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_201…
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
