Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

This reminds me of several conversations I had with Barbara Schack of Libraries Without Borders [1] at the Lyon hackathon (I've copied her on this email). They've developed the Ideas Box [2], a portable media center intended for locations like refugee camps. It's similar to the Internet-in-a-Box,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

Offline access is a nice idea, but the logistics of delivery seem daunting. Thankfully, a large number of refugees and migrants have smartphones.[1] Probably the biggest ways we could help refugees are really to: A) make Wikipedia super performant on mobile, particularly for low-end Android

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

Heh, It's times like these I realize I'm still in a minority here. As one of the few non-american/european readers of the list, my perspective, differs on this issue. I don't know what people imagine when they think of the conditions in these refugee camps. Allow me to paint a picture using

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

I think that access to open-access, easily accessible and editable maps might be quite helpful to refugees. Info about different countries' policies and practices toward migrants might also be helpful. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

Something that I would find interesting is a more detailed explanation of the reasoning behind the decision to put Flow into maintenance mode instead of continuing efforts to make it suitible for more diverse purposes. I'm not sure that Flow could ever fully replace all talk pages, but I tilt in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

MZMcBride mzmcbride.com> writes: > > Forwarding this to wikimedia-l as it doesn't seem to be very technical in > nature, but definitely seems worthy of discussion. > > MZMcBride > > Danny Horn wrote: > >For a while now, the Collaboration team has been working on Flow, the > >structured

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

On 08.09.2015 20:37, Leinonen Teemu wrote: > On 8.9.2015, at 20.04, Keegan Peterzell wrote: >> However, before we get all excited with plans, it might be important for >> someone who is interested to contact the project lead and see if >> internet-in-a-box is even still

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

On 08.09.2015 21:47, Tito Dutta wrote: >> If so, perhaps it is worth co-ordinating with some disaster >> relief NGOs such as MSF, Red Cross and Oxfam? This is the point. Concerning offline, the technology works. The problem is definitively the lack of advertisement/awareness/coordination with