Very nice! Congratulations.

   A.


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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
>
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