Hi Asaf,
It would be great to have you around.I personally think your visit and talks will go along way in revitalizing WMKE like Tings visit did. About your schedule,
==Logistics== I will be arriving around Aug 14th or 15th, and leaving around Aug 19th or 20th. I will definitely be in Nairobi, and possibly also visit Mombasa.
==Meetup== I'd like to meet as many Wikimedia Kenya members (non-members also welcome!) as possible. If there's a lot of interest in Mombasa, I'll try to have a meetup and workshop there too. All we need for the meetup is a room large enough to contain all who would want to come, and reasonably quiet so we can hear ourselves talking.
I would suggest we visit one of the campuses in Nairobi and combine this aspect with the outreach aspect.You/we will have the opportuinity to recruit and spur interest in Campus.Since in JKUAT(my campus) wew would probably be having our exams,I would suggest either Strathmore,KU and Nairobi University.
Wifi and a projector would be a plus,we as WMKE have 2projectors so this solved..:-)
==Workshop==
- Motivating Volunteers: how to attract, care for, feed, and keep
volunteers; how to handle crises
I would personally vouch to have this talk to the entire WMKE members.
==Public speaking== If there's any opportunity to have a small public outreach event, maybe on one (or more) campus(es), I'd be delighted to appear as guest speaker on behalf of the Foundation, and either give a general introduction to Wikipedia or (if one of you would like to give the Wikipedia intro) I might give a talk about Wikimedia as an international movement and share some of our inspiring work around the world.
I think we did this with Tings visit with one of the campuses and it would be great to have a follow-up with the same campus (KU) or do it in another campus.
If your group has the time and interest in beginning to organize such events, please let me know and we can begin planning at once.
Definitely we(I) am interested in such an event and given the time-span and the schedule,I think we need to start planning and doing all the logistics early enough.Sending invites to campuses,meeting/inviting government and other companies,and general publicity all need enough time.
I thus urge my fellow volunteers to give there take/input on this and we start preparations ASAP.
Thanks once again. Regards,
Limoke Oscar,