2011/8/6 Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> > I'm going to pull out some of the discussion points from the notes for > wider discussion. > > * there is little support from the WMF > > : This is always going to be a subjective answer but lets keep in mind > that the WMF has been sponsoring work for improving Kiwix, expanding > the Collections extension to support openZIM, and improving Article > selection. > > Each one of those plays a key role in the offline content pipeline. > Non engineering wise we've been connecting with the English, Spanish, > and Portuguese projects so that we can help release new collection. > We've also been working with eReadia and a whole host of others to > better understand the offline space. Everyone can always do more but > its important to choose what you work on and make that work well. > > I think the bigger discussion point can be is if the WMF doing enough > and if not knowing why. > > * the promised things like regular ZIM dumps sohuld be finally done by > WMF to support the spread of the software / project > > : The current XML dumps is system is fairly broken and has been a > nightmare to manage over the last couple of years. And if you think > the XML system is bad then don't even look at the HTML generation > system. Instead of pushing more work into it we've opted to go for a > much simpler route. Allow the collections infrastructure to generate > full project files. Using the existing system we make the workflow > much easier for anyone wanting openZIm files while at the same time > not making our infrastructure more complicated then it needs to be. > > * openZIM and Kiwix are hardly able to cope with the expectations due > to missing developers - not only software-wise but also concerning > documentation > > Totally agree. We've made some amazing progress on both the Kiwix > betas and Collections extension but we can still do more. I think we > have to look at the engagement that we do (LinuxTag, Wikimania, Berlin > Dev Conf, beta testing, blog posts, etc) and really assess whats > working and whats not. The chapters can do a lot here to fund > initiatives and help run them. > > * reimbursement for the server to build ZIM files > > +1 > > * house the Kiwix server in a NOC > > +1 .. I've said for a while that we should just move it over to > download.wikipedia.org > > * restructure the Offline pages on Meta wiki: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects > > Who is owning this piece? I'd love to add my ideas about how to go about > it. > Jessie Wild (cc) & myself had some ideas written in her notebook.
> > * writing proposal for a contractor on openZIM > > Looking over http://openzim.org/Roadmap its bit hard to know what's > happening post Wikimania. Whats the future look like? > > Eager to hear other peoples thoughts. > > --tomasz > > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for publishing this Manuel. Having this available while be > > remote is huge. > > > > --tomasz > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Manuel Schneider > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> here is the Etherpad documentation of the openZIM meeting at Wikimania > >> right now: > >> > >> http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/openZIM-Developer-Meeting-2011 > >> > >> > >> /Manuel > >> -- > >> 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 > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l > -- רותם שמחה
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