Hi,
I'm Emmanuel Engelhart, member of Wikimedia France board. I aim publishing Wikipedia in French.
We are a few persons who try to manage to do that.
I personally : - wrote an offline-reader requirement document - program the scripts to build the document repository - want to build the index with Xapian (I want to try CLucene too)
I need some help to : - make a perfect mirror of wikipedia locally, I have a problem to import all images. - make a GUI over the document repository & index, I'm not a GUI programer ; Qt, GTK, XPFE programer needed ;-)
To my opinion it's possible to present a simple offline-reader for Wikimania.
So join Wiki-offline-reader-l@wikimedia.org if you're interested.
Best wishes
Emmanuel