Forwarding to the openZIM developers mailing list for a heads up and to reach the Kiwix people there who deal with content generation and packaging a lot.
/Manuel Am 23.06.2011 11:54, schrieb Hisham Mundol: > cross posting to Offline & Wikimedia-India. > > Hi > > I'm working on the Wikimedia Foundation's initiatives in India and I'm > reaching out for help on a really exciting opportunity. Assam is a state in > the North-East of India. The Government has an interesting scheme to give > laptops to deserving students leaving secondary school (i.e., completed 10 > years of education and about 15-16 year olds.) This scheme is being managed > by an organisation called Amtron - who have issued a Tender for the > procurement of these laptops. > > There are 19,000 laptops that will be distributed in this initiative. > (These are on Ubuntu Linux - and very reasonably configured.) > > Assam has traditionally had a problem with infrastructure and Internet access > is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked the Foundation if > we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia to pre-load onto these > computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, it does need to be of > appropriate content. They'd like it to have topics of academic interest > covered (e.g., classical sciences, humanities, literature and accountancy.) > Ideally we'd like them to also have articles on India (e.g. history, > geography, culture, etc.) as well as other areas of general interest (e.g., > music, sports, etc.) Currently, everything is required in English only. > > While these laptops aren't going to necessarily be in classrooms, given that > they will be with some students, it's safe to assume that other students, > friends and relatives would access these. Given the context of Assam, I > thank we can easily assume that 10 people would access these computers. That > adds up to improving access for nearly 2,00,000 people! I'm really inspired > by the potential of this partnership because because it allows us huge scale > with efficiency in effort. > > I understand that Wikipedia for Schools is readying for release sometime in > July 2011 - and the timing couldn't be better. > > Can you help us out with > a) how you could help on adding the additional articles that this initiative > would require? (You could also sign up on the Volunteer Page) > b) how fast this can be given to Amtron? (They are looking for the inputs in > July 2011.) > c) any other ideas that you think might be useful? > > Many thanks. > > Best, > > Hisham Mundol > > Wikimedia India Programs > skype : hisham.wikimedia > gtalk : [email protected] > twitter : @mundol > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ dev-l mailing list [email protected] https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l
