Yah, I thought about that too. Infact, I had a brief chat with Isaac regarding it earlier today.
I was under the impression that Egerton's a bit far. Remember the last time we did a talk there, it took us the entire day. Though I must say, I love Egerton's enthusiasim towards open source stuff and it would be great to lay a foundation for future Wikimedia activities in Nakuru. If guys plus Asaf ofcourse are willing to go here it would be awesome. So what about it guys?
On Fri Jul 22nd, 2011 8:43 AM PDT stephen wanjau wrote:
Hello guys,
Incase time and resources allow,There is a contact at Egerton University, ( Alex, remember the guys who organized the Mozilla talk?).I had a chat with their Computer Students club chairman and he was willing we give them a talk regarding Wikimedia.
Infact he told me the talk can be conducted at the town campus in Nakuru town. If that's ok please let me know so that I can furnish him with the relevant material (letters,posters e.t.c.) and more information.
Cheers Stephen W. Wanjau
On Jul 22, 2011 6:02 PM, "Alex Wafula" xelawafs@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey Abbas,
I've already got intouch with someone from UoN and I'm waiting for an
official confirmation from them.
I've also forwarded the letter from Wikimedia to help things move on
faster.
Cheers, Alex.
On Fri Jul 22nd, 2011 7:36 AM PDT Abbas Mahmood wrote:
Thanks Oscar for notifying us. Does anyone have contacts at USIU? We could approach them as well. Also, Alex, have you contacted UoN? I have a contact there that might be
able to contact UoN's Dean.
BTW, I have an official introduction letter from Wikimedia, so in case any
one of you needs it to approach various institutions, please do contact me and i will forward the letter to you beforehand.
Abbas.
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.
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