If you were a woman I would propose to you... but on second thought, I would not...you are too generous and we all know that is not favorable in all situations.

Very funny David. lol. Aki's ideas are good. People should share On 3 June 2010 12:00, <skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:47:09 +0300 From: David Mugo <raidarmax@gmail.com> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] KICT Board Grants and sharing ideas. Message-ID: <AANLkTilsigHjid9rLIxPMTTrhlNXqWnBzpNWhJjjBmaf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Aki,

If you were a woman I would propose to you... but on second thought, I would not...you are too generous and we all know that is not favorable in all situations. Nice ideas, especially the GPS mapping. Question, as a developer pool and IT pros, I think we should form something like a developer group, probably non-profit, make it dedicated to developing such ideas with or without grants.

The thing is there is so much to do and when projects get to a certain point, they get easy to run.

Am thinking its time we did this.

David.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:10 AM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:

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For those who have read the KICTB brief and are going for it, excellent move. For those who are skilled and may not have some ideas to work with, I share these ideas as I cannot focus on them due to personal constraints . Though I've not seen the RFP application forms, if anyone has already done so, they could help others get the process going incase there are clarifications needed. ( Deadline for submitting complete application forms is July 19, 2010. )

Ladies, Gents. This thread is to share those ideas that you may not have time to start or complete but someone else on the list can take up and benefit from. Your ideas may also be a wish list that you want to see happen and could lead to better ideas. However time is short for those interested, we have to ensure that the KICTB grant opportunity is not lost.

IDEAS SUMMARY LIST ( incase they are useful to you ) :

1) Archive and Digitization of the Kenya National Museums : Create an online archive and searchable system. Each item needs to be scanned into image format with a water mark. The archives will provide a low image resolution for thumbnails preview and caption information about each asset. The assets will restrict high resolution images to paid categories. The archive database will be fully searchable by tags in caption like description, date, category etc. The system developed should be user friendly so that anyone who is the archive administrator can upload, edit and save content.

2) Historical Kenya : The National Archives and Kenya's journey over time. We have one of the greatest discoveries right in our backyard. Then after there is not much public information easily available nor informative. Do we have cave paintings? Do we have BC/AD timelines and what transpired? What impact did Shaka Zulu have on Kenya? Why is it that some local traditional dancers dress are simlar to those of the Zulu traditional dancers? This would be an interesting timeline project. An online system similar to 1) above.

3) A portal Mapping of all National Parks with GPS : Everyone knows how difficult it is to navigate in such areas. An old idea but with edge/grps. A site portal with single webcam feed of each possible location and integration over mobile devices. Example : Each year thousands of wildbeasts cross the mara, yet no one can predict the excat time. This year the rivers are full, crocodiles in plenty but also plenty of grass. So will they cross in larger or smaller numbers? Having a webcam feed that DOES NOT capture the event live but only streams small frames. Afterall you want people to visit and see the event in realtime, not on a desktop.

4) Nepad portal : This was suggested a while back but did anyone ever get it going?

Rgds,

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