[Wikimedia Kenya] Visiting Kenya after Wikimania 2011

Fri Jul 22 16:26:26 UTC 2011

So just keeping track so far. Asaf will be in Kenya for 4 days one of which he'll be in Mombasa so when planning for Nairobi and Nakuru, we should take into account that we have 3 days.

So far, we are looking: Strathmore, UoN, Nairobits, Egerton, Daystar, USIU,  government institutions and Google.

Egerton may take an entire day so if all these institution will confirm, then I think we are full...!

Alex.

On Fri Jul 22nd, 2011 9:04 AM PDT stephen wanjau wrote:

>I will talk to the Egerton contact and I will keep you posted on the
>progress.
>
>Cheers
>Stephen W. Wanjau
>
>On Jul 22, 2011 7:01 PM, "stephen wanjau" <wanjaustev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, I have the two letters that you forwarded, unless there are others.
>>
>> I will go ahead to contact the guy at Egerton.
>>
>> As for USIU and Daystar, I do not have any contacts that we could use but
>if
>> somebody is available, paying these campuses a pre-visit to have meeting
>> permits and appointments from the respective dean of students sounds
>> better.
>>
>> It's to our advantage that the two campuses ,USIU and Daystar are all
>> located within NBO.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Stephen W. Wanjau
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2011 6:51 PM, "Abbas Mahmood" <abbasjnr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Stephen,
>>> I think you should go ahead and contact Egerton. Since most Universities
>> will either be closed or doing exams, we don't have a choice but follow up
>> on the few that are willing to host us. Do you need the letter, or do you
>> have it already? And do you have any USIU contacts? Or Daystar?
>>> ThanksAbbas.
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:43:48 +0300
>>> From: wanjaustev at gmail.com
>>> To: wikimediake at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Visiting Kenya after Wikimania 2011
>>>
>>> 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 at 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 at gmail.com
>>>>>> To: wikimediake at 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 at 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.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Limoke Oscar,
>>>>>> mayenge.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>>>> Freelancer,
>>>>>> GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
>>>>>>
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