[Foundation-l] iPhone App

[symode09 at hotmail.com]

mhm, I agree. I think apple would love a good wikimedia app - im sure they 
would be willing to give a bit away (not like apple are running low on 
money) - I haven't seen the app (ill visit the url now) but, if we had an 
app with easy dictionary functionality, incorporates news and makes it easy 
to search wikipedia (the three projects I see as being most important on the 
run) it would be a great start :)

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From: "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:26 PM
To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone App

> I'm wondering what you could do beyond Brion's little app when working 
> with
> Wikipedia. OTOH, it's maybe a tad cheeky to call it a "little app" because
> this looks like exactly the sort of thing that every iPhone owner would 
> want
> to have.
>
> Deni, I suggest you mail this idea on to Brion and Kul in the office to 
> mull
> over and perhaps get in touch with Apple about. Seeing how high-volume 
> this
> list has been of late they may well miss this suggestion. I would also aim
> higher than an iPhone for the prize, I do suspect that anyone playing with
> the SDK already has one so it might not be an appropriate incentive.
>
> In any case, Brion's blog entry certainly does pose an interesting 
> question
> about the appropriateness of getting involved with applications for a
> locked-down device. However, I think you have to be realistic that there
> will be numerous attempts to use the SDK in conjunction with Wikimedia
> projects and it would be better to have some say over that.
>
>
> Brian McNeil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Stephen 
> Bain
> Sent: 09 March 2008 07:31
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone App
>
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:25 PM,  <symode09 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Everyone! Since the iphone/ipod touch sdk kit has been release I have
> been thinking about a wikimedia app - I had the idea of wikimedia running 
> a
> comp for people to make the best wikimedia app...
>
> Brion read your mind, went back in time and created the first entry 
> already:
>
> http://leuksman.com/log/2008/03/08/wikipedia-local-search/
>
> He raised the interesting question at the end of the whether
> "Wikimedia's open-source software policies conflict with the various
> restrictions on software distribution for locked-down devices like the
> iPhone".
>
> -- 
> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
>
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