Hi guys,

Please find below an email I received from Steven Walling, Wikimedia Foundation's defacto anniversary contact. If by any chance any of you would want to join me in the IRC chat, do let me know and I'll give you the details on how to log in to the chat.

Regards Abbas.

From: swalling@wikimedia.org To: abbasjnr@hotmail.com Subject: 10th anniversary event in Nairobi Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:54:55 -0800

Hi Abbas,

I hope things are well in Kenya. I did read your message about the schools project, it sounds interesting but I am extremely busy. We should talk about how it's going more later.

I just wanted to update you about where the Foundation is at with the tenth anniversary organizing, and ask a couple questions about the Nairobi event. Feel free to forward this to anyone in the Kenyan/ Swahili community.

The Foundation is committed to doing a couple things now:

1. Publicity for events. We will almost certainly be creating site-

wide banners that speak about the anniversary, and will likely direct readers to the anniversary wiki with the list of events. This is why it's imperative that any events in Kenya have complete and interesting descriptions, links to further information, and anything else you can think of to add. If you'd like some examples, I'd take a look at the Bristol and Dhaka events. We will also be working with the press, so if you have a press contact we may send appropriate inquiries to that would be good for me to have. We will also be creating a basic press kit.

2. Merchandise. As you can see on the Design and Design/Merchandise

pages of ten.wikipedia.org, we've created both designs that can be easily localized for you to use, and we are also going to have kits of t-shirts, stickers and buttons to ship to you for free if you're holding an event or two. To be able to do this, I need to have the event listed with details about it on tenwiki, as well as a reliable name/address to ship the packages to in Kenya.

If you could do those things, we will be ready to ship merchandise to you and provide more publicity for all the anniversary events in the next two weeks. Any questions?

Also, I'll be hosting an IRC chat in #wikimedia-office on December 1 at 16:00-17:00 UTC about the anniversary planning. It would be awesome if you could be there.

Steven Walling Wikimedia Foundation Fellow (wikimediafoundation.org)