Grace and Oliver, There will be a meeting with the chapter members -- sorry, I had forgotten to include it in the schedule. It might probably be on Monday or Tuesday, still unsure because we haven't gotten a venue, yet: iHub's full in the August. Any other alternative recommendations will be highly appreciated :) Abbas. Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:36:33 +0300 From: gkariuki99@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania
hi everyone.Alex and Isaac thanks for being good ambasadors and representing us fully.
I look foward to next week.just a little enqiury.will Asaf hold a meeting with us upon arriving before we go to the university if nairobi?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbasjnr@hotmail.com wrote:
Isaac, See my comments below:
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:51:50 +0300 From: kips8505izo@gmail.com
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania
Thanks so much Asaf you really inspired us. 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.
And thanks to David, who offered financial assistance as well :) 3. Meeting with Italian Chapter members-they are interested in supporting Kenyan Chapter.
Great!!
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.
Ermmm, what translation project are you talking about?
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.
+1. BTW, in January, I was in talks with the Public Policy Initiative team and they had proposed for Frank to come to our Wiki10 Anniversary but he couldn't due to clashes in dates, since he was also invited to Hungary at around the same time.
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'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.
+1
Thanks for your efforts! Long live Wikimania. //abbas.
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