Hello everybody
As you all know, the Wikimedia Chapters Meeting will be held between 25th and 27th March as part of the Wikimedia Conference.
Wikimedia Kenya was asked to send two representatives to the meeting. We designed a poll for the interested and selected 13 founding members to vote for them (The polls needed people who have been active in Wikimedia Kenya for long enough to know all the activities of the Chapter).
The potential representatives that we were looking for must meet the following requirements:
- Someone who has
thorough acquaintance with the activities
of Wikimedia Kenya, ranging from the formation to the current
progress and projects...to the future plans of the chapter. We don't
want someone who'll embarrass us there. We should also consider someone
who's good at public speaking, b'coz the selected representatives
will present a powerpoint of what we've done before other chapters and
WMF staff.
- Considering
that
the period between now and 27th March is very short, I would
prefer someone who already has a travel passport or one who is
sure to acquire it by then.
- Though not very necessary, we should consider gender
sensitivity (1 female and 1 male)
- What has the nominee done for Wikimedia Kenya?
- Consider the
availability of the chosen persons. Let's not choose someone who will
later start giving apologies that they are committed somewhere and can't
make it to the conference.
- How will Wikimedia Kenya benefit by selecting <name of
nominee> to represent us at the chapters meeting.
Five persons showed interest to represent Wikimedia Kenya in the meeting, namely;
- Abbas Mahmoud
- Alex Wafula
- David Mugo
- Grace Kariuki
- Oscar Limoke