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Workshop:
Improving wsflibrary.org, preserving WSF documents
and founding a proactive public Library
Date: 3 - 5 December, 2007
Venue: The Kenya School of Monetary Studies(KSMS), Thika Rd, Nairobi
Contents |
MONDAY 3 DECEMBER - Improving Our Website
08.30 - 10.30 Getting started - Wiki Editing
(Or how to memorize the wiki commands without forgetting the names of your children and grandchildren)
Basic Wiki editing
Participants finish their personal User Pages
Creating a Knowledge Base from the WSF. Presentation of the Manual, by Esther Obachi
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.00 A deeper look at the MediaWiki
Exploring the MediaWiki, by KENET
Why our site is not exactly like Wikipedia, by Mikael Böök
12.00 - 13.00 Tagging the WSF's Activities
(The tags are the 21 'actionable themes')
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 Tagging the WSF's Activities, contd.
After work
17.00 - 19.00 Leisure time
19.00 Dinner
TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER - Building a WSF collection
08.30 - 10.30 The Physical documents
The Jo Labadie Collection on Radical History, by Julie Herrada, the curator
The physical documents from the Nairobi WSF, presentation by Rosemary Gitachu
Examination of the material collected during the Nairobi WSF
Brainstorming about the collection (discussion)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 "The Physical documents", contd.
How to link the physical documents to our website? (discussion)
Improving the listing of the documents on www.wsflibrary.org (work on site)
Summary and Proposals for the future
Documenting our discussion (work)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Tax Justice
The Tax Justice Network and TJN Africa, by Alvin Mosioma
Discussion
16.15- 17 Coffee and Summary/Evaluation of the day
After work
17.00 - 19.00 Leisure time
19.00 Dinner
WEDNESDAY 5 DECEMBER - A proactive public library
08.30 - 10.30 Website makeover
Work on site
Summary and proposals for the future
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Founding a proactive public library
Round table discussion
Participants from the city administration, the Hoperaisers of Korogocho, from KNLS, the workshop participants
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 The Way Forward
15.00 The launching of the website
By her excellency, the Ambassador of Finland
Cocktails
