Guys,
The VP team will also give me confirmation of his attendance on the launch
date. I should have an answer by Monday.
David.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
It's been a while since we last communicated. Anyway, I just wanted to
update you on the progress I have managed to make:
- Today, Grace and I visited he designer who'll create our posters and
banners. He'll send me a sample before printing them. I'll share them with
you when he gets back to me with the samples.
- The Dean has advised me to remove the tea break since, from his past
experience, tea-breaks tend to be too time-consuming (sometimes taking upto
45 mins before the attendants settle back again). His opinion was that it's
not logical for us to waste almost an hour for tea when the actual event is
only 3hours! After all, there will be a cake-cutting session inbetween which
will act as a break to the attendants.
- I also visited Google's office today and I'll let you know about
their response in due course.
-
Fahamu.org is also enthusiastic to meet with us so that we can
discuss plausible ways of collaboration. Unfortunately, Fahamu's Executive
Director will be out of the country when Ting is in the country. We agreed
to hold the meeting at a later date, nonetheless (that is, when the ED will
be back in Kenya). We are expecting a representative from Fahamu at the
launch.
The Chairman is booked for the following days:
Sunday, Monday 9/10th Jan 2011 - Press interviews. I am yet to receive
confirmation from Julie Gichuru and Jeff Koinange. If you guys have any
contacts from KTN or any other media outlet, kindly let me know so that we
could arrange for other interviews, if possible.
Tuesday, Wednesday - Still not yet booked. I hope that we'll manage to get
confirmations from various universities so that Ting could give talks on
these dates. Google might also schedule a meeting on one of these afternoons
as well.
Thursday - Launch at Strathmore Auditorium
Friday - We shall accompany Ting to Carolina for Kibera. Ting is the one
who connected me to CFK. For more info about CFK, check:
http://cfk.unc.edu/index.php
Cheers,
Abbas.
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