On 30/11/2011 04:28, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
I'm asking Emmanuel to send an offline-related summary to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l .
The Hackathon was this time more open than for example in Berlin, so we had the visit of many people which mostly were at the same time really interested in technical details but without mostly knowing so much about the current technological context.
During two days a small team was in a separate room to speak, work and exchange about offline, in particular Kiwix: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offline_room_-_Hackathon_Mumbai_2011...
Our focus was mainly on two things:
* Having achievements. After introducing Translatewiki and explaining how it works, each attendee started to translate (or improve the translation) of Kiwix in his Indian languages and we achieved consequently to get Kiwix localised in 4 additional Indian languages.
* Trying to get more hackers involved in offline stuff. A big part of Sunday was used to explain how works Kiwix, what are the technologies behind and how to setup a compilation environment. This was not so easy to have a really interactive session as many of the audience did not have a GNU/Linux (Windows domination), and the bandwidth was to limited to start downloading ISOs & VMs (and I had not that stuff by me).
Hope to see one or two members of this team joining the Kiwix dev. team and starting hacking the code in the next weeks. Many of them already joined the Kiwix dev. Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer
Emmanuel