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 Internet
access is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked the
Foundation if we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia to
pre-load onto these computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, it
does 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