> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:47:26 +0300
> From: oslimoke@gmail.com
> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Visiting Kenya after Wikimania 2011
>
> Hi Guys,
> I have just requested the Director of e-learning JKUAT to allow us a
> visit when Asaf is around.However we are starting our exams around 5th
> August and it may be tricky to have audience with students.
> I would be finishing my exams on 15th and so I hope to join all of you
> guys thereafter.So if you see me quite,I am buried in my books"-)
> Regards,
>
> On 7/19/11, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Asaf,
> >> The iHub sounds great, and a post-1800 time for public speaking is not a
> >> problem for me! Can WMKE set it up? If there's a fee to use the iHub,
> >> the
> >> Foundation will pay it.
> > The problem is not with the you,most WMKE may not do a post-1800
> > meeting.The travel logistics in Nairobi may not allow most of us to
> > attend the meeting.I suggest we do a daytime meeting at some other
> > venue?The August memorial Park in the City Center?However they charge
> > a small fee.The iHub facility is free of charge for scheduled meetings
> > subject to availability and booking.
> >
> >
> >
> >> This sounds good to me. I have already contacted the Google Nairobi
> >> office,
> >> and they would be happy for me to visit. I'd like some of you to join
> >> me.
> >> I know some of you have already had contact with the Google Nairobi
> >> office,
> >> so perhaps we can use this opportunity to introduce some other WMKE
> >> members
> >> to the Google team? I think 3 or 4 WMKE members would be great to join
> >> me
> >> in that meeting. Securing Google as a sponsor for WTN would definitely
> >> be
> >> one goal of that meeting. What else do you think we could ask from
> >> Google?
> >> They wanted "numbers and figures", not your NGO registration papers;
> >> this
> >> means that if we can come up with concrete plans (with a budget, a
> >> realistic
> >> timeline, and a list of people committed to doing the work), we can move
> >> forward with securing support from Google (as well as the Foundation).
> >
> > Great.I contacted them and am still awaiting their response.Glad you
> > caught their attention.I would be happy to join you.
> >>
> >>
> >>> We also visited KU (www.ku.ac.ke) with Ting and we had a greta and
> >>> fruitful discussions with the Top Management of the Universities about
> >>> future areas of collaboration in advancing our aims.We were supposed
> >>> to get back to them and deliver an Outreach sort of talk to there
> >>> students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects
> >
> >> Excellent! Perhaps we can deliver a double talk as I proposed elsewhere
> >> --
> >> a general "introduction to Wikipedia" delivered by a WMKE member, and a
> >> talk
> >> on Wikimedia as a global movement (or on the Foundation and its strategy
> >> and
> >> plans?) by me. Is one of you willing to make this happen?
> > Our Contact at KU(Dr.Martin Njoroge) earlier on told me that our vsist
> > may not be possible as they KU Students will be away then.He wished it
> > were in September.I saw your request to the Director of e-learning in
> > a different thread and I hope we will be able to have a chat with him.
> > I would be finding the contacts of the Director of e-learning of JKUAT
> > and I hope you would not mind sedning a similar email to him.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Limoke O.
> >
>
>
> --
> Limoke Oscar,
> mayenge.blogspot.com
> Freelancer,
> GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
>
> _______________________________________________
> WikimediaKE mailing list
> WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake