Dear WMCH members We have been 10 days at Hong Kong and are now back in Europe. We have had a hackathon during 6 days first and have then participated to Wikimania itself.
Although we have not achieved to do 100% of what we wanted to do, most of the work has been done during the hackathon. Our goal was to prepare the next release of Kiwix and we are now almost ready. We will have to finish it during next weeks and then release. You can have more details about our work on this wiki page: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013. We knew it, but this was again confirmed: this type of micro-hackathon is really efficient to exchange between developers but also to produce code. We hope to be able to make two other one next year. During Wikimania itself, we were pretty busy between informal discussions about offline, WMCH booth and other presentations. For the Wikimania attendees we have proposed: * Flyers, banner-up, brochures and USB flash drives (WMCH branded with Wikipedia offline) * A good place on WMCH booth in the Chapter village (great idea pushed by Charles), so a permanent public place during the 3 days. * 3 presentations, mostly in collaborations with Wikimedia France, around the Afripedia Project. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beyond_Afripédia_Mali_Experience.pdf http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kiwix_-_7_ways_to_go_offline.pdf This year and like always, offline efforts have been warmly welcomed by other attendees. But the intensity was definitely higher than before. We think this is because: * The projects (Kiwix and openZIM) are more and more well known, * a better communication, * also because we have had this time many people coming (back) to us with feedbacks about their own usages and deployments of Kiwix. * Our tools and global offer being more and more mature, we also see plenty of potential projects with partners around education program. Most of this was possible because WMCH has been supporting offline technologies since many years. We have also appreciated the communication effort done around Kiwix by WMCH during Wikimania: material was great and personal involvement of Muriel, Charles were really valuable. Special thank to Carl and Christoph (from the public domain project) who were really brave to be most of the time on our WMCH booth, enduring the pretty difficult climatic conditions. To keep it short: we are really happy with these 10 days in Hong-Kong. Thank you WMCH for having made it possible. Emmanuel & Renaud -- Volunteer Technology, GLAM, Trainings Zurich +41 797 670 398 _______________________________________________ http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website Wikimediach-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
