And someone from WMF is already interested in working with us! See message below.--Abbas
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:51:03 -0500 From: sumanah@wikimedia.org To: internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org; abbasjnr@hotmail.com; oslimoke@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Congratulations to Wikimedia Kenya!
Abbas Mahmood, Limoke Oscar, and all the other Wikimedia Kenya people -- welcome and congratulations! I look forward to meeting you at Wikimania, as many of you as can come.
I saw that you are interested in information/communication technology in schools, especially offline use of and access to Wikimedia content. I'd be happy to work with you on:
- encouraging Kenyan students to work on MediaWiki and related Wikimedia
open source projects -- we have some new tutorial texts and videos up at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials
- helping technology-minded Kenyan students apply for paid open source
work via Google Summer of Code, especially on MediaWiki -- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012
- sharing experiences with the Wikimedia Foundation's mobile/offline
engineering teams, and with Wikimedia Switzerland (which also sponsors Kiwix development) to ensure that Kiwix and mobile access work for you, in the educational contexts you've experienced
(Please feel free to forward my offer to public email lists, blogs, etc.)
Ahsante sana for all of your work, and best wishes!
-- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah