Okay, I'm still generally willing to go to Mombasa as well. What's the trip
there like? How long by public transportation? What else can we do in
Mombasa, do you think? How likely is it we can arrange an event there?
Thanks,
Asaf
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Abbas,
I had talked about Camara in a different thread; And I didn't want to
respond to talk about it here again so as to minimize confusion; but you
raised an issue that I must respond to:
I know of Camara because their hub was located in my former high school in
Mombasa. AFAIK, they initially had an (empty) office in Nairobi, since most
of them insisted on staying in Mombasa. [citation needed]
Your proposed visit will be in August, and that will be Ramadan. Mombasa,
being mostly Islamic, means that during that month people work less. What
I'm trying to say here is that since the beginning, Camara folks did not
want to come to Nairobi, and I wouldn't expect them to agree to travel
during Ramadhan.
I think we stand a better chance if we go to Mombasa. I am aware that there
is relatively low or no Wikimedia activity in Mombasa. But that is the very
essence of our chapter: to increase awareness and participation of Wikimedia
in Kenya. If we focus only on Nairobi, then I honestly feel we are failing
in our mission. Maybe all these other folks need is a push or a spark.
Abbas.
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From: abartov(a)wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:04:08 -0700
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Khan Academy
Excellent idea, Abbas, and thank you, Jessie, for these links.
Note that Camara is represented in Kenya, in Mombasa:
http://kenya.camara.ie/
Perhaps WMKE can help Camara expand the Kenya operation? Perhaps,
likewise, Camara can support and help WMKE? Please take some time to look
into this.
Could we maybe reach out to them and see if we can get them to meet us in
Nairobi during my upcoming visit?
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all -
yes, Khan is something that is widely distributed in the same open
education resources community that our Offline Wikipedia is very popular in!
There are some offline projects that already package it together with our
resources along with others, including Camara[1] and the RACHEL education
portal.
It would be awesome to figure out ways to add links (for example, at the
top of a page in italics) to specific articles within the offline Wikipedia
that sync to a complementary video lesson, imho :)
Jessie
[1]
http://camara.ie/web/
[2]
http://rachel.worldpossible.org/
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21 AM, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Yep , I definately endorse this idea because it is in appraisal of our
objectives as a chapter.
Cheers
Stephen W. Wanjau
On Jul 13, 2011 7:41 PM, "Limoke Oscar" <oslimoke(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have found its lessons very useful of it.And I
would suggest we
incorporate the meetup with Asaf's meetup.
I definitely support the idea
On 7/13/11, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> Has anyone of you guys heard of Khan Academy(www.khanacademy.org)? Khan
> Academy is a multiple-award winning non-profit organization/website that
has
> free collections of educational videos
ranging from Math, Calculus,
Algebra,
> Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and man more.
> I was thinking of carrying out an offline project with Khan where we'd
> download and distribute these videos to educational institutions
probably
> during September. If you guys are interested,
I'll arrange a meetup
where we
could
discuss the way forward.
Cheers,Abbas.
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