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[openZIM dev-l] Phone call Linterweb
by Manuel Schneider 21 May '09

21 May '09

At Wednesday, May 27th I will have a phone call with Pascal Martin and his colleagues from Linterweb about the future cooperation between Linterweb and openZIM. Pascal is the CEO of Linterweb. Linterweb started using libzeno in 2008, before openZIM was found. As there was no project and due to that no team or source code repository they improved and developed their own patches for libzeno. Since then a re-integration of Linterweb's work into openZIM is due. I hope that we will be able to fix that soon. Linterweb is still working with their version of libzeno as they have some features in there which did not go into our source code and are thus not in libzim. In my last mail to this list I forwarded the Linterweb version of libzeno and ask you to review that and see how we can integrate that. I appreciate your feedback until Wednesday. Greets, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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[openZIM dev-l] Patches from Linterweb
by Manuel Schneider 21 May '09

21 May '09

Tommi and Emmanuel, please have a look into the attachments. This is the patched code of libzeno from Linterweb. It should run on Windows and fixe some bugs in the library as well as in the reader. Pascal, which is on this list, might want to explain it if needed. Please see if you can integrate that into our current SVN, gaining us the impovments of Linterweb and enable them to use our current SVN code for their further development. I would prefer it if Linterweb had commit access to our subversion. Please give your comments on this list about this code. If there is any reason not to use it please explain why. Greets, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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[openZIM dev-l] zimlib fails on missing cxxtools dependency.
by Tomasz Finc 20 May '09

20 May '09

Can someone point me to which source file/tarball or packaged release contains the 'cxxtools/condition.h' that the trunk copy of zimlib wants? I can't seem to find it in libcxxtools-dev or libcxxtools6 and the src release of cxxtools-1.4.8 doesn't seem to have it either. Would love to compile it on ubuntu and get it tested with our data dumps. let know. --tomasz

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[openZIM dev-l] openZIM / Wikimedia Italia / DVD for LinuxTag
by Manuel Schneider 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi Ilario, > In addition I would announce you that I will send you a contact of a > member of Wikimedia Italia because they have decided to use OpenZIM > for their CDs. this is great! We're currently working heavy on the Wikipedia DVD for LinuxTag. It should be ready by the end of May, so we can order the production. Unfortunately the software is still somewhat beta because there was no time to test it thoroughly as we were quite busy implementing some new features (which couldn't finished all yet). But we can create ZIM files on a regular basis now and we have two readers (zimreader as a webserver and Kiwix as a GUI application using XUL). The DVD has three aims: * show the achievments of openZIM to the public and illustrate how it can be used * being a test case for the project for finding bugs etc. * providing a new Wikipedia offline release which is so much requested The latter one will give us also the opportunity to do PR in the media which we haven't done yet. The DVD, even as a test case, is kind of sustainable as the software and format are more or less fixed, at least they can upgrade or change the reader software whenever they want or get a new ZIM file and can go on using openZIM. It would be great if Wikimedia CH could sponsor the DVD project and LinuxTag exhibition (where we already got an approval for our project booth) with a budget of 1000 CHF. Most of the budget will go into DVD production, the rest I would use to partly sponsor the accommodation in Berlin for the team members. Greets, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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[openZIM dev-l] Fwd: Re: Need of a private mailing list for Chapter Agreement Committee
by Manuel Schneider 19 May '09

19 May '09

Excerpt from a mail I just got from Ilario Valdelli, italian-speaking member of the Wikimedia CH board: [...] In addition I would announce you that I will send you a contact of a member of Wikimedia Italia because they have decided to use OpenZIM for their CDs. Regards Ilario ------------------------------------------------------- -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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[openZIM dev-l] LinuxTag DVD
by Emmanuel Engelhart 17 May '09

17 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hallo, Time goes by: I think we should slowly have a DVD ISO to press. Does someone have time to prepare it? I can make a proposition relatively quickly. The only point I ignore is where is the last de: ZIM file ? and if this ZIM file can be published ? Regards Emmanuel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoQa6AACgkQn3IpJRpNWtOidQCeOSlLe+PX9xt02eO+3Hx6f0GU Y1EAniYksdikttaxUK+xooof3HQnVg7T =DeZH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[openZIM dev-l] [NEW ZIM FILE] wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_alpha5.zim
by Emmanuel Engelhart 17 May '09

17 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is a new alpha of the selection version 0.7 of the English speaking WP1 project: http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_alpha5.zim Infos: * ~ 30000 article * All thumbnails * thematic + geographic + alphabetic indexes * Welcome page. I'm already working on a new version with: * better revision selection * less black links in indexes Emmanuel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoQIZQACgkQn3IpJRpNWtOCtgCfYqSjNRBn6E7FtARfm72uOpzy z90An2zH8/5On56gDSyN7589DxmyWHI9 =XCBz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [openZIM dev-l] Wikimedia-updated MediaWiki instance for dumping
by Manuel Schneider 08 May '09

08 May '09

Hi Thomasz, thanks for your answer. I was thinking of a wiki on a server which is not part of the cluster but configured the same way as the productive Wikimedia wikis. Especially the updates of the software is the issue, so the installation is always suitable for Wikimedia content (Mediawiki version, extensions etc.). Then we need the possibility to maintain our own skin and our own version of wiki2html on that server (I think both should become part of Mediawiki anyway). The initial idea was that we use it as a blank setup where we can import the latest dump of whatever wiki we want to convert to ZIM. But if a database connection to the Wikimedia cluster would be possible this would boost the whole process a lot. But after thinking through all this I am at the point where I see the big solution: Put the zimwriter into Mediawiki / the Wikimedia dumps and we're set... What do you think? At the moment the DVD for LinuxTag in June is priority and the zimwriter is still work in progress, but we need a solution for current Wikipedia dumps. Greets, Manuel -- Urspr. Mitt. -- Betreff: Re: [openZIM dev-l] Wikimedia-updated MediaWiki instance for dumping Von: Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> Datum: 20.04.2009 22:29 Manuel Schneider wrote: > Dear Brion, > > is it possible that we can have a MediaWiki instance which is being kept > up-to-date by the regular synchronisation on the WM cluster, so we can import > all types of dumps in there to make ZIM files from it? > > We will use a modified version of wiki2html and a special skin for the dumps, > so we need an extra instance but it should be always up-to-date with the > Wikimedia projects. This would be extremely helpful for us. > > Any ideas? > > Greets, > > > Manuel > Filling in since Brion is out in meetings today. I'm a little confused with what you are asking here. Are you requesting a machine that is configured the same as any one of our web server nodes to serve wikipedia traffic and connects to our databases but is not part of our general cluster? Or are you asking for a blank node to populate with different types of data that you can in turn generate ZIM files from? Let know and we can get something in place. --tomasz _______________________________________________ dev-l mailing list dev-l(a)openzim.org https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l

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[openZIM dev-l] WG: [LT2009] Project "openZIM" accepted
by Manuel Schneider 01 May '09

01 May '09

Dear all, we managed to get a booth at LinuxTag in Berlin this year (June 24th - 27th). This is good news! But it also means work - now we have to get ready for the Wikipedia DVD, the ISO must be ready by May 31st. Please keep me up to date with the current status. Tommi, did you hear about your talk submission? Cheers, Manuel -- Urspr. Mitt. -- Betreff: [LT2009] Project "openZIM" accepted Von: projects(a)linuxtag.org Datum: 29.04.2009 21:03 Dear Manuel Schneider, we are excited to inform you, that your application for the project openZIM qualified for a sponsored booth at this year's LinuxTag. Please note this is just the confirmation of our general acceptance of your submission. The size and location of the booth will be decided later mainly depending on the overall amount of accepted project submissions and the quality of the exhibition concept you provide us using the virtual conference center and in dialogue with the project committee. Even there is plenty of time until the LinuxTag's doors open from June 24-27, 2009, we encourage you to start your preparations right now. First you should ensure, that your projects' profile at the virtual conference center (vcc) is complete: https://vcc.linuxtag.org/cc.pl?rm=editproject;personality=project;id=15015 >From now on you can order exhibitor passes for your booth staff. In comparison to other events we have no hard limit for the amount of exhibitor passes, but we kindly ask you to order only a decent amount. We review all orders and approve them manually. The exhibitor passes have just enable its possessor to enter Berlin fairgrounds a little bit earlier than the public. Please do not order passes for friends or project members, which do not help at your booth. For them we will provide you enough eTickets, which are free tickets for all four days. To order exhibitor passes, please use the vcc: https://vcc.linuxtag.org/cc.pl?rm=exhibitorpass;personality=project;id=15015 We organize all information in the public LinuxTag Wiki. Please find all related information here: http://wiki.linuxtag.org/w/fp:Main_Page Before sending questions to the Project Committee we kindly ask you to have a look into the FAQ and the A-Z pages. We have subscribed you to our mailing lists for all participating free software projects: * projects-announce(a)linuxtag.org - A low traffic, read only list where all newsletters and information regarding the free projects participation at LinuxTag will be sent to. * projects-discussion(a)linuxtag.org - The official list for sharing ideas and discussing everything related to LinuxTag. In case you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the projects committee by mail: projects(a)linuxtag.org. Your friendly VCC email bot on behalf of the Project Committee LinuxTag 2009

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