Rodrigo - Thank you for pointing out the note about Meta.
Does someone want to start a place on meta where the community can organize
how to best get these devices where they need to go? I'd love to have some
respected organizations & interested Wikipedians helping out by the end of
the week :)
I also think that this is going to be a fun distribution thing because of
all the places the wikireaders will be coming from & going to. I think all
the amazon ones are going to get bought -- but alot of those will need to
be updated.
We are also interested in finding solar battery charger manufacturers who
would want to donate a few chargers so the wikireaders dont become bricks
when their batteries are drained.
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton <
rodrigo.argenton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I somewhat wrong message volunteer Rupert. Any
initiative that promotes
inclusive dissemination of knowledge should be shared and supported by the
Wikimedia movement, and even more when it is crowned with the work done by
volunteers of the Movement, in this case Wikipedia .
Moreover, it is clear that there will be costs other than the purchase of
equipment.
And a note, any staff of any institution of the Wikimedia Movement, is
also part
of the Wikimedia Movement.
Vitor, just an observation, I found completely wrong you put the
conversation in the English Wikipedia, I think you could open this
discussion on Meta, a common site throughout the Wikimedia Movement.
See you, and congratulations for the initiative.
On 5 May 2013 15:55, Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone -
Ok a few things that people have brought up here and elsewhere:
1 - the manufacturer has said to us that the devices can come
pre-installed
with whatever languages are already available :
http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and that he would help with
other language versions (from our dumps) if we communicated a need for
it.
I mentioned this specifically:
http://schools-wikipedia.org/
2 - AMAZON! - yes these are the retailers sitting on overstock, we plan
to
buy whatever is cheapest first (highest impact)
-- and alot of people
have
supersaver shipping (user:Ashstar01 too)
3 - recycling: scroll to the bottom:
http://thewikireader.com/
also the key in distribution will be to find the schools that could
REALLY
USE the devices, (so that they do not go to
waste) so if anyone on this
list knows schools, please share:
wikireaders4kids(a)gmail.com
http://wikireaders4kids.tumblr.com/suggest
4 - I hope i'm not creating any conflicts of interest by being a WMF
staffer, please know - if i do cross some line let me know and i'll
correct
myself ASAP. I really mean this please contact me
if you feel that there
is
any COI at all.
5 - also here is the .en village pump post from a few weeks ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Free_Distri…
6 - we are also looking into contacting battery manufacturers and solar
charger manufacturers to see if they would like the good press by
donating
a few of their chargers & batteries to the
schools that end up getting
the
wikireaders.
Thanks for your interest everyone! As of me writing this, we are already
at
$505 USD and I expect that alot of people are
away from their computers
for
the weekend and will see the campaign on Monday
when they get to work.
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Oona Castro <ocastro(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hi Victor,
> hope you're well.
>
> I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money.
> I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to
the
> global south, though import taxes might be
an issue, as well as the
fact
> that it comes with the English Wikipedia and
downloading other
languages
is
> not that intuitive, though it's possible.
>
> Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and
make a
> contest to give them to a few here in
Brazil, in India, Argentina,
Egypt,
elsewhere?
The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with
one
of those and in Amazon it's being sold by
less than 10 dollars. So I
think
> you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 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
> > > To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > 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!
> >
> > --
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