Oliver,

thanks for the reply. No, I don't think we should delay the elections. I just wanted to clarify the details re the Chapters Agreement.

Thanks,
Abbas.

From: info@oliverstegen.net
To: abbasjnr@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:45:32 +0300

Hi Abbas,

 

Thanks for clarification. I had misunderstood the deadline for the signing of the Chapter’s Agreement. Would you rather that WMKE not rush the board election but take more time? If nobody steps forward to moderate the election and if no candidates for the five positions actually apply (or get nominated?) we won’t be able to hold it on March 17 anyway … Sorry if I stepped on anyone’s toes. I just thought it better to communicate to the entire mailing list what our little group of six had discussed on Saturday.

 

Best wishes,

Oliver

 

From: Abbas Mahmood [mailto:abbasjnr@hotmail.com]
Sent: 28 February 2012 20:59
To: info@oliverstegen.net
Subject: RE: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk

 

Hi Oliver,

I'm not sure which documents you are referring to that need to be signed and returned to the WMF. However, I presume that it's the Chapters Agreement. If that's the case, then:

1) We (or to be precise, I) have not yet received any documentation from the Foundation that requires our signing.

2) According to the Board Resolution, we have a time period of one year to sign that Agreement.

--Abbas.

From: info@oliverstegen.net
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:31:32 +0300
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk

Hi WMKE friends and fellows,

 

We (= Steve, Oscar, Alex, Chris, Morine and yours truly) had a great photo walk today, starting from the New Tom Mboya Monument on Moi Avenue and then crossing Haile Selassie to the Nairobi Railway Museum (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_Railway_Museum - and notice that the article doesn’t have a picture yet, which should change soon!). From there, we went back to Koinange St and ended our walk at the Savannah Coffee Lounge on Loita St where Wikimedia Kenya had its first face-to-face meeting in July 2010 – so, many historical memories! J

 

I’m looking forward to seeing a number of photos uploaded onto Commons (Steve, are you going to go through those 400+ pictures, select the best of each building and post them in the Category:Nairobi?).

 

At Savannah, there was also some talk of stream-lining the information of this mailing list with the two WMKE websites on Meta and @co.ke – currently, some info isn’t available *anywhere* - bother!

 

Finally, we also discussed the upcoming board elections and suggested that these take place on March 17th (anything else would be too late – we need to send some documents to WMF with signatures of board members, so there! – and the next two weekends are already booked with outreaches to Mombasa and Egerton). So, within the next 8 days, candidates to the 5 board positions (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Project / Logistics Officer) need to write up their profiles. These should be sent to whoever will be in charge of the elections … another question which has to be solved soonest!

 

So, let’s get cracking so that we don’t lose our newly won chapterhood!

Yours for making the sum of all human knowledge available to every single fellow inhabitant of our planet,

Oliver (aka BT)

 

From: stephen wanjau [mailto:wanjaustev@gmail.com]
Sent: 24 February 2012 20:34
To: info@oliverstegen.net
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk

 

Hello,

So far only six people have filled in their names at the etherpad.

We hope to meet at the Tom Mboya monument, along Tom Mboya Street adjacent to Kenya National Archives at 10:00am where we shall decide which route to take as per the goals here.

Basic requirements:

  • Camera (not compulsory!)
  • Walk/Vehicle to move around/ public transport/ autos are also okay.
  • Data cable/ card reader for transfer of photos.
  • Disable on-image timestamps or other data that appears over-top of images.
  • Please empty the memory card.

Other activities:

  • Encourage new people from outside the community to join.
  • This is a team event. 

Do's:

  • Bring plenty of water.
  • Do not worry about the angles/ nitty gritties of the photo or your camera skills!
  • Try and take a clear shot of the building.
  • Note down the list of places, names of buildings that you photograph.
  • If you learn something new about a landmark/ statue/ building, do pass on the info. It would be very useful to update in the wiki pages.
  • If you want to leave early, make sure you transfer your pictures to team volunteer.

Do not:

  • Do not take pictures of people - To maintain a level of decency and also not to breach privacy
  • Remember that all photos will be used for Wikipedia, hence do not include personal photos.
  • Personal photos will not be considered for selection.
  • Do not waste time, respect the time limit.
  • Do not go into people's homes to photograph. All photos to be buildings/ statues/ landmarks of Nairobi.
  • Do not take photos where it is prohibited to do so.

Just in case something is not clear, please feel free to ask.
regards,
Stephen.
<snip>
 


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