Hi
Kiwix ist a free software project aiming to provide access to free
knowledge to people without access to Internet. It is supported by the
Wikimedia movement, of Wikipedia fame.
Kiwix is a 10 years old software suite developed to give access to Web
content to people with no Internet access. It works a bit like a digital
offline library.
Its older piece, Kiwix desktop, is a classic desktop application for
Windows and Linux which reads data files with the extension *.zim. It
displays the content like a Web browser would do.
Based on the deprecated Xulrunner framework of Mozilla, Kiwix desktop
has now reached it end of lifecycle and also urgently needs a full
revamping of its user interface, using the Qt windowing library.
As far as features go, the new version of kiwix-desktop should more or
less offer the same functionalities as the older version:
* Portable on Windows/Linux
* Internationalization and localization support
* Remote and local library management
* Loading, displaying an searching in the ZIM files
* Tabulations
* Bookmarking/reading list
Most of the application’s “core” already exists as a software library
called Kiwix library. Most of the work is about binding it with a new –
and yet to be created – user interface.
You would work in close collaboration with a UX expert/UI designer and
with the C++ developer of the core library kiwix-lib. This work is part
of a more global effort to improve the Kiwix software as a whole.
You are a developer committed to (or at least familiar with) open source
software, and familiar with GNU/Linux. You already have a small working
experience with Qt and C++ (on personal projects for example). Ideally
you will to share, explain, and demonstrate a past project (for example
on Github).
This internship is paid ~1000€/month and takes place in Lyon, France.
The work will be organised and framed by an experienced developer
familiar with the project.
Candidates interested by this internship should send an email (cover
letter and CV) to Matthieu Gautier (mgautier at kymeria.fr).
Here is the online version of this open position:
http://www.kiwix.org/internship-c-qt-6-months/
Regards
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web:
http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter:
https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more:
http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication