[Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box

[Adam Holt]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022, 1:15 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> 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.
>

Censorship is beyond our control but certainly we want Internet-in-a-Box to
be reliable for all ethnicities and all age groups in all countries — no
matter how "dirigiste" vs "pure democracy" each country may be.

#LetMeLearn as they say...in school, at home, in the library, in rural
health clinics...or even in prison.

Looking forward to a future w sharably-named bouquets and bouquet-level
> diffs and updates.
>
> 
>

*Strongly Agree *

If software software developers are able to assist — they should write to
me or make contact here:

https://internet-in-a-box.org

While "Learning Bouquets" (grassroots curricular collections) are not yet
"bulletproof" today (across all kinds of Learning Packs, not just ZIM files
and Wikipedia) there's definitely enormous demand for this hassle-free
approach to DIY.

We know this *intimately* from listening to learning communities of every
kind — all around the planet — rapid + easy install of Internet-in-a-Box
content is essentially #1 on almost everyone's list (with "curricular
alignment" being a HUGE chore, as everyone eventually figures out :-)

So Yes: software engineering assistance from any talented volunteers
interested in getting us over the hump — *will indeed make these "Learning
Bouquets" installable + evolvable for everyone in coming years ✅*

Yup that also means a de facto "CDN" working at gigabit/s speeds in coming
years (lots of work ahead of us ;-)

We're definitely getting there ⚒️

One step at a time.  As can be seen from a few quick examples here below —
these are just some of the most popular "Learning Bouquet" choices made
available to you/schools/everyone (thanks to the work of volunteer Tim
Moody) when you install Internet-in-a-Box today — bases on actual schools
preferences in these 3 countries:

http://iiab.me/jamaica (English only!)

http://iiab.me/mexico (Spanish-centric)

http://iiab.me/haiti (French-centric)





> On Fri., Aug. 5, 2022, 11:58 a.m. Adam Holt,  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 — 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  ✅
>>
>> If you're interested in keeping up with these latest twists + turns in
>> various countries — i.e. keeping an eye on Internet-in-a-Box grassroots
>> community action in all countries (peacetime, wartime, rich, poor) as it
>> grows — 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

[Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box

[Adam Holt]

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 —
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  ✅

If you're interested in keeping up with these latest twists + turns in
various countries — i.e. keeping an eye on Internet-in-a-Box grassroots
community action in all countries (peacetime, wartime, rich, poor) as it
grows — 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~ 磌

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  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  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.
>>
>>
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Re: [Offline-l] New tool : Zimit

[Adam Holt]

1) Powerful proof-of-concept !!!

2) However for offline / low-income communities there's a fatal flaw with
ZIM files that require https (TLS/SSL) which generally require web server
certificates that renew every 90-days-or-so using a service like
https://letsencrypt.com -- by definition this is inherently / tragically
not possible in offline / low-income communities.  As Tim Moody alluded to
below, and also at openzim/zimit#57


3) Does anybody see any practical way forward, for us all to pull together
here, towards giving offline / low-income communities a very pragmatic way
forward?


On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:59 AM Tim Moody  wrote:

> I have tried this and it works pretty well. One thing you didn't mention
> is that because, as you said, it uses service workers, the server running
> kiwix-serve must support SSL. Otherwise kiwix-serve will not be able to
> serve up any zims produced by zimit. This is unfortunate as offline ssl
> certificates need to be self signed and that will cause browsers to
> complain.
>
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>> Hola,
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>> Since I’m bearded and moderately overweight let me be the one to bring
>> the first present for the holiday season and introduce Zimit, a pretty cool
>> new tool that allows people to produce their own Zim files. Yes, you read
>> that correctly.
>>
>> * If you are the type that cannot wait to unwrap presents, you will find
>> it at https://youzim.it 
>>
>> * For everyone else:
>> The interface is pretty minimalist, and that’s part of the message:
>> 1. Insert target URL
>> 2. Insert email address so we can tell you when your zim is ready
>> 3. Download zim file
>>
>> There is a limit at 1,000 items for each zim because (a) we don’t want to
>> DDoS unsuspecting websites with requests; and (ii) also would not be able
>> to afford the bill If it becomes as popular as we think it will be (we need
>> to find an acceptable business model and pricing structure: any advice
>> welcome). But since this is free software, you can obviously cut the
>> middleman by copying, studying, modifying and redistributing the code that
>> can be found here: https://github.com/openzim/zimit <
>> https://github.com/openzim/zimit>
>>
>> Because this relies on newly-implemented service workers, these new zim
>> files will only work on Kiwix-android and Kiwix-serve at the moment, but
>> this will obviously expand to other platforms in 2021.
>>
>> This project was entirely funded by a Mozilla Open Source Support Award,
>> thanks to them!
>>
>> Cheers,
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[Offline-l] BBC Podcast: how to put THE internet in a box !

[Adam Holt]

Thanks especially to Benjamin Bach in Denmark who made this happen, by
referring the BBC's "People Fixing the World" program to me and others
earlier this summer.  Yes this podcast is only 23min, but it took many
months of hard work to pull together!

Huge Thank You to Anish Mangal whose Internet-in-a-Box community action in
remote Northern India truly brought this podcast to life — and to everyone
who pulled together, so that the global public rich and poor listen up —
and wake up to all these many amazing "Offline Internet" initiatives...

All thanks to BBC producer Tim Colls himself, who courageously went far
beyond the usual Technology Solutionism — carefully addressing "Educational
Imperialism" and the ethics of ignoring grassroots community voices — *and
what everyone of us CAN in fact do about this:*

How to put the internet in a box
People Fixing the World Oct 19, 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv1s (23min)

*Thanks to Everyone catalyzing these grassroots learning hubs of all kind,
in your own country AND in your own culture!*

In that spirit (how can we *each* help, everyone in *their* our way)
anybody with even the most basic Linux skills should consider trying
out an Internet-in-a-Box
7.2  pre-release
to craft their very own "community learning hotspot."  Thereby seeding
exactly such Sneakernet-of-Alexandria "Burnings for Learnings" peoples
networks, in any rural or impoverished community that you can find, that
deserves its own aspirational tools...

   - What are the most humane Sneakernets-of-Alexandria currently being
   built today, around this planet?
   - How should these distant human networks in health clinics / schools
   / prisons / libraries (and in your own home!) tangibly learn from each
   other, co-curating to Pay It Forward helping others?

*None of us have all the answers in 2020!  But Internet-in-a-Box
 is one key piece of this puzzle
and installable on most any Raspberry Pi or PC ,
if you too can enable kids/communities and civic networks in your part of
the world.  So do write us
 if you have any
questions about how best to make this possible, so we help each you (and
help each other!) materially help others ~*
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[Offline-l] ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 7.0 for $35 Raspberry Pi 4

[Adam Holt]

*Install Internet-in-a-Box 3X Faster on Raspberry Pi 4*

*F**or Rural Schools, Libraries and Medical Clinics*

When clickbait-driven misinformation puts journalism, human rights (and
democracy itself) at risk — where do we turn?

Communities around the planet are taking the future into their own hands —
crafting their own purpose-built digital libraries to...

*Bring essential / endangered / indigenous knowledge and learning rights to
life*

*Announcing Internet-in-a-Box 7.0 — with offline Wikipedia, offline Khan
Academy, RACHEL content packs — and tons more...*

   - Pick a subset of the Internet Archive Offline
   

from
   some of the greatest libraries around the world.
   - Install an IIAB Map Pack  for
   your favorite continent, with satellite photos across 10 levels of zoom,
   and natural/human geography visible across 15-to-19 levels of zoom.
   (OpenStreetMap vector maps are like Google Maps, but better⁠ for schools
   especially⁠, as they work offline and avoid the advertising!)
   - Involve MediaMaking tools⁠ like Nextcloud 17's offline collaboratives
   editor  (like Google Docs) helping
   students learn modern/team workflows.
   - Explore electronics projects with Node-Red 1.0
    flow-based /
   event-driven visual programming.
   - Set up an "offline GitHub"
    to
   teach coding-with-a-conscience where there's no Internet, nurturing the
   next generation of free and open developers!

DIY'ing your own "Library of Alexandria" is that easy — for any local schools,
libraries, health clinics and/or family of your choosing.

Simply drag and drop the best of the World Free Knowledge Content Packs,
using Internet-in-a-Box installed on any $35 Raspberry Pi 4 computer:

*Building your own offline library is now easier than ever*

Thanks Everyone for weaving in the (g)local knowledge ecosystems that
matter most — both the Internet's crown jewels (Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap,
Khan Academy, etc) AND countless lesser-known environmental /
indigenous cultural
content vitals.

You can even update to the latest Content Packs, bringing your rural
Internet-in-a-Box into the city every semester, using almost any home
Internet connection e.g. to download the very latest Wikipedia etc!

Please read about Internet-in-a-Box 7.0's new capabilities making this all
possible: *IIAB 7.0 Release Notes*


And try it out, asking us

any
questions!

Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 7.0 represents 7+ months of work since IIAB 6.7 — and
we're very proud to offer this to you for free!

Thanks to some amazing free/open source work from professional volunteers
around the world
, who are
servicing and learning from the more than 20 countries
 where
IIAB is in use, in partially offline and fully offline environments both.

And...if you're not yet familiar with Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB), watch our
videos to get acquainted: *http://internet-in-a-box.org
*

*Last but not least, consider our personal INVITATION...*

1) The Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) Community Summit will be in Boston November
7-10, in conjunction with Wikipedia North America's
http://wikiconference.org at MIT.  To attend, please reply privately to
this email, so we can help you make arrangements.  Building on our 2017
http://OFF.NETWORK  "med/ucational" content hackathon,
we'll demo our new offline versions of
https://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/ inviting
all to do similar, learning how easy it is to now *roll your own*
environmental/indigenous/etc
Content Packs!

2) Whether you're on the technology, humanitarian or field implementation
side of learning rights, do consider helping us refine the upcoming IIAB 7.1
.  Here's a list of just a few of
the advances

now
being considered and worked on, that we'd really love your help
architecting and polishing for early 2020!

3) Join any of our Thursday Internet-in-a-Box Live Community Calls (
http://minutes.iiab.io) to learn about and contribute to everyone's
high-quality free and open knowledge ecosystems — typically held 10AM NYC
Time — in alliance with Wikipedia, Kiwix, OpenStreetMap, Kolibri (formerly
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Re: [Offline-l] ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 6.7 lets you drag+drop Wikipedia, Sugarizer, Maps, Apps, Etc!

[Adam Holt]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 2:01 AM Peter Southwood 
wrote:

> Will this work on an Android tablet?
>

There are schools e.g. in Mexico that use Android tablets *in the hands of
their students* to connect by Wi-Fi to their Internet-in-a-Box.

As many as 32 tablets/devices can connect simultaneously to these
Internet-in-a-Box hotspots that are commonly built with a $35 Raspberry Pi
3 B+.

That is almost always the best way to get started — install
Internet-in-a-Box on a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ or similar.


Of course some prefer to install Internet-in-a-Box on an old laptop or PC *(and
possibly some tablets might work too?!)*

Key Questions:

- Can your hardware run Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 9/10, or Raspbian?

- Can its internal Wi-Fi run as an Access Point, to be hassle-free for your
community?

- Does its internal Wi-Fi support enough simultaneous Wi-Fi connections to
be hassle-free for your community?  (e.g. Raspberry Pi supports 32
simultaneous Wi-Fi connections; whereas Intel NUC mini PCs generally
support 12 simultaneous Wi-Fi connections.)

*See http://FAQ.IIAB.IO <http://FAQ.IIAB.IO> to see others' hardware/OS
implementation recommendations.*


(If anyone has success installing Internet-in-a-Box on a tablet, please let
others know — feel free to directly edit the MediaWiki-based FAQ above —
with thanks to One Laptop Per Child that is hosting it!)


Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:* Offline-l [mailto:offline-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Adam Holt
> *Sent:* 23 February 2019 01:05
> *To:* Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline
> *Subject:* [Offline-l] ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 6.7 lets you drag+drop
> Wikipedia, Sugarizer, Maps, Apps, Etc!
>
>
>
> Announcing the release of Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 !
>
>
>
> Please use it to "steal" the Internet's crown jewels
> <http://internet-in-a-box.org/#quality-content> and craft your own
> LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA using a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, or any old laptop.
>
>
>
> Our HOW-TO videos
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0cBGCxr_WPBPa3IqPVEe3g> show you how
> to customize your Internet-in-a-Box "knowledge hotspot" — for your school,
> your clinic, your library, your entire region — or your very own family.
>
>
>
> Install Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 using its 1-line installer
> <http://download.iiab.io/6.7> to transform an old laptop into a "learning
> palace" for a developing world school, that urgently needs this today!
>
>
>
> Then *drag-and-drop* the very best of the World's Free Knowledge
> (Wikipedia in any language, thousands of Khan Academy videos, zoomable
> OpenStreetMap, E-Books, WordPress journaling, the new Sugarizer 1.1, Toys
> from Trash electronics projects, ETC) for those who are burning for
> learning — but just happen to be offline.
>
>
>
> Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 Release Notes:
>
> https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.7-Release-Notes
>
>
>
> *The crown jewels are all free, liberated — and open source too!
> Internet-in-a-Box is now used in schools, libraries and medical clinics in
> more than 20 countries. Why not DIY your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a
> $35 Raspberry Pi computer, starting today?*
>
>
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[Offline-l] ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 6.7 lets you drag+drop Wikipedia, Sugarizer, Maps, Apps, Etc!

[Adam Holt]

Announcing the release of Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 !

Please use it to "steal" the Internet's crown jewels
 and craft your own LIBRARY
OF ALEXANDRIA using a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, or any old laptop.

Our HOW-TO videos
 show
you how to customize your Internet-in-a-Box "knowledge hotspot" — for your
school, your clinic, your library, your entire region — or your very own
family.

Install Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 using its 1-line installer
 to transform an old laptop into a "learning
palace" for a developing world school, that urgently needs this today!

Then *drag-and-drop* the very best of the World's Free Knowledge (Wikipedia
in any language, thousands of Khan Academy videos, zoomable OpenStreetMap,
E-Books, WordPress journaling, the new Sugarizer 1.1, Toys from Trash
electronics projects, ETC) for those who are burning for learning — but
just happen to be offline.

Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 Release Notes:
https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.7-Release-Notes

*The crown jewels are all free, liberated — and open source too!
Internet-in-a-Box is now used in schools, libraries and medical clinics in
more than 20 countries. Why not DIY your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a
$35 Raspberry Pi computer, starting today?*
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Re: [Offline-l] Kiwix / WMF partnership

[Adam Holt]

At Last!

It took a decade to rebuild the WMF-Kiwix marriage (all marriages are tough
work) and we Look Forward To Many Children :-)


On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Stéphane Coillet-Matillon <
steph...@kiwix.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A quick note to announce that Kiwix and the Wikimedia Foundation have
> decided to enter a more formal partnership to replace the limited,
> project-based approach we had until now. The official announcement is here:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-
> foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia
>
> The TL;DR of it is that we'll be able to continue to build on the massive
> improvements we made over the past 18 months. We have 3 million users, and
> there are 4 billion people without reliable access: there certainly is room
> for more growth.
>
> This is a first, small step, but an important one : for this year we'll
> focus on improving user experience, and make it easier for people to access
> content offline (aka zim farm). If this works well, I'd like us to look
> into incremental updates as early as next year.
>
> Thanks to everyone on this list that helped make it happen!
>
> Emmanuel and Stephane
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Re: [Offline-l] notes from Wikimania session

[Adam Holt]

FYI James Heilman said Nicaragua but meant Guatemala (discussing medical
deployments of Internet-in-a-Box, verbal typo no worries!)

If anybody wants to set the record straight in Stephen & Anne's notes (we
have many other Internet-in-a-Box projects ongoing in Nicaragua, but in
schools rather than clinics!)


On Aug 25, 2017 4:57 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you!

On Aug 25, 2017 1:53 PM, "Anne Gomez" <ago...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello offliners!
>
> In case you didn't know it, we hosted a session at Wikimania to talk about
> access as it is impacted by the cost of data. Offline access is one of the
> potential solutions to bridge that gap.
>
> Jorge Vargas led the panel, which I was on alongside Stephane
> Coillet-Matillon (Kiwix), Adam Holt (Internet in a Box), Florence Devuoard
> (Wikifundi + Wiki Loves Women + more), and James Heilman (Wikimedicine
> Project + Wikimedia Foundation board).
>
> We had a great discussion and it was, for me, a great kickoff into the
> off.network hackathon the following day.
>
> I've published notes from the session here for those of you who are
> interested: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Wikimania_1
> 7_session_notes
>
> As always, let me/us know if you have any questions or follow up comments.
>
> I look forward to continued collaboration in the future!
> Anne
>
>
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