Hello,
I asked two people from the Ben Gurion University's Africa Center to attend Wikimania
for as much as they can, in order to talk with
developers and other people involved in offline projects and "devnations"
initiatives. These two students were part of the Israeli mission to
Santchou, Cameroon, earlier this year, and they had a lot of success with installing
offline versions of the French Wikipedia there. I wrote
about it in Hebrew on wm-il's blog, and Amir sent an English self-translation to the
Foundation's blog, I hope it would be published soon.
Anyway, one of these students is engaged in other volunteering projects throughout the
summer, but this time in Israel, so he said that if he
would be in the vicinity of Haifa on 2-3 August he will come to talk with anyone who would
like to hear about his experience. The other student
agreed to come on Friday to talk about their success story during the main event. She was
unsure whether she could come on 2-3 August too
due to her working schedule (it ain't cheap being a student in this country...)
Anyway, I suggest anyone involved in the "devnations" initiatives be in or
around the hall, where the talk about Africa is held, so we could gather
with her after the talk and ask some useful questions.
Dror K