On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 11:47 AM James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote:
> With respect to Jorge's questions: > > 1) All devices are 128 Gb now > 128 GByte not Gbit but yeah ((: > 2) They ship with MDWiki and en Wikipedia at least. > 3) Everyone who has received a device has also agreed to fill in a > questionnaire at some point. Havn't gotten around to that bit yet. > 4) I also collect what people want it for when they reach out. Answers > vary from home schooling, to living on a boat, to time capsule, to > hurricaine backup, to medical clinics in the developing world, to local > libraries. > 5) Most are going to the US but also some to Europe, Canada, and > Australia. The rare device to the DRC, East Timor, and India. > *James' work here is in fact h-e-r-o-i-c.* *Seeding community action planet-wide.* *Helping people everywhere, literally on a shoe-string.* And all those who've supported him here to make this possible! (Tim Moody especially, but also many others unnamed, QA'ing and improving Internet-in-a-Box learning / software / integration / documentation every day!) James > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 11:15 AM <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Send Offline-l mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/offline-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [email protected] >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Offline-l digest..." >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Internet-in-a-Box (Jorge Vargas) >> 2. Re: Internet-in-a-Box (Adam Holt) >> 3. Re: Internet-in-a-Box (Samuel Klein) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 10:36:08 -0400 >> From: Jorge Vargas <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box >> To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> < >> caf9zsxpept6bjnduf3ni95jks6sy3+0daz7nh_exprehs2+...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >> boundary="000000000000ab5fcf05e57f635c" >> >> Hi James! So lovely to hear from you. >> >> Out of curiosity, can you share more about what latest build of the >> internet in a box at estoy shipping? Where are they going and how did they >> reached out? What content are you shipping them with and what memory >> capacity do you have? >> >> Super interesting stuff!! Are you planning to get any feedback from these >> users once they start testing and suing the devices? That would also be >> really cool learning. >> >> Hug, >> Jorge >> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this >> > month, having shipped 24 devices so far. >> > >> > As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD >> each >> > so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this will >> make it >> > easier for others to get into distribution. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > James Heilman >> > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Offline-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > >> -- >> *Jorge Vargas* (he/him) >> Director of Partnerships >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> M: (+1) 415.404.9536 >> I work from Miami, USA. My time zone is UTC/GMT -4/-5. >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... >> Name: not available >> Type: text/html >> Size: 3222 bytes >> Desc: not available >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 11:58:05 -0400 >> From: Adam Holt <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box >> To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <CAHaBuGd8fF7= >> [email protected]> >> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >> boundary="000000000000ae1ce905e5808945" >> >> Long time no see Jorge (-: >> >> Others too are seeing a dramatic surge of interest in Internet-in-a-Box >> this year, and especially in the past month. A lot of the recent interest >> is among people wanting a "complete" English Wikipedia for >> offline/survivalist purposes, as you can see from the 900,000+ views here: >> https://www.tiktok.com/tag/internetinabox >> >> Another big trend is that microSD cards and various other kinds of SSD/HDD >> drives have become *insanely cheap* (so even 1 TB Internet-in-a-Box's are >> becoming much more common, which can hold more than 10 copies of English >> Wikipedia, we're not in Kansas anymore!) Based on clear community >> patterns >> (full copies of Wikipedia is almost always what every community wants) >> we're encouraging people to include the complete Wikipedia in several >> languages now (Spanish and French are always popular, among others). >> >> Hopefully Wikipedia's historical maps will be included in full detail >> (right now ZIM files lose this high-resolution) in future too â >> alongside OpenStreetMap, >> and satellite photos that Internet-in-a-Box also includes, much like >> Google >> Maps but with privacy built in !! >> >> A common endeavor among all these grassroots communities is to build up >> very rich Internet-in-a-Box "Learning Bouquets" for home schoolers, >> missionaries, NGO's and others (some very new demographics we did not see >> in prior years, in countries rich and poor!) Certainly, English remains >> very dominant for now. But in short: the surge is not just among >> "prepper" >> survivalists FYI, as the above TikTok vids might suggest. >> Internet-in-a-Box software being completely free and increasingly very >> easy >> to install (after years of refinement, gets better every year!) is >> definitely part of this spike, that predated the above TikTok videos â >> >> If you're interested in keeping up with these latest twists + turns in >> various countries â i.e. keeping an eye on Internet-in-a-Box grassroots >> community action in all countries (peacetime, wartime, rich, poor) as it >> grows â these will be posted here increasingly in coming months: >> https://twitter.com/internet_in_box >> >> Definitely we're entering a New Chapter. Many hard-working people have >> come together to get us this far, and to see where this leads. Building >> upon Emmanuel Engelhart's & many other *non-traditional* Wikipedia >> volunteers' hard work bringing Wikipedia to completely new kinds of >> communities~ đĒĢđ >> >> Keep in Touch! >> Adam >> >> >> *PS if you want to install Internet-in-a-Box yourself, on almost any old >> laptop (or Raspberry Pi if you prefer!) do that here:* >> >> https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-8.0-Release-Notes >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 10:36 AM Jorge Vargas <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi James! So lovely to hear from you. >> > >> > Out of curiosity, can you share more about what latest build of the >> > internet in a box at estoy shipping? Where are they going and how did >> they >> > reached out? What content are you shipping them with and what memory >> > capacity do you have? >> > >> > Super interesting stuff!! Are you planning to get any feedback from >> these >> > users once they start testing and suing the devices? That would also be >> > really cool learning. >> > >> > Hug, >> > Jorge >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM James Heilman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this >> >> month, having shipped 24 devices so far. >> >> >> >> As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD >> >> each so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this >> will >> >> make it easier for others to get into distribution. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> James Heilman >> >> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Offline-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> >> > -- >> > *Jorge Vargas* (he/him) >> > Director of Partnerships >> > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> > M: (+1) 415.404.9536 >> > I work from Miami, USA. My time zone is UTC/GMT -4/-5. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Offline-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... >> Name: not available >> Type: text/html >> Size: 7333 bytes >> Desc: not available >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 13:14:57 -0400 >> From: Samuel Klein <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box >> To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <CAAtU9WL8unjfzgzBQUr9Q==_0nmqaacwGDd0JU-Z9FHLM-= >> [email protected]> >> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >> boundary="00000000000034200b05e5819c38" >> >> +1 to the increase, I appreciate your thinking about that aspect of >> robustness. Thanks for sharing! >> >> The world of local 1TB iiab users is also very interesting for the >> implications for regional caching of different versions of essential >> information w/ sporadic high-bandwidth exchanges (sneakernet / Paquete >> Semanal style). That also remains the most reliable way to get updates >> inside censorship regimes. >> >> Looking forward to a future w sharably-named bouquets and bouquet-level >> diffs and updates. >> >> đđđđ >> >> On Fri., Aug. 5, 2022, 11:58 a.m. Adam Holt, <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Long time no see Jorge (-: >> > >> > Others too are seeing a dramatic surge of interest in Internet-in-a-Box >> > this year, and especially in the past month. A lot of the recent >> interest >> > is among people wanting a "complete" English Wikipedia for >> > offline/survivalist purposes, as you can see from the 900,000+ views >> here: >> > https://www.tiktok.com/tag/internetinabox >> > >> > Another big trend is that microSD cards and various other kinds of >> SSD/HDD >> > drives have become *insanely cheap* (so even 1 TB Internet-in-a-Box's >> are >> > becoming much more common, which can hold more than 10 copies of English >> > Wikipedia, we're not in Kansas anymore!) Based on clear community >> patterns >> > (full copies of Wikipedia is almost always what every community wants) >> > we're encouraging people to include the complete Wikipedia in several >> > languages now (Spanish and French are always popular, among others). >> > >> > Hopefully Wikipedia's historical maps will be included in full detail >> > (right now ZIM files lose this high-resolution) in future too â >> alongside OpenStreetMap, >> > and satellite photos that Internet-in-a-Box also includes, much like >> Google >> > Maps but with privacy built in !! >> > >> > A common endeavor among all these grassroots communities is to build up >> > very rich Internet-in-a-Box "Learning Bouquets" for home schoolers, >> > missionaries, NGO's and others (some very new demographics we did not >> see >> > in prior years, in countries rich and poor!) Certainly, English remains >> > very dominant for now. But in short: the surge is not just among >> "prepper" >> > survivalists FYI, as the above TikTok vids might suggest. >> > Internet-in-a-Box software being completely free and increasingly very >> easy >> > to install (after years of refinement, gets better every year!) is >> > definitely part of this spike, that predated the above TikTok videos â >> > >> > If you're interested in keeping up with these latest twists + turns in >> > various countries â i.e. keeping an eye on Internet-in-a-Box grassroots >> > community action in all countries (peacetime, wartime, rich, poor) as it >> > grows â these will be posted here increasingly in coming months: >> > https://twitter.com/internet_in_box >> > >> > Definitely we're entering a New Chapter. Many hard-working people have >> > come together to get us this far, and to see where this leads. Building >> > upon Emmanuel Engelhart's & many other *non-traditional* Wikipedia >> > volunteers' hard work bringing Wikipedia to completely new kinds of >> > communities~ đĒĢđ >> > >> > Keep in Touch! >> > Adam >> > >> > >> > *PS if you want to install Internet-in-a-Box yourself, on almost any old >> > laptop (or Raspberry Pi if you prefer!) do that here:* >> > >> > https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-8.0-Release-Notes >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 10:36 AM Jorge Vargas <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Hi James! So lovely to hear from you. >> >> >> >> Out of curiosity, can you share more about what latest build of the >> >> internet in a box at estoy shipping? Where are they going and how did >> they >> >> reached out? What content are you shipping them with and what memory >> >> capacity do you have? >> >> >> >> Super interesting stuff!! Are you planning to get any feedback from >> these >> >> users once they start testing and suing the devices? That would also be >> >> really cool learning. >> >> >> >> Hug, >> >> Jorge >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM James Heilman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this >> >>> month, having shipped 24 devices so far. >> >>> >> >>> As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD >> >>> each so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this >> will >> >>> make it easier for others to get into distribution. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> James Heilman >> >>> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Offline-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >>> >> >> -- >> >> *Jorge Vargas* (he/him) >> >> Director of Partnerships >> >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> >> M: (+1) 415.404.9536 >> >> I work from Miami, USA. 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