On 05/10/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikispam(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Incidently, has someone from Wikimedia talked to the
MIT group about
including Wikipedia on the laptops? They'd be kind of crazy not to - I think
the two projects fit together perfectly.
Perhaps not. A key cost control in the MIT project is to not include
vast amounts of storage space - see
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/faq.html - which suggests that including a
gig or three of content wouldn't be viable.
(Of course, one of the corrolaries of the "instant mesh network" idea
they're playing with would be to have a single higher-grade machine on
the site which serves as a library; there may be some potential there)
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk