I agree, Its a Challenge rather than an embarrassment to us. :-) What matters is now for us to re-energize ourselves and re-align our objectives to move forward.

Oliver, I am still calling on folks interested to join the User Group model so that we can re-establish a membership based on interests and commitment. Am assuming we will have to get new commitment from folks. So far we have : Dennis, Oliver, Steve and I. when we get to 6, we can have our 1st meeting. Yes?

Thanks for all the wishes Asaf, SJ and Tom

Regards,

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Oliver Stegen <info@oliverstegen.net> wrote:

+1

Any meetings of our group on the horizon? Either RL or virtual/online?

With continued hope and best wishes for Wikimedia in East Africa,
BT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Klein [mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com]
> Sent: 18 March 2013 20:57
> To: The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2014:
> Officialbid list
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it's a shame, and shouldn't be a pain: organizing a bid is
> a
> > lot of work, but is almost purely on-wiki, and can be done by one or two
> >
> > Anyhow, we should all be happy for our Tanzanian colleagues for having
> found
> > the initiative and energy to do this. It's not a competition. :)
>
> Yes. You might even try working with them to organize a shared
> regional event, if their bid for Wikimania itself doesn't work out.
> They clearly have a lot of energy for bringing people and speakers
> together around Wikimedia topics.
>
> > Like I said in my more formal letter, you must not look upon the
> expiration
> > of the provisional recognition as a blow or as a failure -- it was
> merely a
> > deadline expiring, for a formal process that doesn't actually matter as
> much
> > as it used to, because we now have these new affiliation models, which
> would
> > have been more suitable in the first place, had they existed at the
> time.
>
> Yes. And once you have some projects underway, if they start to grow,
> you may always reapply to become a Chapter.
>
> SJ
>
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