Hey Manuel,

Thanks for the clarification. Intererting stuff you guys have going on with Openzim.

I actualy wasn't aware you were involved in the project. You guys are doing an awesome job!

Alex.

On Wed Feb 23rd, 2011 12:02 AM PST Manuel Schneider wrote:

Hi,

On 23.02.2011 08:01, Alex Wafula wrote:

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With regards to Openzim and Kiwix, my take is that the Openzim project is mostly involved in the development of zim files while Kiwix is a reader of zim files.

yes - Kiwix uses zimlib by openZIM to access the ZIM files.

openZIM has just developped the ZIM file format and a few tools and libraries, so readers or publishers can use the ZIM format easily.

openZIM does not make ZIM files and the only zimreader application we have is a command line tool that acts as a webserver - more of an example application. As the idea behind openZIM is all free and open source / standards everyone can look at the code, built upon it etc. Making it a standard means that all offline readers could use the same file format and therefore can freely exchange content (ZIM files) and reader applications (ZIM readers), instead of every offline application having its own, proprietary format.

That's our mission: http://openzim.org/Mission_of_openZIM

Kiwix is one of the users of openZIM, a ZIM reader: http://openzim.org/ZIM_Readers

Emmanuel from Kiwix is currently also the biggest ZIM file creator: http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/

/Manuel

Regards Manuel Schneider

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