Rodrigo - Thank you for pointing out the note about Meta. Does someone want to start a place on meta where the community can organize how to best get these devices where they need to go? I'd love to have some respected organizations & interested Wikipedians helping out by the end of the week :)
I also think that this is going to be a fun distribution thing because of all the places the wikireaders will be coming from & going to. I think all the amazon ones are going to get bought -- but alot of those will need to be updated. We are also interested in finding solar battery charger manufacturers who would want to donate a few chargers so the wikireaders dont become bricks when their batteries are drained. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton < rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I somewhat wrong message volunteer Rupert. Any initiative that promotes > inclusive dissemination of knowledge should be shared and supported by the > Wikimedia movement, and even more when it is crowned with the work done by > volunteers of the Movement, in this case Wikipedia . > > Moreover, it is clear that there will be costs other than the purchase of > equipment. > > And a note, any staff of any institution of the Wikimedia Movement, is > also part > of the Wikimedia Movement. > > Vitor, just an observation, I found completely wrong you put the > conversation in the English Wikipedia, I think you could open this > discussion on Meta, a common site throughout the Wikimedia Movement. > > See you, and congratulations for the initiative. > > > > > On 5 May 2013 15:55, Victor Grigas <vgri...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hi everyone - > > > > Ok a few things that people have brought up here and elsewhere: > > > > 1 - the manufacturer has said to us that the devices can come > pre-installed > > with whatever languages are already available : > > http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and that he would help with > > other language versions (from our dumps) if we communicated a need for > it. > > I mentioned this specifically: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ > > > > 2 - AMAZON! - yes these are the retailers sitting on overstock, we plan > to > > buy whatever is cheapest first (highest impact) -- and alot of people > have > > supersaver shipping (user:Ashstar01 too) > > > > 3 - recycling: scroll to the bottom: http://thewikireader.com/ > > also the key in distribution will be to find the schools that could > REALLY > > USE the devices, (so that they do not go to waste) so if anyone on this > > list knows schools, please share: > > wikireaders4k...@gmail.com > > http://wikireaders4kids.tumblr.com/suggest > > > > 4 - I hope i'm not creating any conflicts of interest by being a WMF > > staffer, please know - if i do cross some line let me know and i'll > correct > > myself ASAP. I really mean this please contact me if you feel that there > is > > any COI at all. > > > > 5 - also here is the .en village pump post from a few weeks ago: > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Free_Distribution_of_WikiReaders_to_offline_schools_around_the_world.2C_funded_by_Kickstarter.com_or_Indiegogo.com > > > > 6 - we are also looking into contacting battery manufacturers and solar > > charger manufacturers to see if they would like the good press by > donating > > a few of their chargers & batteries to the schools that end up getting > the > > wikireaders. > > > > Thanks for your interest everyone! As of me writing this, we are already > at > > $505 USD and I expect that alot of people are away from their computers > for > > the weekend and will see the campaign on Monday when they get to work. > > > > > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Oona Castro <ocas...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Victor, > > > hope you're well. > > > > > > I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money. > > > I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to > the > > > global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the > fact > > > that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other > languages > > is > > > not that intuitive, though it's possible. > > > > > > Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and > make a > > > contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, > Egypt, > > > elsewhere? > > > > > > The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with > > one > > > of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I > > think > > > you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it. > > > > > > let me know what you think > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > Oona > > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbas...@hotmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > All the best, Victor! > > > > Abbas. > > > > > > > > > Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 > > > > > From: t...@wikimedia.org > > > > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids > > > > > > > > > > That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. > > > > > > > > > > I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have > someone > > > > tried > > > > > to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try < > > > > > http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/> sometime soon > (alguém > > da > > > > WMBR > > > > > com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). > > > > > > > > > > What about using their software <http://thewikireader.com/> on > > Linux? > > > If > > > > > you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are > > > just > > > > > for Windows and Mac stuff. > > > > > > > > > > I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in > South > > > > > America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon < > > > > > http://www.amazon.com.br/> site. > > > > > > > > > > Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the > > > > hardware > > > > > source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows > > we > > > > > could produce locally. > > > > > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas < > vgri...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > > > > > > > My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to > raise > > > > funds to > > > > > > buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and > > kids > > > > in > > > > > > places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and > > kids. > > > > > > > > > > > > The campaign is here: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids > > > > > > > > > > > > The video is here: > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 > > > > > > > > > > > > Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the > > > > campaign, > > > > > > please share the link with others! > > > > > > > > > > > > While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing > this > > > > > > entirely as a volunteer. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > *Victor Grigas* > > > > > > Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> > > > > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > > > vgri...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 > > > > > > 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor > > > > > > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > > > > > https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > > Unsubscribe: > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > > > > > "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more > > > useful > > > > > than a life spent doing nothing." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > *Victor Grigas* > > Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> > > Wikimedia Foundation > > vgri...@wikimedia.org > > +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 > > 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor > > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > -- > Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton > rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com > +55 11 979 718 884 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l