@wesley what was your argument with relation to registering? and i'm backing you all the way so bring out the big guns! @all i'm looking at this from a perspective of professional / expansion. Consider the following. 1. In the near future, there is to be a decision related to IT which requires a body to work with in Kenya. Skunkworks is a great idea however it needs to be registered. The registration process takes X amount of time and by then, we've already been hijacked by someone else. 2. Skunkworks holds some of the greatest minds in Kenya that i can think of. We are a conglomerate of the change we perceive yet choose to do nothing about it. Our ideas can alter the face of our country, NAY! our Region as a whole and yet, we won't be heard. And why not? because we're just a crowd right now. a well organized one at that but still just a crowd. 3. If you have an apple ( the fruit ) and call it an apple, will it sell more if you called it something else like Juicy Wild Apple? The branding situation holds a great deal of promise, there can be more we can do with Kenyan IT and Information as a whole, i've ranted about something similar in the past when the replicator was a suggestion i had. Granted, we don't have the facilities to work on it but we have the brains. I got some people online who btw are actually working toward helping with it whether it works or not. Let's not sit back and watch the world pass by. I'm going to fight this one through and lets get it done. I want to know why we shouldn't register, i've also requested legal counsel from a few people who should be in a position to give me distinct categories of what we can register under. Responses people. wesley kirinya wrote:
Rahim,
That was one of the first things I suggested when I joined Skunkworks 3-4 years back. A few supported, most didn't coz skunks were paranoid that Skunkworks would turn into some elite society of people.
2 Years back I made same suggestion, the earth or rather the list didn't seem moved. Someone else circa that time made same suggestion but ...
I believe the guys who didn't want a formal skunksworks had a point (and probably their point still holds). So a middle ground was reached whereby the list would be a place to meet and guys who want to work on something or form something formal would do it on the side, AKA Mpango Wa Kando! So, I guess Skunk(ette)s are the original creators of Mpango Wa Kando, too bad we are too techie and forgot to patent that!
8~)
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From: Rahim Kara <skunkingrahim@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Skunkworks Kenya To: "Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 9:50 AM
@Clement Well, these are agencies and Associations. As a Tech Forum, is there any other way of being registered sort of as a recognizable body?
Clement Ongera wrote:
@Rahim An official body...meaning the likes of TESPOK, KIF, KEMSA etc etc? I believe its possible but it will take time...lots of time. We will need a structure of some sort, officials, CASH, Office..... etc etc... I'd rather it be as it is, we do things our 'legal' way.
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