Abbas,

I had talked about Camara in a different thread; And I didn't want to respond to talk about it here again so as to minimize confusion; but you raised an issue that I must respond to:

I know of Camara because their hub was located in my former high school in Mombasa. AFAIK, they initially had an (empty) office in Nairobi, since most of them insisted on staying in Mombasa. [citation needed]

Your proposed visit will be in August, and that will be Ramadan. Mombasa, being mostly Islamic, means that during that month people work less. What I'm trying to say here is that since the beginning, Camara folks did not want to come to Nairobi, and I wouldn't expect them to agree to travel during Ramadhan.

I think we stand a better chance if we go to Mombasa. I am aware that there is relatively low or no Wikimedia activity in Mombasa. But that is the very essence of our chapter: to increase awareness and participation of Wikimedia in Kenya. If we focus only on Nairobi, then I honestly feel we are failing in our mission. Maybe all these other folks need is a push or a spark.

Abbas.

From: abartov@wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:04:08 -0700
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Khan Academy

Excellent idea, Abbas, and thank you, Jessie, for these links.

Note that Camara is represented in Kenya, in Mombasa:
http://kenya.camara.ie/

Perhaps WMKE can help Camara expand the Kenya operation?  Perhaps, likewise, Camara can support and help WMKE?  Please take some time to look into this.  

Could we maybe reach out to them and see if we can get them to meet us in Nairobi during my upcoming visit?

Cheers,

    Asaf

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jessie Wild <jwild@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all -

yes, Khan is something that is widely distributed in the same open education resources community that our Offline Wikipedia is very popular in! There are some offline projects that already package it together with our resources along with others, including Camara[1] and the RACHEL education portal.

It would be awesome to figure out ways to add links (for example, at the top of a page in italics) to specific articles within the offline Wikipedia that sync to a complementary video lesson, imho :)

Jessie

[1] http://camara.ie/web/
[2] http://rachel.worldpossible.org/


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21 AM, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com> wrote:
Yep , I definately endorse this idea because it is in appraisal of our objectives as a chapter.
Cheers
Stephen W. Wanjau
On Jul 13, 2011 7:41 PM, "Limoke Oscar" <oslimoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have found its lessons very useful of it.And I would suggest we
> incorporate the meetup with Asaf's meetup.
> I definitely support the idea
>
> On 7/13/11, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Has anyone of you guys heard of Khan Academy(www.khanacademy.org)? Khan
>> Academy is a multiple-award winning non-profit organization/website that has
>> free collections of educational videos ranging from Math, Calculus, Algebra,
>> Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and man more.
>> I was thinking of carrying out an offline project with Khan where we'd
>> download and distribute these videos to educational institutions probably
>> during September. If you guys are interested, I'll arrange a meetup where we
>> could discuss the way forward.
>> Cheers,Abbas.
>
>
> --
> Limoke Oscar,
> mayenge.blogspot.com
> Freelancer,
> GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
>
> _______________________________________________
> WikimediaKE mailing list
> WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake


_______________________________________________
WikimediaKE mailing list
WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake




--
Jessie Wild
Global Development, Manager
Wikimedia Foundation



_______________________________________________
WikimediaKE mailing list
WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake




--
    Asaf Bartov
    Wikimedia Foundation


_______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake