Wow, 4GB at 7Euros is quite cheap. Here in Kenya, they are much more expensive, that's why I opted for DVD's. Had I known, I could have bought the memory sticks while I was in Europe.
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> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:17:24 +0100
> From: manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch
> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] WIKIPEDIA FOR SCHOOLS DVD SUITE CONTENTS
>
> How expensive are USB stick, 4 GB should be big enough, right?
>
> Could we afford to just copy everything on a stick and give it to the
> schools? I assume that USB is available on all computers.
> How many schools are there, how many sticks do we need?
> In Europe I get a 4 GB stick for 7 EUR, so for a few hundred EURs we
> could give away a lot of sticks.
>
>
> /Manuel
>
> On 23.02.2011 14:08, SAMSON MAOSA wrote:
> > That is the perfect thing to do. I can't think of any better option.
> > Please remind David to capture that in his Mombasa previsit since I
> > never saw it in his form. I am almost done with the manual b the way,
> > just struggling with the use of Wikipedia for Schools part since I lost
> > my zim file. It would be easy if I had it for references and screeenshots
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke@gmail.com
> > <mailto:oslimoke@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:56 PM, SAMSON MAOSA <coolsam726@gmail.com
> > <mailto:coolsam726@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > on the same note, have we considered the possibility that some
> > schools may have computers that lack DVD readers (Just CD
> > readers)???? What happens in that case?
> >
> > That info was captured in the Questionare Sam.Thanks for the concern
> > though.For those that lack,we will just let them have the soft copy
> > in there secure machine..... or what are your thoughts?
>
> --
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> Manuel Schneider
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