Thanks for the report Oscar. May I ask: how many people turned up? Plus during your free time, it might be great if you'd wikify this report onto our website (with more details such as turnover, program, pictures, date and location.) Otherwise, thanks for representing us well. --Abbas.
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 09:22:31 +0000 From: oslimoke@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org CC: community-kenya@lists.mozilla.org Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Coast Outreach Updates
Hi , So we had a great and eventful outreach in Mombasa over the weekend where we met with guys from Mombasa IT society. Mozilla Kenya Community and Wikimedia Kenya delivered interesting talks to the enthusiastic audience of mostly IT profession and students drawn from various Universities. It was exciting to see the level of enthusiasm and zeal from the audience and they were all willing to start the Mombasa Base for our future engagements.
We managed to distribute the Offline Wikipedia for schools to a couple of University students ( about 10) who were rely happy and excited about it. One of the main organisers of the event and who is spearheading efforts to create the Mombasa IT society offered to use my presentation to other meet-ups she was going to have and I gladly obliged.
We also had the chance to explore the rich culture and "Museum-ish" nature of Mombasa ( we all agreed that the whole of Mombasa is a Museum of its own kind :-) ) and we will be sharing the pics soon.The outreach was great and we had a great team from both camps and we look forward to such great and amazing outreach events.
PS: On the 9th to 10th, we have an official invitation to Egerton Universities and Steve is taking Charge of the sameOn the week of 14th, we have a date with KU and Alex is taking charge of that.
Cheers,