People here may be interested in a Hackathon we're holding on August 13-18. right
after Wikimania, in Potsdam, New York (about 2.5 hours drive from Montreal). The focus is
on writing code to help produce offline collections of Wikipedia content and other
educational materials, mostly for use in schools. The main wiki page can be found at
http://OFF.NETWORK. We can probably help you with transportation and accommodation.
Some of the attendees will be there from groups such as Kiwix purely to write code.
Others focus on end-use and are from the non-profit/educational community, such as
Computers for Kids, Internet-in-a-box, KA Lite. These people will want to ensure that the
technical needs of the groups can be met, and that resources are shared. You can see the
sort of thing Internet-in-a-Box does in this recent article on
opensource.com:
https://opensource.com/article/17/5/internet-in-a-box-raspberry-pi
If you're interested in attending, it's probably best to contact me directly.
Thanks!
Martin A. Walker (walkerma on Wikipedia)
Professor of Chemistry, SUNY Potsdam
walkerma@potsdam.edu<mailto:walkerma@potsdam.edu>