On 16 May 2013 13:36, Bwana Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com> wrote:

@Martin Chege, what branches of Tech do you think the should focus on, from your experience?

I have a feeling if we start talking DBs many viewers will be looking forward to the commercials.

Reason I am asking this is so that we can categorise our topics, and get the right experts so to say.
This will help in getting sponsorships since we can contact the firms that deal in the topic being discussed beforehand and have them prepare something for the show.

The show would most likely meet the following requirements:

- Instructional:
Provide instructions to complete a certain task. The task should be easily identifiable with with majority of users. (No need to tell how to set up iptables).

- Explanatory:
This is where the show shall seek to explain concepts and phenomena. Again, the content should be captivating and one that is familiar. The level of detail shall also need to be considered.

- Experimental (for lack of a better word)
This is where we come up with techie scenarios that require interrogation and research. (There was a thread about Kenyan mythbusters show. This is where it would feature). The topics/items to be interrogated and should not be things we can google. This would be one of my best features of the show

- Inspirational:
Some part of the show should be dedicated to industry members to be interviewed. Just the normal stuff, you know, how long have you been in IT, what made you choose this line, challenges, what would you advise someone aspiring to get into IT, the works

- Informational:
This section is for announcing tech news. The news should really be new and interesting. Again, as much as possible, keep it local and avoid copy paste from techcrunch.

- Challenging:
The show can sponsor (in ideas, not necessarily cash) techie challenges to the education institutions. Rules of entry and participation, evaluation, etc shall be decided by skunks.

- Discovery:
The show should be able to create/discover new (and upcoming) trends, etc in the tech industry that require attention. The target could be students - new programming languages, companies - new areas to invest in IT, new IT courses being offered. The reviews should be incisive enough to generate positive action from audience.

- Bring change that can be seen and felt
If this is going to be a skunk show, it should go past the screens and living rooms. This could be the chance to get Skunkworks known.

A problem I have with the media is when they report something very interesting and after that there is no followup. I would really like a show that takes us back to review progress of something that was brought to our attention some time in the past.

Challenges:

- Ownership:
Who owns the show? Skunkworks is too amorphous right now to effectively manage such. Its not really a structured legal entity. (Better deal is to create the show and own it, screw skunks. Sucks but c'est la vie)

- Financials:
How to make cash and after making the cash, how to spend it. This will depend on the point above

- Content:

- Presentation

etc for now

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

@Calvin, why don't you do the PM work? All you need to have is the interest to do it. However, if we all sit on our posteriors waiting for someone else to start, call a meeting, setup a committee, or setup a mailing list, well, nothing will get done.

You could probably start by having a conversation with @Martin Chege to familiarize yourself with what is required. I am sure if you contacted Larry Madowo, he might have some insights. You might also want to contact everyone who has commented positively on this idea, maybe asking them what they are willing to provide...

Bottom line, do something!

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Calvin Omari <calvinebarongo@gmail.com> wrote:

@Stephen

We currently do not have any mailing list.
the last time we asked for volunteer PM and we couldn't get any.

The first step we could take is have a committee or a group of guys who would be handling various tasks to realize our goal

e.g somebody in charge of content, publicity/marketing, organizing the show etc

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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Stephen <wanjaustev@gmail.com> wrote:

My suggestion would be to create a new mailing list for the special working group interested in this idea. That is in the event that there was non or what is the best way forward? Or even better how far have we gone with this?

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On Thu 16 May 2013 10:42:28 AM EAT, Cikz wrote:

Ingenious idea I must say. Perfect step towards vision 2030.

Count me in :)

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Martin Chiteri
<martin.chiteri@gmail.com <mailto:martin.chiteri@gmail.com>> wrote:

@Bwana Lawi,

Please make it +2s now. +1s are too mainstream and they are over
anyway ....... ;-)

Martin.

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Bwana Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com
<mailto:mail2lawi@gmail.com>> wrote:

Here we go again with a round of +1's

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Stephen <wanjaustev@gmail.com
<mailto:wanjaustev@gmail.com>> wrote:

Habari Peoples of Skunkworks!

Sometime back I was privileged to be taken on a tour of
the Pan African Group digital transmission site at Limuru
and there were quite some attention-grabbing discoveries
which I hope in a way can be handy as we set up this tech
show/Channel.

The group provides a platform for any licensed broadcaster
out there who wants to reach any specific audience in
Kenya. Whereas the viewers would gain from clear pictures
the local broadcaster will benefit from reduction of
operating costs since they would not need to heavily
finance the distribution of their content as the case is
for analogue transmissions thus leaving more time and
resources to concentrate on the content.

This means that we can have a techies TV channel with the
only requirement being a licence from CCK citing we are a
broadcaster. All the Pan African Group would need from us
would be the copy of the licence and what we intend to air
even in soft copy plus the chums of course. If we want the
channel to be only viewed in Nairobi then they can do that
for us and that also applies to any other location. Na pia
ukitaka watumie Uplink

My two cents worthy,
Cheers,

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On 05/15/2013 09:46 PM, Timothy Mutugi wrote:

+1

Count me in...

Timo.

On 5/14/13, Calvin Omari<calvinebarongo@gmail.com> <mailto:calvinebarongo@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Techies,

I hope this thread didn't die a natural death. can we fast track the idea?
anybody who is in?

regards
Calvin

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Bogi Benga<bogibenda@gmail.com> <mailto:bogibenda@gmail.com> wrote:

I fully agree..The target should be anyone who is interested in
technology. Remember that TV shows are all about ratings. may be a tiny
section on hardcore stuff but 95% should be like IT for dummies. pardon
the
pun!
Imagine ordinary people on FB learning how easy their account can be
hacked or simple things as preventing stalkers from accessing their
profile. Reviewing useful websites etc

Of course I am in... :-) Unfortunately its a bit tricky at the moment to
volunteer as the lead

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Watson Kambo<wkwats@gmail.com> <mailto:wkwats@gmail.com> wrote:

I would want in on this one ... the Target should not be primarily Tech
guys since then everyone runs away and goes to watch the damn Soaps ...
how
about even reviewing the normal house hold items to add some taste to it
all ...

On 28 March 2013 16:05, Claude D'souza<claudedsouza1@gmail.com> <mailto:claudedsouza1@gmail.com> wrote:

it could have a weekly guest drawing from different backgrounds and
specialisms. i would love to go into phones and the entire rooting
route

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Joan Wanjiku<jociku@gmail.com> <mailto:jociku@gmail.com> wrote:

Its about time! Nice idea - Bogi Benda.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:30 PM, kris njoroge<krsnjo@gmail.com> <mailto:krsnjo@gmail.com>

wrote:

Question: Who is the target group? IT geeks like you guys or
everyday
users of consumer electronic goods or would it be those interested
in

tech

but not so good at it?. The best in my view would be a review of

gadgets

like phones, Cameras, DVD players, TVs howto's etc things that

everyone uses

with a dash of next gen tech in there. For more IT geeks a magazine

or a

webcast would be a better medium to use in my opinion.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Okechukwu<okechukwu@gmail.com> <mailto:okechukwu@gmail.com>

wrote:

We need a project lead on this - I would have offered myself but my
busy schedule wont allow - can we get volunteers?

./Ok3ch

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Francis Njenga<korefn@gmail.com> <mailto:korefn@gmail.com>
wrote:

@Peter we may also want to:
-> review languages
-> open source projects
-> tooling(git vs svn, netbeans vs eclipse)
-> Gaming(PC&Consoles) reviews and hacks
-> Maybe a how to for Dummies(eg disable usb port)

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Moses<mosenetk@gmail.com> <mailto:mosenetk@gmail.com>

wrote:

Good idea. As long as we try to maintain brand neutrality of
the

tech

products (within reason) we should be fine. This will also help

the

idea
mutate into a sustainable one in the long term.

Moses.

On 27 Mar 2013 17:18, "Okechukwu"<okechukwu@gmail.com> <mailto:okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:

I am up to this, and able to influence its broadcasting too -
so

all

we need is to put plan into action and move one, otherwise, I

will

take it as my personal idea and champion it :-)
Can we get a team on board and start working!

./Ok3ch

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Martin Chiteri
<martin.chiteri@gmail.com> <mailto:martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:

In response to what @Peter has said, maybe the distribution
of

the

show(s)
could be done via other mediums like DVD sets, a Website (

buni.tv <http://buni.tv>

maybe
or
something similar), perhaps a Youtube channel for starters,
ftp
downloads
......

Schools and other educational institutions can be targeted.

That

way,
you
are not implicitly required to dumb-down the material while
reaching a
substantially large audience all at once.

Martin.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Peter Karunyu <

pkarunyu@gmail.com <mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com>>

wrote:

@Bogi,
I can't remember how I came by this information, but this is

what

I
know...

For a show to have marketable appeal to the major media

houses, it

needs
to have a large enough potential marketable audience.

And therein lies the catch 22.

For a techie show to have a large audience for make
financial
sense to
the
media houses, it needs to be dumbed down. The moment you
dumb

it

down,
then
it looses its appeal to most geeks since they will consider

it,

well,
to be
polite, a waste of time watching.

For example, there is that techísh column in the Nation,

written

by a
dude
called Sam, I think. I would most certainly postulate that
he

is

forced to
simplify it.

Larry Madowo used to have a very nice techie show, where he

was

not at
liberty to dumb it down, and it was great! But, it was

positioned

at
around
mid day, who watches tv at that time really?

Unless of course, media houses are not the distribution

medium, in

which
case the aforementioned catch 22 does not exist.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Francis Njenga <

korefn@gmail.com <mailto:korefn@gmail.com>>

wrote:

It is a great i-dea. I'd be up for it.

Ideally there would have to be a direction from
some(one/organization).
I'm to assume its skunks.

Why not get the space and invite us.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:52 PM, John Matogo
<jmatogo@strathmore.edu> <mailto:jmatogo@strathmore.edu>
wrote:

Great Idea.
I would support this.

Regards.

JM

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Bogi Benga
<bogibenda@gmail.com> <mailto:bogibenda@gmail.com>

wrote:

greetings fellow Skunks,

It is evident from the list and the great IT minds we
have

in

KE
and
now with Konza city coming up, I believe that the market
is
ripe
for a
special tech TV show

This could be an avenue to discuss anything from

latest products and softwares
Geeky Gadgets
Phone specs and benchmarking
Gaming
Hacking awareness (the IEBC clip fallacy could be put to

rest

here)
Animations
Benchmarking various internet providers and Mobile

providers

the list is endless. Here is another idea, what better
way

than

to
get
our best minds to produce and host it. This can be owned

by us,

the
skunks

We can take it this idea up, conceptualise and, host it
and
sell it
to
a major station

What say you?

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