Very nice! Congratulations. A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Lead Program Officer, Community Development Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org On Thu, 8 May 2025, 18:30 Stephane Coillet-Matillon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Quick note to share that we have finally released our own offline hotspot > device! > [image: Kiwix hotspot.jpeg] > > It’s a quite a bit of an upgrade from what’s currently on the market as it > runs on a Raspberry Pi 5, can serve up to 24 users at the same time and has > been designed for speed and sturdiness (aluminium casing with heatsink AND > fan, NVMe SSD disk which clocks at 40 times the speed of a regular SD card). > > We have had a bunch of enterprising people (US preppers, for some reason) > in the past few months reselling our software as their own (it’s > free/libre, so it is more of a feature than a bug I guess) and they’re in > the $200-300 range: we’ve positioned ours at $319, shipping and taxes > included to 60+ countries. > > This first batch is built around topical images (preppers, medical, > devstack) of which there is an online demo that you can browse here > <https://demo.hotspot.kiwix.org>. We are also discussing the possibility > of curating content for schools/homeschooling: any feedback or pointers in > that regard would be welcome, particularly regarding the flavours of > Wikipedia that should be included: all of it? only subsets (e.g. Geography, > History, etc.)? Only the Wikipedia for Schools selection)? Let me know your > thoughts on that. > > Next step will obviously be to allow for people to build and order their > personalized device with a content selection of their choice. > > Anyhoo, feel free to spread the word high and wide, and send interested > folks to our product page to order: > > https://kiwix.org/en/kiwix-hotspot/ > > Stephane > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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