We're holding a Hackathon on August 13-18. right after Wikimania, in Potsdam, 
New York (about 2.5 hours drive from Montreal).  The focus is on writing code 
to help produce offline collections of Wikipedia content along with other 
medical & educational materials, mostly for use in libraries, schools and 
clinics.  The main wiki page can be found at http://OFF.NETWORK.  We can 
probably help you with transportation from Montreal, and accommodation in 
Potsdam if you need it.
Some of the attendees will be there from familiar offline groups such as Kiwix 
mainly to write code.  Others focus on end-use and are from the 
non-profit/educational community, such as Computers for Kids, 
Internet-in-a-box, KA Lite.  These people will want to ensure that the 
technical needs of the groups can be met, and that resources are shared.  You 
can see the sort of thing Internet-in-a-Box does in this recent article on 
opensource.com: 
https://opensource.com/article/17/5/internet-in-a-box-raspberry-pi
If you're interested in attending, it's probably best to contact me directly.  
Thanks!
Martin A. Walker (walkerma on Wikipedia)
Professor of Chemistry, SUNY Potsdam
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>


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