After a long flight via Istanbul, I finally landed to Nairobi well after midnight. Straight to the hotel downtown and tried to get some sleep.
Waking up next day, I had the pleasure to catch up with Dietrich Ayala (my fellow tripster), Alex Wafula and the rest of his team, shortly before hoping in a bus and head 4 hours North from Nairobi to give a talk about Firefox 4 and Mozilla to Egerton University at Njoro.
The atmosphere there was great and we had the chance to amaze and inform people about Firefox 4 
Dietrich did an excellent job presenting all the new cool feature of Firefox and Alex closed the presentation with a brief introduction of Mozilla Kenya community.
Overall first day was exhausting in terms of travelling (~8 hours in a bus crossing Kenya, but with 3G in the middle of nowhere!) but it was rewarding to say the least, having the chance to be with more than 100 people talking about Firefox 4 
We went to sleep early because Day 2 would be Firefox 4 Party day!
Some meetings we had early morning where moved so we headed to iHub from early morning. iHub is an awesome hackerspace/co-working place in Nairobi and certainly a place to be if you are a geek traveling in Kenya Cool place, internet, and great people to meet!
That was the venue of our party so we stayed there to help with the preparations, although there were not many things to do as Alex and Linnet (our local Mozilla stars) had took care of almost everything! The place gradually got dressed up in Firefox colors and restructured so it could fit our needs. Projectors, invite list, tables, food were in place so we are about to start:
Although we were expecting 100 people to show up, we ended up having more than 200 people! Linnet was the MC for the night, while Alex was taking care that everything was in place Big team doing great stuff! We started with a presentation of the new Mozilla Kenya Website and then moved into a summary of Mozilla Kenya activities. Time for Dietrich and me to give our Firefox 4 and generic Mozilla talk! The room was full and we had the chance to amaze once again everyone that didn’t know things about Firefox 4. Short Q&A followed and then we split up into groups spending the rest of the night answering questions and getting feedback for Firefox 4. (we also had some awesome cake! at least everyone had some except from me 
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Overall, the event was a total success, engaging people around Mozilla Kenya community. Congratulations once again to the Mozilla Kenya team! They certainly set the bar high for all the communities around the world! 
You can find the photos from first two days here.
Stay tuned for updates and photos for the upcoming days
#1 by Michael Adeyeye on April 16, 2011 - 6:21 pm
Hi Pierros,
It’s interesting seeing you again in Africa. Keep up the good work. I am glad we are having fascinating events like the above in Africa. We should talk about the email I sent you some days ago.
Keep well.
#2 by Pierros Papadeas on April 16, 2011 - 6:35 pm
I will reply on your mail asap Michael!
Hope to see ya soon on an event like this!
#3 by Beth on April 18, 2011 - 2:06 am
That was an awesome event…love the photoz
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#4 by jeffre olwande on April 19, 2011 - 8:36 pm
great tour pierros it was great to interact with you, hope to see you soon
#5 by Moffat Ngacha on May 2, 2011 - 1:52 pm
It was great having you guys at Egerton University.keep up the good work. a great kudos to Dietrich Ayalla,Alex Wafula n you.
#6 by stephen on May 18, 2011 - 1:07 pm
it was a nice and effective trip. “..3G in the middle of nowhere..” I like that.
#7 by Hardgainerzone on October 21, 2011 - 9:06 am
Personally I have never heard about this event before so it was really interesting to read it and to know something attractive and new.
#8 by Medical Billing Job on October 21, 2011 - 11:47 am
That was great experience for this kenyan guyz.
#9 by sylvia on November 4, 2011 - 11:30 am
Your should visit more often
#10 by Alex on November 17, 2011 - 4:23 am
Kenya! That is awesome, I can’t wait till I can go! (I was in Istanbul a couple of weeks ago, didn’t know there are flights to Nairobi.)
#11 by Kevin on April 18, 2012 - 6:49 am
Interesting to see the Firefox setup. I’m curious where/how they are able to achieve 3G Internet in the middle of nowhere. I thought a thorough infrastructure was needed for this type of communication? Maybe it’s satellite based, but I didn’t think those speeds were possible.