Chris is right. Maybe it's also worth asking: who wants to go?, how many people are(or should be) going?, and who will speak*?

What I know of is that chapters usually apply for a start-up grant that helps them off the ground. This start up is aimed at paying the legal fees, registration fees, conferences, logistics, etc. Another option that chapters use is the money collected from membership fees is used to cater for such activities.

Sincerely,

Abbas.

*Asaf and I had an informal chat while he was here and he suggested that we come up with a Speakers List -- which I think is a very good idea. The people on this list should be really good at public speaking: have a fair knowledge of what Wikip|media is; and IMO, are capable of answering questions from an audience satisfactorily. This list would be the first turning point whenever we need a speaker to be deployed at a certain event. Of course, this is just a suggestion -- and is open to refute.


Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:11:30 +0300
From: chriwaustin@gmail.com
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Invitation to Kabarak University

Hi, the opportunity presented is quite interesting and worth exploiting. However, we have a very short period of time to prepare ourselves before the due date and I think that we might not have sufficient time to acquire the requisite grant from the foundation. Therefore, I am suggesting that if possible (interested parties) we finance ourselves for the trip and then the foundation can re-embers the spent amount afterwards. Please advice.
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