@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~)
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Rahim Kara <skunkingrahim@gmail.com>
wrote:
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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