Hi Asaf,
It would be great to have you around.I personally think your visit and
talks will go along way in revitalizing WMKE like Tings visit did.
About your schedule,
==Logistics==
I will be arriving around Aug 14th or 15th, and leaving around Aug 19th or
20th. I will definitely be in Nairobi, and possibly also visit Mombasa.
==Meetup==
I'd like to meet as many Wikimedia Kenya members (non-members also welcome!)
as possible. If there's a lot of interest in Mombasa, I'll try to have a
meetup and workshop there too. All we need for the meetup is a room large
enough to contain all who would want to come, and reasonably quiet so we can
hear ourselves talking.
I would suggest we visit one of the campuses in Nairobi and
combine
this aspect with the outreach aspect.You/we will have the opportuinity
to recruit and spur interest in Campus.Since in JKUAT(my campus) wew
would probably be having our exams,I would suggest either
Strathmore,KU and Nairobi University.
Wifi and a projector would be a plus,we as WMKE have 2projectors so
this solved..:-)
==Workshop==
1. Motivating Volunteers: how to attract, care for,
feed, and keep
volunteers; how to handle crises
I would personally vouch to have this talk to the
entire WMKE members.
==Public speaking==
If there's any opportunity to have a small public outreach event, maybe on
one (or more) campus(es), I'd be delighted to appear as guest speaker on
behalf of the Foundation, and either give a general introduction to
Wikipedia or (if one of you would like to give the Wikipedia intro) I might
give a talk about Wikimedia as an international movement and share some of
our inspiring work around the world.
I think we did this with Tings visit with one of the campuses and it
would be great to have a follow-up with the same campus (KU) or do it
in another campus.
If your group has the time and interest in beginning to organize such
events, please let me know and we can begin planning at once.
Definitely we(I) am
interested in such an event and given the
time-span and the schedule,I think we need to start planning and doing
all the logistics early enough.Sending invites to
campuses,meeting/inviting government and other companies,and general
publicity all need enough time.
I thus urge my fellow volunteers to give there take/input on this and
we start preparations ASAP.
Thanks once again.
Regards,
Limoke Oscar,