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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections

2012-03-15 Thread Limoke Oscar

Thanks Chris for Volunteering for this  and bringing to the attention. It
seems we have been avoiding this issue for quite sometime and the earlier
we settle the elections, the better.


For Starter, let us have guys interested in the Board respond to this
thread ...we may just be preparing for an election that we may not need in
the first place :-)

So we have 5 seats on the board...

Consider this My Nomination
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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?

2012-03-15 Thread Limoke Oscar

I can take that up
>

We are already working that up (Steve, Alex and I) even without this
announcement. Perhaps you are unaware of the Photo Walk we had? We even
have initiated dialogue with guys from the Museum
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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?

2012-03-15 Thread Kosgei Isaac

I can take that up

On 16/03/2012, Asaf Bartov  wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Just in case it has not been discussed here yet: Is anyone in Wikimedia
> Kenya interested in undertaking the coordination work to make this happen
> in Kenya too?
>
>Asaf
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Lodewijk 
> Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM
> Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
> To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
> 
>
>
> Hi all,
> we're well on our way getting started with Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! (feel
> free to forward)
>
> For those that don't know what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about, please
> read this blog post [
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/02/165000-photos-submitted-during-second-annual-wiki-love-monuments-photography-contest/]
> on the WMF blog and this page about how the concept works [
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Documentation#Concept];
> here's also a small introduction to the main idea of the contest and what's
> awaiting us this year.
>
> *== Wiki Loves Monuments in a nutshell ==*
> The photo competition around physical cultural heritage (buildings,
> bridges, etc.) is running in  September, organized in numerous countries
> around the world. The contest is being organized in each country
> separately, allowing to play to the local needs and wishes, but is joined
> by an umbrella contest for the whole world making it all a bit more
> exciting. Last year the contest was organized in 18 countries, and brought
> in 165.000 images by 5000 uploaders. More importantly, 4000 of these
> uploaders never uploaded anything before!
>
> *== Is your country participating? Helping hands are needed! ==*
> For 2012 already 24 countries [
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Participating_countries]
> indicated that they will definitely participate, and 16 more say they
> possibly will participate. Please take a look at the list, and see whether
> your country is already there. If you would like to help organize this
> contest in your country, please join the team that signed up for it (often
> through a chapter or a local group) or start your own organizing group if
> there is none yet! Interested countries for example include India, United
> States, Chile, Sweden and Italy.
>
> *== So, why would you want to organize a WLM in your country? ==*
> Well, of course there are the images – it is great to have good images
> available of your country. But more importantly perhaps is the amount of
> individuals that might participate! Hundreds, maybe thousands of people who
> never contributed before can now help out with what they are best at:
> making photos. They often find it fun, and might hang around a bit longer
> if we receive them well. It also is a good opportunity to get in touch with
> local cultural heritage institutions.
>
> Finally, it is a good way to try and forge a local community to organize
> events together. It is an existing framework you can use, and although
> there are no guarantees, working in an international context like this (the
> largest collaboration between chapters and other Wikimedia organizations so
> far!) helps a lot to keep people motivated and close to each other. An
> international group will be helping interested groups with the basic
> infrastructure and other things, and on a national level, you can focus on
> the organizing of your own contest, lists and communications.
>
> *== Join the team and get started! ==*
> If you want to know more, feel free to leave a message[
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012]
> or send us an email. But make sure to get started now if you're interested
> - because some parts of the work just require quite some time since
> external parties are involved. We would be delighted to help you out in any
> way possible to pull off this event.
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
> (on behalf of the international coordinating team)
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections

2012-03-15 Thread Abbas Mahmood


Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:41:07 +0300From: chriwaus...@gmail.com
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections

Hallo Wikimedians,
It's been a while but I hope we are all well. This serves as a reminder that we 
are supposed to have board elections so that we can proceed with the 
registration process of being a fully recognized chapter. Furthermore, I am 
availing myself to be part of the team of members that will overlook the 
election process.Hi Chris! Thanks for following this up -- I had totally 
forgotten about this: my apologies. Anyway, Branton and Cliff had already 
volunteered to be moderators, but you're more than welcome to join them 
nonetheless. 
 I'll be in contact with all the acting board members on how we shall see 
this activity come to pass successfully. Just for the record, on our last meet 
up we planned to have these elections on the 17th of this month. However, this 
seems to be to soon if we are to have a well planned and executed 
election.Precisely. Some of the moderator tasks that I surmise include 
(but are not limited to) finalizing the Board Elections process: 
http://wikimedia.or.ke/Board_Elections;  brainstorming the voting criteria; 
creating a nominations page; announcing the call for nominees and making any 
other necessary announcements; creating a timeline and of course overseeing the 
actual elections.
 I would like to suggest that we plan for the 31st of March since Ihub 
had offered space for WikimediaKE on the last Saturday of every month. 
+1.
 Also, do we have a time from iHub for our monthly meetings? Morning? 
Midday? Afternoon? Evening?Still unconfirmed. Let me liaise with iHub 
and get back to you.
Sincerely,Abbas.

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?

2012-03-15 Thread Asaf Bartov

Hi.

Just in case it has not been discussed here yet: Is anyone in Wikimedia
Kenya interested in undertaking the coordination work to make this happen
in Kenya too?

   Asaf

-- Forwarded message --
From: Lodewijk 
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"



Hi all,
we're well on our way getting started with Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! (feel
free to forward)

For those that don't know what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about, please
read this blog post [
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/02/165000-photos-submitted-during-second-annual-wiki-love-monuments-photography-contest/]
on the WMF blog and this page about how the concept works [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Documentation#Concept];
here's also a small introduction to the main idea of the contest and what's
awaiting us this year.

*== Wiki Loves Monuments in a nutshell ==*
The photo competition around physical cultural heritage (buildings,
bridges, etc.) is running in  September, organized in numerous countries
around the world. The contest is being organized in each country
separately, allowing to play to the local needs and wishes, but is joined
by an umbrella contest for the whole world making it all a bit more
exciting. Last year the contest was organized in 18 countries, and brought
in 165.000 images by 5000 uploaders. More importantly, 4000 of these
uploaders never uploaded anything before!

*== Is your country participating? Helping hands are needed! ==*
For 2012 already 24 countries [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Participating_countries]
indicated that they will definitely participate, and 16 more say they
possibly will participate. Please take a look at the list, and see whether
your country is already there. If you would like to help organize this
contest in your country, please join the team that signed up for it (often
through a chapter or a local group) or start your own organizing group if
there is none yet! Interested countries for example include India, United
States, Chile, Sweden and Italy.

*== So, why would you want to organize a WLM in your country? ==*
Well, of course there are the images – it is great to have good images
available of your country. But more importantly perhaps is the amount of
individuals that might participate! Hundreds, maybe thousands of people who
never contributed before can now help out with what they are best at:
making photos. They often find it fun, and might hang around a bit longer
if we receive them well. It also is a good opportunity to get in touch with
local cultural heritage institutions.

Finally, it is a good way to try and forge a local community to organize
events together. It is an existing framework you can use, and although
there are no guarantees, working in an international context like this (the
largest collaboration between chapters and other Wikimedia organizations so
far!) helps a lot to keep people motivated and close to each other. An
international group will be helping interested groups with the basic
infrastructure and other things, and on a national level, you can focus on
the organizing of your own contest, lists and communications.

*== Join the team and get started! ==*
If you want to know more, feel free to leave a message[
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012]
or send us an email. But make sure to get started now if you're interested
- because some parts of the work just require quite some time since
external parties are involved. We would be delighted to help you out in any
way possible to pull off this event.

Best,
Lodewijk
(on behalf of the international coordinating team)


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[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Meta e-mail from user "06Ivonne"

2012-03-15 Thread stephen wanjau

Hello,

Below is a forwarded message form Ivonne of Wikimedia Indonesia.

//Stephen

-- Forwarded message --
From: 06Ivonne 
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:54:04 +
Subject: Meta e-mail from user "06Ivonne"
To: Stephenwanjau 

Hi Stephen,

I'm Ivonne Kristiani from Wikimedia Indonesia. I realized that we're
going to meet in Berlin so I thought I'll contact you.
There will be a discussion of Chapter selected board of trustees and
chapters council there and I'd like to know more about it. Has
Wikimedia Kenya come to a decision of who to endorse for WMF Board of
Trustess? Have you discussed amongst yourself about the chapters
council?

Looking forward to hear from you!

Regards,
Ivonne Kristiani

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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections

2012-03-15 Thread Oliver Stegen

Thanks, Chris, for taking the initiative on that.

I'm supportive of moving election date to March 31st. That means though,
that all candidates should provide a bio by next week. Please!

Also, do we have a time from iHub for our monthly meetings? Morning? Midday?
Afternoon? Evening?

Best,

Oliver (aka BT)

 

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From: Chris Riwa [mailto:chriwaus...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 15 March 2012 16:41
To: Wikimedia Kenya Chapter.
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections

 

Hallo Wikimedians,
It's been a while but I hope we are all well. This serves as a reminder that
we are supposed to have board elections so that we can proceed with the
registration process of being a fully recognized chapter. Furthermore, I am
availing myself to be part of the team of members that will overlook the
election process. I'll be in contact with all the acting board members on
how we shall see this activity come to pass successfully. Just for the
record, on our last meet up we planned to have these elections on the 17th
of this month. However, this seems to be to soon if we are to have a well
planned and executed election. I would like to suggest that we plan for the
31st of March since Ihub had offered space for WikimediaKE on the last
Saturday of every month. 
Regards,

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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Egerton University

2012-03-15 Thread Chris Riwa

Hallo everyone,
A team of three Wiki-medians managed to attend the ICT open day at Egerton
University together with a team of three members from Mozilla. The event
was quite informative and entertaining and Stephen made the presentation.
We managed to talk to a few students who didn't hesitate to show their
interests on the activities of Wiki-medians both locally and
internationally. More so, they requested we visit for a whole day so that
we teach them how to edit the wiki and elaborate more on the activities of
Wikimedia as a whole. This was emphasized even more when a discussion
started over the lunch break regarding the decentralization of Wikimedia KE
activities from Nairobi to other parts of the country. The conclusion from
the discussion was that, if we can manage to have more editors or Wikimedia
enthusiasts in different regions of the country, we will surely have an
easier time attracting more editors as well as getting more local
contributions to the wiki's. Congrats to my fellow Wiki-Moz team for their
contributions that made this out reach not only successful but also
enjoyable and quite memorable.
Regards,

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Research Specialist and Consultant
Mobile: *+254(0)725-930-850
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   - *chriwaus...@gmail.com*
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[Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections

2012-03-15 Thread Chris Riwa

Hallo Wikimedians,
It's been a while but I hope we are all well. This serves as a reminder
that we are supposed to have board elections so that we can proceed with
the registration process of being a fully recognized chapter. Furthermore,
I am availing myself to be part of the team of members that will overlook
the election process. I'll be in contact with all the acting board members
on how we shall see this activity come to pass successfully. Just for the
record, on our last meet up we planned to have these elections on the 17th
of this month. However, this seems to be to soon if we are to have a well
planned and executed election. I would like to suggest that we plan for the
31st of March since Ihub had offered space for WikimediaKE on the last
Saturday of every month.
Regards,

-- 
*Chris A. Riwa*
Research Specialist and Consultant
Mobile: *+254(0)725-930-850
*e-mail:

   - *chriwaus...@gmail.com*
   - *otieno_ch...@yahoo.com*
   - *chriwaus...@facebook.com*

Skype: *chriwaustin*
Facebook: *facebook.com/chriwaustin*
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