I'd love to participate in such an event at Wikimania, if something is organized for there (and the dates work OK). I strongly agree with Jessie's analysis - we are perhaps 95% there and stalled, and can't produce a really good offline selection easily until we get the last 5% done.
I can't contribute much at the technical end at all, but I can certainly make hopefully-not-too-stupid suggestions.
Martin (walkerma)
Martin A. Walker Department of Chemistry State University of New York at Potsdam +1 (315) 267-2271 walkerma@potsdam.edu
On 2/28/2012 6:21 PM, Jessie Wild wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Christoph Kepper <christoph.kepper@pediapress.com mailto:christoph.kepper@pediapress.com> wrote:
Am 28.02.2012 um 21:02 schrieb Jessie Wild:This is a great initiative. I wonder if this would be something worth working on in one of the upcoming hackathons. There is one in Berline in March; if there was a group that would be interested in working specifically on this and can go that could be really cool!The Berlin Hackathon takes place from June 1-3. So there is still a little more time. (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012) Best, ChristophOh - thanks for the correction, Cristoph! I guess I was thinking it was before the chapters conference in March.
You know, it might be worth considering if there is a LARGE offline meeting we want to do together: to get together and work on the specific pieces of the Offline system. There are a lot of things we are working on that are *almost* there, but that just need the final push - whether that be tools for article selection, package compilation, reader functionality, or file support.
Would this be of interest to people? I would really love to see these projects scale together to the next level, and would love to devote energy into planning this if we could compile a critical mass.
Jessie
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