Projects

The Kiwix volunteers program offers motivated and talented people ways to work for Kiwix during a limited time. Contributors can speak English, French, or German. Technical volunteers should know JavaScript, CSS, or other web languages, or C++.

Tasks

Testing platform

We need a solution to test automatically Kiwix. We have currently nothing... so we start from scratch.!

Wikipublish

Create a publication platform, a Web site online similar to itunes which would provide the list of available contents to download in ZIM, EPUB, .... also offer to see the book before downloading it.

• Wants to know more...
• Add support of EPUB in Kiwix

OSM

Make a proof of concept of a ZIM file providing a map using OSM data and a tool like openLayer.

Improve P2P support

• Fix Mirrorbrain to integrate torrent links in mirrorbrain
• Fix Mirrorbrain to support fallback torrent trackers in .torrent files
• Add a way to exchange library and content on a local network (for example, using "bonjour" & Bittorrent DHT)

Ambassador Program

Create an ambassador program. Ambassadors would be special people especially aware about Kiwix and able to help others:

• Spread contents
• Makes conferences
• Makes advertisement
• Local representative

To do that, we should develop a set of tools:

• Advertisement Package
• Ambassador program definition
• Map base on Ushahidi to locate them

Starter Kit (Assigned)

Perhaps a nice kit would help. You know, like for organizing Linux installation parties[1] or Mozilla's event kits[2] etc., that encourages people, and provides step-by-step guidance and advice, to go and install Kiwix with a relevant offline Wikipedia file in their local no-Internet (or restricted/expensive Internet) school, college, community center, etc.

Would anyone be interested in working on that? WMF can contribute funding for some materials -- a Kiwix quick-start guide or cheatsheet, stickers, T-shirts. [1] http://ladypine.org/installfest.html, http://www.wikihow.com/Arrange-Linux-Install-Party [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Teach/WebmakingResources

Video

It would be great to have a video (screencast) presenting the software with its most important feature.

Here is a proposition:

• Presentation slide of the video with slide and authors
• Presentation of the context (Online Wikipedia put offline of a DVD)
• Presentation of the principle of Kiwix and ZIM
• Starting Kiwix
• Open file
• Indexing file
• surfing
• searching
• special features: fullscreen, switch language, font bigger/smaller, random page, etc.
• Finish (present the ZIM availables and how to download them)

See also

• Participate
• Roadmap
• Development
• Kiwix bugs & feature requests
• WMF Offline project overview