Manuel Schneider wrote:
== Wikimedia Italia / italian Wikipedia on DVD ==
I also talked to Frieda Brioschi from Wikimedia Italia concerning their
Wikipedia DVD. They have a company in Italy which created a proprietary
software with GUI for the DVD and an "unknown" storage for the data (reminds
me of the Directmedia approach in the first place). She said the software
was "awkward". They plan to have a new DVD this year and the company promised
to write a new software which is better. Frieda stated that WMIT is not yet
sure if they will sign a contract with this company again.
After talking about openZIM Frieda said that she will take that into account.
I offered her that WMIT can make their DVD on its own by using our software
and maybe Kiwix, or they point the company to our software which they can use
and integrate zimlib or she may also ask Emmanuel - maybe he would be willing
to make a DVD for WMIT.
Surely, the real problem is that WM IT has received a 50% of its 2008's
incoming with the royalties of the DVD... without this new version they
will lose this incoming for the following year.
I think that they are seriously looking for a new software.
Ilario