
> Guys am back home and feeling great.I just want all of us to know that we
> are doing a great work and the World is watching us and is proud of our
> efforts.Lets keep up the spirit.Will post you more in the coming days once
> am settled...
> cheers and great work guys.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:29 AM, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> May I take this chance to inform you that the Nyeri pilot went live as
>> scheduled and so far we have visited two schools.
>> Namely ;
>> Nyeri high school and Temple road secondary.
>> It has been quite a great success.
>>
>> Important to NOTE,the bug that was preventing computers running on XP from
>> indexing has been taken care of by some software-which is a c++ library
>> that I think was missing,Alex sent me the link where I found this library.
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2011 7:13 PM, "Chris Riwa" <chriwaustin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thnx steve, lets do this.
>> >
>> > On 3/23/11, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> From: stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:51 PM
>> >> Subject: Fwd: Nyeri
>> >> To: chriwaustin@gmail.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> From: stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM
>> >> Subject: Fwd: Nyeri
>> >> To: gkariuki99@gmail.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> From: stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:05 PM
>> >> Subject: Nyeri
>> >> To: gkariuki99@gmail.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi chris,
>> >>
>> >> I hope you are fine.I am writing this to serve as a notification that
>> the
>> >> Nyeri pilot shall be going live
>> >> On Monday the 28th March 2011.
>> >>
>> >> Regarding the same we shall leave Nairobi on Sunday 0830h (GMT).The
>> Nyeri
>> >> shuttles are found along Latima <http://goo.gl/maps/UH7L> RDkindly give
>> me
>> >> a call on the safaricom number below to facilitate the same.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> regards
>> >> Nyeri Team Leader
>> >> Stephen Wathika Wanjau
>> >> Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology.
>> >> Bsc. Mathematics (*Statistics*) and Computer Science.
>> >> Cell:+254 722 238 165
>> >> +254 736 429 517
>> >>
>> >> Facebook: www.facebook.com/swanjau
>> >>
>> >> Twitter: www.twitter.com/haha_wanjau
>> >>
>> >> skype:stephenwanjau1
>> >>
>> >> "*changing how the world works*"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Stephen Wathika Wanjau
>> >> Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology.
>> >> Bsc. Mathematics (*Statistics*) and Computer Science.
>> >> Cell:+254 722 238 165
>> >> +254 736 429 517
>> >>
>> >> Facebook: www.facebook.com/swanjau
>> >>
>> >> Twitter: www.twitter.com/haha_wanjau
>> >>
>> >> skype:stephenwanjau1
>> >>
>> >> "*changing how the world works*"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Stephen Wathika Wanjau
>> >> Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology.
>> >> Bsc. Mathematics (*Statistics*) and Computer Science.
>> >> Cell:+254 722 238 165
>> >> +254 736 429 517
>> >>
>> >> Facebook: www.facebook.com/swanjau
>> >>
>> >> Twitter: www.twitter.com/haha_wanjau
>> >>
>> >> skype:stephenwanjau1
>> >>
>> >> "*changing how the world works*"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Stephen Wathika Wanjau
>> >> Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology.
>> >> Bsc. Mathematics (*Statistics*) and Computer Science.
>> >> Cell:+254 722 238 165
>> >> +254 736 429 517
>> >>
>> >> Facebook: www.facebook.com/swanjau
>> >>
>> >> Twitter: www.twitter.com/haha_wanjau
>> >>
>> >> skype:stephenwanjau1
>> >>
>> >> "*changing how the world works*"
>> >>
>>
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