Hi guys,
Good to see great ideas surfacing out of us.Abbas' proposed framework
is just fantastic.All I request of guys is to respond to the various
posts on our mailing list 'coz thats the only way to assure all of us
that we are on the same page.Great head start by Alex,perhaps we
should meet to discus on the frame work?
Regards,
Limoke Oscar
On 9/29/10, Alexander Wafula <xelawafs(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've used Kiwix before, it's one of the various softwares around that reads
zim files. Linux os has become vital hence most opensource software such as
Kiwix are offered in for this platform so hopefuly, we won't have
installation issues.
As for visiting schools with computers, I beleive thd ICT board can assist
with this. They have records for such schools hence we can use them to
narrow down on the school's we'll visit. They are really open towards such
initiatives so hopefully, they'll share this info.
So far, the framework sounds great.
Cheers
Alex
On Tue Sep 28th, 2010 11:22 PM PDT Abbas Mahmoud wrote:
Hi folks,
Its quite unfortunate that last weeks meeting didn't happen. Anyway, what I
wanted us to discuss was for us to propose a framework in the way we'll
approach whatever we want to do.
For instance:
We were to start by experimenting with the offline Wikipedia. So, my
suggestion is that each one of us be designated a region in Kenya within
which he/she shall concentrate on. An appropriate basis of will be
designating team members with the regions from which they come from. Like,
say, if I come from Coast or Mombasa, I'll basically go to Mombasa and
assess the schools that have computers there. After knowing how many
schools we'll approach, we will then prepare our framework: timeline,
budget, methodology, etc.
Actually, most public schools in Kenya have bought computers from Camara
(and Irish non-profit organisation that distributes computers in African
schools at a subsidised cost). These computers use the Linux (or is it
Ubuntu??) operating system as opposed to many private schools whose
computers are Windows-installed. So ofcourse, they'll be some software
issues that may arise when we want to install the offline wiki into these
computers. I'm not the software geek and I have never used offline wiki so
I really have no idea whether or not the offline wiki is compatible with
both types of operating systems.
So, this is the draft framework that I had in mind. I hope to receive input
from you guys so that we can beef this framework up and come up with an
organised, clear-cut plan.
Kind regards
Abbas Mahmood.
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