Dear all,
you may have noticed a short outage tonight.
The server lost its physical network link several time. We did now exchange
the patch cable. I hope the issue is now resolved.
Then we had the conference call with Erik Möller, Tomasz Finc and Brion Vibber
from Wikimedia Foundation tonight.
The WMF is interested in openZIM as a standard storage format for offline
content and offers support, eg. funding DVDs or similar.
The WMF has some plans in standardizing the distribution of content in several
ways. The ZIM format may play a major role there, but this will have to
evolve in the next one or two years. Then we might see how the plans of the
WMF work out and in which state ZIM will be at that time and what features it
has by then.
I will add the outcome later to the preparation page under
http://openzim.org/Wikimedia_Foundation_Relationship
I am happy to welcome Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia
Foundation, on our list.
Some unrelated news:
For our Windows instance I added RDP support as well. Feel free to use that
instead of VNC (which doesn't work so seemlessly). It works the same way -
just install "rdesktop" and tunnel port 3389 through ssh.
$ ssh -L 3389:localhost:3389 USERNAME(a)openzim.org
$ rdesktop localhost
Thanks for your support,
Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch