I cannot think of a better name than Wikimedians in Kenya. Dennis.
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:18:36 +0300
From: wanjaus...@gmail.com
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] From chapter to user group
Salute!
To align the
Wikimedians in Kenya to it is
current state, the social media accounts should as well be
renamed to the new name.
What has been settled on as the new
name?
.S
On 03/12/2013 02:51 PM, Oliver Stegen
wrote:
Thanks for this
cautious and tentative
initiative. I continue to be active as a Wikimedian
(cf.
http://toolserver.org/~purodha/sample/dbswithuser.php?usr=Baba_Tabita&go=Go!&uselang=en)
and I am based in Kenya,
so
that presumably makes me a … Wikimedian in Kenya
J
Yours for making
the sum of human
knowledge available to everyone on this planet (and in
my case, especially to
everyone in the Swahili-speaking communities),
BT (aka Oliver)
From:
dennis munene [mailto:deontemun...@hotmail.com]
Sent:
12 March 2013 12:13
To:
Wikimedia Kenya
Subject:
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya]
From
chapter to user group
hi,
I agree with Oscar, we were
our own let down. Being a User
Group should not in any way dwindle our
commitment. You can count me in as part
of the User Group [Wikimedians in Kenya?]
:)
dennis.
From:
oslim...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:38:04 +0300
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya]
From chapter to user group
Hi All,
I know all of us have
been absorbing and
digesting this news over the past couple
of weeks. I think its time we
now discussed and
forged a way forward. True we were our own
let down in many ways. We failed in
many ways to steer ourselves to full
registration 12 months after being
granted charter. We failed to get
legal registration locally and
we failed to manage the 1st Start up grant
for our Chapter. We failed
to resolve issues surrounding the embezzlement and
we
refused to take responsibility I think
Sue and Asaf are justified
to deny us further recognition.
So I guess its a User
group we are. As such, we
need to start to chat a way forward along
this line. Could we start taking a
new call for this user group? Remember,
Officially Wikimedia Kenya
Chapter is no more
If you would want to
join and be apart of this user group,
please let us start a conversation Only
if you are interested.
Look forward to this
new course.
Best,
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013
at 2:37 AM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Dear colleagues
in Kenya,
I would like to
let you know that (after
consultation with
the Affiliations Committee) the
Wikimedia Foundation Executive
Director, Sue
Gardner, is not extending the Board
of Trustees' provisional recognition
of
your group as Wikimedia Kenya.
We recommend you
pursue recognition as Wikimedia User
Group
instead.
The recognition
was conditional upon incorporation
within
a year, and that has not happened.
In addition, the provisional board
disintegrated (with some people
leaving the chapter entirely) and no
replacement announced, almost no
activity took place this past year,
casting
doubt on the group's sustainability
as a chapter, and certain personal
issues
added much confusion and
demoralization, which no doubt
contributed to the
inactivity.
In parallel,
the Wikimedia movement has created
new models
of affiliation, not available at the
time your group was seeking
recognition,
that we are confident would better
serve your group at this stage, and
would be
more appropriate, than the
traditional incorporated chapter
model.
Specifically,
we encourage you to seek Wikimedia
User
Group recognition (via AffCom --
e-mail aff...@lists.wikimedia.org)
right now, which will give you
almost all the benefits of chapter
recognition,
with almost none of the bureaucracy:
trademark permission will be
available to
you, and as you know, grants are
always available, even to
unincorporated
groups (and we will take steps to
improve group oversight and
governance to
minimize risk). Everything I know
about this group and about AffCom
suggests this should be a smooth
process.
Note that this
does mean that the name "Wikimedia Kenya"
should no longer be used by you or
others to refer to your group, and
specifically, that you are not to
incorporate under that name. (It is
best if incorporation under any name
is postponed until there's a better
idea
of the group's interest, capacity,
and plans. Creating a formal entity
prematurely could saddle you with
inconvenient responsibilities
without any of
the benefits.)
"Wikimedians in
Kenya",
"Friends
of Wikipedia in Kenya",
and
any number of other names you may
feel comfortable with, are good
possibilities for the name of your
group, and can be recognized by the
WMF if
you do choose to pursue User Group
recognition.
We'd like to
stress this is neither a punishment
nor a
demotion of your group; it is
actually an adjustment of what we
call the group
to match reality and to adhere to
the original terms of the
provisional
recognition. We recognize your
dedicated and valuable contributions
in
the past, and look forward to
renewed energy and accomplishments
on this new
path, as a user group, and will be
happy to support you in this in
every way we
can.
On behalf of
Sue Gardner and the Wikimedia
Foundation,
Asaf Bartov
--
Asaf
Bartov
Wikimedia
Foundation
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a world in
which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of
all
knowledge. Help us make it a
reality!
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