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Hisham Mundol, 23/06/2011 11:54:T*here are 19,000 laptops*that will be distributed in this initiative.(These are on Ubuntu Linux - and very reasonably configured.)
How much disk space do they have? It shouldn't be too difficult to add a Kiwix installation with English language (and indic languages) Wikipedias ZIMs, if there's space enough.
Assam has traditionally had a problem with infrastructure and Internetaccess is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked theFoundation if we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia topre-load onto these computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, itdoes need to be of appropriate content.
Uh? What sort of Wikipedia content could ever be unappropriate for 15-16 years old boys and girl? I can't imagine any. :-/
Nemo