Hi Victor,
hope you're well.
I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money.
I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the
global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact
that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is
not that intuitive, though it's possible.
Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a
contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt,
elsewhere?
The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one
of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think
you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it.
let me know what you think
Best regards
Oona
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
All the best, Victor!
Abbas.
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300
From: tom(a)wikimedia.org
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CC: wikimediabr-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor.
I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone
tried
to install a Wikipedia of another language? I
will try <
http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/> sometime soon (alguém da
WMBR
com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo).
What about using their software <http://thewikireader.com/> on Linux? If
you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just
for Windows and Mac stuff.
I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South
America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon <
http://www.amazon.com.br/> site.
Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the
hardware
source open as well, if that don't make they
go bankrupt. Who knows we
could produce locally.
Tom
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My partner and I just started a campaign on
Indiegogo.com to raise
funds to
> buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute
them to schools and kids
in
> places that don't have internet at no
charge to the schools and kids.
>
> The campaign is here:
>
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
>
> The video is here:
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
>
> Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the
campaign,
please
share the link with others!
While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
entirely as a volunteer.
Thanks!
--
*Victor Grigas*
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vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org
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