Thanks so much Asaf you really inspired us. <br>Members I enjoyed Wikimania 2011 and I must say it was a big experience to me. I want to thank Jessie Wild for her invaluable support and Guidance, Abbas for being with us every step of the way, Ting Chen for his advice.<br>
I met and held several meetings with editors from all over the world and the most notable ones were as follows:<br>1. A meeting with Wikimedia UK members including the chair person Roger Bamkin- who FYI paid for my ticket and accommodation expenses, I also met with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough</a> and together we presented a project on the translation of HIV/AIDS information into local languages in Sub Saharan Africa with Kenya as a Lead chapter.<br>
2.Meeting with various members of the New york Chapter.<br>3. Meeting with Italian Chapter members-they are interested in supporting Kenyan Chapter.<br>I also met the following people briefly- Sue Gardner-Wikimedia Ceo, Jimmy Wales-Wikimedia Founder,Frank Schulenburg<br>


Global Education Program Director, and almost all the Board members. Check out the Photos in <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kipsizoo">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kipsizoo</a><br>
Here is one of the mails I got as a follow up to one of the meetings I held.<br><br>I will be Presenting a Guest Talk at Harvard University in the USA  in September this year and I will have a meeting with John Kerry and so many other People, Rest assured that I will <br>
===================================================================================================<br>Hi Isaac,<br>
<br>
Thanks a lot for our meeting yesterday. As promised, I&#39;m sending you a short summary of what we talked about.<br>
<br>
The Kenyan Wikimedia chapter is planning a project to improve the 
Swahili Wikipedia in the areas health (especially information about 
HIV), law and agriculture. The project is expected to start in September
 2011 and will involve universities in Nairobi. Your plan is to 
encourage students to translate a number of select high-quality articles
 from the English Wikipedia into Swahili.<br>
<br>
Based on the fact that the Wikimedia Foundation started a Global 
Education Program this month and that we gathered substantial 
experiences in working with universities over the last year, you are 
asking for the following support:<br>
<br>
1. Guidance, best practices and lessons learnt: information of what 
worked and what didn&#39;t work in the past. Ideally, this would happen in 
form of a face to face meeting with members of the chapters and the 
local community in Nairobi.<br>
<br>
2. Media exposure: some help with raising interest of local media in Kenya.<br>
<br>
3. Sue Gardner being in Kenya: every second half of the year, Sue is 
travelling to a number of countries to talk about Wikipedia and 
Wikimedia. You thought it might be great to have her in Nairobi to talk 
to students and teachers.<br>
<br>
4. Professor outreach and recruitment: we&#39;ve had the experience that 
university professors are eager to talk to someone of the Wikimedia 
Foundation. It proved to be beneficial to start university outreach with
 in person meetings.<br>
<br>
5. Fellowship: in India, we provided one of our US volunteers with a 
3-month fellowship so he could coordinate the program activities on the 
ground. Currently, PJ Tabit, one of our Ambassadors from George 
Washington university is in Pune and helps the local team to get the 
India Education Program started. Alex Stinson told me yesterday that he 
is interested in coming to Kenya next year to support you.<br>
<br>
6. Exchange program: a volunteer from Kenya would come to the US or some
 other country and learn more about the existing university program. 
Also, professor who used Wikipedia in the classroom in the past would 
come to Kenya to talk about his experiences and to encourage Kenyan 
teachers to participate (we&#39;ve done something similar in India: Bob 
Cummings, a professor from the US travelled to Pune and talked to local 
professors -- this has been very successful in getting teachers in Pune 
interested in the program.<br>
<br>
I am copying Richard and Roger, as you indicated that Wikimedia UK would be interested in being involved in the project.<br>
<br>
Isaac and Alex: please let me know if I forgot something and if you have more to add.<br>
<br>
Thanks again for the meeting -- I really enjoyed it.<br>
<br>
Frank<br>
Frank Schulenburg<br>

Global Education Program Director<br>

Wikimedia Foundation<br>
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<br>Lastly guys I think it would be important that we have a meet up so that we share the expirience.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 14:25, Asaf Bartov <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:abartov@wikimedia.org">abartov@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I would like to commend WMKE&#39;s representatives, Alex and Isaac, for their excellent participation in Wikimania.  They have both been active in and out of the sessions, exchanging ideas and experience with their peers from around the world, offering input during the sessions, and socializing and creating contacts during the breaks and the parties.<div>


<br></div><div>That&#39;s the way you do it! :)</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to seeing all of you very soon (next week!) in Nairobi.</div><div><br></div><div>    Asaf<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>
</div><div class="h5">On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Alex Wafula <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:xelawafs@yahoo.com" target="_blank">xelawafs@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">
<div><span>Hi all,</span></div>

<div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Just got back home and it&#39;s been great! I&#39;ll be catching up on campus stuff the next day or two before getting back to the list.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>


<span>Isaac&#39;s been a superstar back in Haifa, laying foundations for new Wikimedia projects we can pursue in Kenya and Africa in general most notably being this: <a href="http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule/Lightning_Talks#AIDS.2FHIV_information_in_Sub_Saharan_Africa.2C_in_selected_languages" target="_blank">http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule/Lightning_Talks#AIDS.2FHIV_information_in_Sub_Saharan_Africa.2C_in_selected_languages</a></span></div>


<div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Other viable projects we&#39;ve been involved in, collected contacts and hope can be pursued locally are:</span></div><ul><li><span>Offline Wikipedia</span></li><li><span>Campus Ambassadors program</span></li>


<li><span>WikiAfrica (looking forward to assist us in
 local projects)<br></span></li><li><span>Wikipedia Takes the City (Wikimedia France are willing to fund this. Abbas got in touch and I eventually got to meet the chapter&#39;s president)</span></li><li><span>Wiki loves Monuments</span></li>


<li><span>Research on Oral Citation (presented by Achal, awesome guy!)</span></li></ul>Well there&#39;s a lot to cover so we&#39;ll probably result to having different threads for specific topics. Look out for the pics, coming up soon! Anyhu, I&#39;m off to take a nap.<br>


<br>Ps: Asaf&#39;s coming next week and he&#39;s really looking to his stay here.<br><br>cheers,<br><font color="#888888">Alex<br></font></div></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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