Hi Ilario,

In addition I would announce you that I will send you a contact of a member of Wikimedia Italia because they have decided to use OpenZIM for their CDs.

this is great!

We're currently working heavy on the Wikipedia DVD for LinuxTag. It should be ready by the end of May, so we can order the production.

Unfortunately the software is still somewhat beta because there was no time to test it thoroughly as we were quite busy implementing some new features (which couldn't finished all yet). But we can create ZIM files on a regular basis now and we have two readers (zimreader as a webserver and Kiwix as a GUI application using XUL).

The DVD has three aims: * show the achievments of openZIM to the public and illustrate how it can be used * being a test case for the project for finding bugs etc. * providing a new Wikipedia offline release which is so much requested

The latter one will give us also the opportunity to do PR in the media which we haven't done yet. The DVD, even as a test case, is kind of sustainable as the software and format are more or less fixed, at least they can upgrade or change the reader software whenever they want or get a new ZIM file and can go on using openZIM.

It would be great if Wikimedia CH could sponsor the DVD project and LinuxTag exhibition (where we already got an approval for our project booth) with a budget of 1000 CHF. Most of the budget will go into DVD production, the rest I would use to partly sponsor the accommodation in Berlin for the team members.

Greets,

Manuel