I like Oscar’s idea of having WikiSaturdays on different campuses. And while you’re negotiating that, may I suggest that the different campus groups meet on *different* Saturdays? Like Strathmore on the first Saturday of the month, JKUAT on the second etc. – that way those of us who are not affiliated with a campus (but also have less flexibility due to job and family obligations) would have more Saturdays to choose from and be enabled to attend at least one Saturday per month. For my part I know that if WikiSaturday was always the last Saturday, and *only* the last, I won’t be able to attend too many of them L

Fwiw, and cheers,

Oliver

From: wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Limoke Oscar
Sent: 25 April 2011 16:54
To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya ] WikiSaturday Plan B

Steve,
U explore on the details and workability of thye software with regards to the modems.Now what remains is the venue??

Guys,
Another wild suggestion guys is since some of us JKUAT) are resuming session from this week onwards,and we have access to WiFi,what if we start thinking of having Local Campus WikiSaturdays?Like why should we have JKUAT guys having there own WikiSaturday and hoipefully recruit newbies in the Campus,Strath the same and staff...Plus anyone could attend any of the WikiDays he/she wishes and can make to.It would be quite cheap for both of us...Then we could have live discussions via IRC,chats,etherpads and staff....just an idea to make voluntary manageble to all of us...:P

Regards,

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr@hotmail.com> wrote:

Thank you all for clarifying :)

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:30:23 +0300
From: raidarmax@gmail.com

To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya ] WikiSaturday Plan B

Abbas,

The speed was not slow because of the phone or anything, it was the coverage. I have managed to use the connection with 6 people and it was good if you have a good coverage. The Safaricom 2bob per minute is actually quite fast. What you could do is get a GSM router so that u can use that.

I have one GSM router that am willing lend if need be. I will be in Nairobi on Wednesday. Let me know who I can pass it to if that option is taken, its fast and it gives you freedom to do the work anywhere.

David.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Chris Riwa <chriwaustin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Abbas, the connectify thing that Steve is suggesting is superb. We have used it for a while and it works just fine. We even got to use it when we were in Nyeri to connect all our laptops to the net. Talk to him and he'll best explain how it works. I am just another user and not in a position to give you the details of how the hot spot is created. Thanks.

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