Hi Everyone -

I am assembling a camera bag and will ship tomorrow to David Mugo (since he is in Chicago until Monday).

Since I have a background in location sound recording, I want the chapter to record the best audio possible along with the best video possible -- therefore I will be including a delicate microphone of my own, so please be careful with it! ( I know you will ).

Tomorrow i'll be writing up a list of guidelines and things --

I will keep everyone posted!

Victor

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:30:27 -0700 From: Victor Grigas vgrigas@wikimedia.org To: wikimediake WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org, David Mugo raidarmax@gmail.com, hodi@wikimedia.or.ke, Alex Wafula xelawafs@gmail.com, Limoke Oscar oslimoke@gmail.com, Abbas Mahmoud abbasjnr@hotmail.com Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Unfortunate Change of Plan Message-ID: < CAO4_ZTGOD6jHCZ7y1R4G4PedTvYz4k7SSpCz0gyBwTqSU21HgQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hello Wikimedia Kenya,

So a week ago at Wikimania, my team's goal was to interview as many Wikipedians as possible on video, and I can't believe it but we actually did it. We recorded around 100 on-camera interviews from editors from all over the world. Now we have to begin the post-production process. (It was good to meet a few of you in person too).

I regret to say that since Wikimania, AGAIN my priorities have to shift from coming to Kenya -- to editing this video. There is a lot of footage to go through and only so much time to get it done correctly if it is going to play by the fundraiser.

That said, I feel I owe the Kenyan chapter some kind of a favor for all your patience. What I have is a Canon XA-10 professional camcorder< http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/camcorders/professional_camc...

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that

I won't be using while I'm editing the Wikimania interview footage. I could loan it to the chapter for some time and let you decide how best to use it. It's a very compact, high-quality camera that is very easy to learn to use. It records on high-speed SD cards and can record for hours and hours at a time. I would be happy to help with any questions you may have about operating it or editing / manipulating footage from it. Please let me know if the chapter could use a camera like this for some time, and I will ship it immediately.

I'd like to thank you for all your patience with me, I don't want to promise anything I can't deliver on - but I can say that I want to talk to all of you and hope I can be of service soon. Also if there is anything else I can do while I'm editing footage, please let me know.

Victor Grigas

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*Victor Grigas* Storyteller Wikimedia Foundation vgrigas@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/