Re: [Offline-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] News from WM-AR

Hi Ted, Asaf has forwarded me your mail to internal, I will answer it here because I think it belongs to this list. openZIM actually provides two things: * a file format, standard, to store compressed wikis (and other web data) -> ZIM * an open source implementation of ZIM, currently available in C++ from our SVN -> see http://openzim.org/Mission_of_openZIM If you are a mobile developer you could be interested in developing a ZIM reader on your favourite platform, eg. the iPhone or Android. -> see also http://openzim.org/Google_Sommer_of_Code_2010 As far as you can use libzim which is written in C++ and gives you an interface to retrieve contents from ZIM files easily, you just need to create some GUI that allows a user to select (open) a ZIM file, a search window and a HTML viewer window which actually displays the selected content. There is a ZIM reader on Symbian, WikiOnBoard: -> see http://github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard It uses our zimlib and Qt for the GUI. It works very well on my Nokia E71. We are planning to have a Developers Meeting in Haifa next year, during the Hacking Days prior to Wikimania. It is not decided yet as we have to assign most of our yearly budget to it, but we will take the decision on our next Developers in October and I am confident that the team agrees with it. This would be a good opportunity to bring more technical-related people together to get actually things done.

Another open construction site are the works on the Extension:Collection to integrate a ZIM export there. This would make the process to create ZIM files much easier. If you'd like to discuss ZIM related technical issues I recommend doing this in dev-l(a)openzim.org while general offline discussions should happen here.