Hisham Mundol
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On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
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.
320GB so space isn't a problem.
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. :-/
:-) Would suggest we err on the side of caution. majorly on the side of caution.
Nemo