On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Kim Tucker wrote: (mailing list copied)
Hi Andy, How is everything?
Lets start with the big questions :-) Working currently on an easily installable "wizzy server" that does email in an occasionally-connected location. Mostly via dialup these days, but I hope via USB memory stick.
Are you by any chance going to WCCE? (we have exhibition space and a demo slot).
Looking at the dates, no :-(
We are preparing a box of CDs to distribute and considered including extracts of Wikipedia.
Do you have a subset which would fit on one or at most 2 CDs which could be distributed without risk of bad content inside? - and ideally relevant content which would be of use even to people in Africa?
I carry wikipedia around on an external hard drive, for installation at schools.
Capacity quickly wizzed through a DVD last year ..
I have been deleting my 2004 copies (which would fit your criteria) - maybe I shouldn't. However, old dumps are fine (just as good as today's dumps, I didn't read the old one yet).
I think the 'bad content' (and 2 CD) criteria could be easily satisfied with a text-only recent dump.
Text-only carries everything, but lacks pizazz (and porn).
But that is what I recommend. Any others should be sent to Kim directly.
Cheers, Andy!