I am more than a month late to comment, but I will also definitely support an
idea such as this. This was actually one of the ideas we discussed (briefly) at
our workshop in August last year. I believe that we can also learn a lot from
the people in Kenya (such as Abbas and Oscar) regarding how to approach such a
project?
Kind regards
Lourie
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From: Kerryn McKay <kerryn(a)africancommons.org>
To: David Richfield <davidrichfield(a)gmail.com>om>; Jessie Wild
<jwild(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 8:36:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Education opportunity in South Africa
Hi all
Coming into the thread slightly later as I've been offline most of the weekend.
This sounds interesting. Jessie, can you give us an indication of why Sangari
SA contacted you in particular? Did they have a particular request or proposal
that they were putting to you in this regard?
I agree with David that even if it's a for-profit this shouldn't make too much
of a difference if we find that their mandate and objectives for this particular
project are aligned with the Wikimedia ZA chapter's objectives. Although I
don't know much about Sangari SA, Hilton Theunissen is actually on the board of
our organisation, The African Commons Project and he has always been a staunch
open source guy. But again, it might help to understand what Sangari's proposed
involvement would be so that we can see where, how and if the Chapter could fit
in with the initiative.
Also, the Chapter's involvement need not necessarily be on a volunteer basis
should we wish to help with training and outreach, as I know that WMF have funds
available and we could always put a small proposal together to help with this,
should this be our focus.
Regards
Kerryn
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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:35 PM, David Richfield <davidrichfield(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks Kieran: this is a very interesting perspective on the situation, and one
that I wasn't aware of.
I would be perfectly happy to work with a profit-making
organisation to help
them provide Wikipedia for Schools to a wider audience, as long as their aims
are compatible with ours, but I would never knowingly support an organisation
that is inimical towards software freedom, so I'll wait to hear a bit more
before committing my time to this.
Kind regards,
David
On 13 May 2011 9:44 PM, "Jessie Wild" <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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