+1 Any meetings of our group on the horizon? Either RL or virtual/online?
With continued hope and best wishes for Wikimedia in East Africa, BT > -----Original Message----- > From: Samuel Klein [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 18 March 2013 20:57 > To: The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter. > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2014: > Officialbid list > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Limoke Oscar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I don't think it's a shame, and shouldn't be a pain: organizing a bid is > a > > lot of work, but is almost purely on-wiki, and can be done by one or two > > > > Anyhow, we should all be happy for our Tanzanian colleagues for having > found > > the initiative and energy to do this. It's not a competition. :) > > Yes. You might even try working with them to organize a shared > regional event, if their bid for Wikimania itself doesn't work out. > They clearly have a lot of energy for bringing people and speakers > together around Wikimedia topics. > > > Like I said in my more formal letter, you must not look upon the > expiration > > of the provisional recognition as a blow or as a failure -- it was > merely a > > deadline expiring, for a formal process that doesn't actually matter as > much > > as it used to, because we now have these new affiliation models, which > would > > have been more suitable in the first place, had they existed at the > time. > > Yes. And once you have some projects underway, if they start to grow, > you may always reapply to become a Chapter. > > SJ > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaKE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
