Crest 2022

This page summarizes the action plan for the Kiwix Hackathon Spring 2022.

Venue

Hackathon will take place in Crest in a big house from the 29th Mai to the 5th June 2022.

Logistic

DO NOT FORGET TO BRING AN EXTENSION CORD (and an adaptor if you are not joining for mainland Europe).

Goals

OLIP / OffSpot

• First working version of the base common | OS image Kelson (talk)
• First working version of kiwix-hotspot based on containers Kelson (talk)
• Discuss next steps and integration of the two solutions within kiwix-hotspot/cardshop. Kelson (talk)
• Discuss Storage Location of master/base image

Kiwix-Desktop

• Support Service-worker based ZIM files (from Zimit)
• Remove vue.js dependence (replace with native Qt) in library

Kiwix-JS

• Clarifiy situation around Zimit based ZIM files Kelson (talk)

Infrastructure

• Finish and deploy ZIM superseeder, see https://github.com/kiwix/container-images/issues/43 Kelson (talk)

Other

• Decide how to build java-libkiwix Kelson (talk)
• Complete content strategy Kelson (talk)
• Decide how to organize https://dev.kiwix.org Kelson (talk)
• Decide about the approach to solve the kiwix-serve widget challenge Kelson (talk)
• Discuss about inline javascript in ZIM files, CSP issues, and possible solutions Mossroy (talk)
• Decide how to handle catalog-only kiwix-serve
• Decide next steps for Khan Academy Kelson (talk)

Achievements

Offspot

• First milestone tickets
  • 1.0.0 milestone
• Initial build script working, with arm64 support
• CI/CD setup and deployed
• Discuss next steps and integration of the two solutions within kiwix-hotspot/cardshop
  • base-image to be built for armhf and arm64 on GithubActions
  • image-creator to take a JSON input (merge of cardshop configuration and OLIP descriptior) and outputs a final image with running containers
  • Image to allow several boot-time configuration: hostname, network, wifi, applications
  • OLIP to use an in-final-image step to complete OLIP setup using its custom behavior
  • Initial base-image and image-creator to be mostly developed by Kiwix within next two months, code being reviewed by OLIP to be merged in
• Discuss Storage Location of master/base image:
  • Releases to be stored at https://drive.offspot.it/base/
  • PR builds to be stored in https://s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.com/it-offspot-base-branches/ (S3 bucket at Wasabi)

Kiwix-JS

• Discussed situation around Zimit based ZIM files.
• Agreed to fix the 3 most used scrapers for inline CSP in a short delay.

libkiwix

• Discussed usage of zim-testing-suite in libkiwix
• Completed the multizim fulltext search and opensearch functionality.

Agenda

• Sunday afternoon: arrivals (suggested arrival time 5PM)
• Monday - Saturday: hackathon
• Sunday afternoon: departures (suggested departure time 3PM)

Attendees

Kiwix

• Emmanuel
• Levon
• Mossroy
• Matthieu
• Renaud
• Stephane

BSF

• Florian
• Julien
• Tom

Budget

• Hosting: House EUR 2'401.69 + Hotel CHF 74.00 + EUR 159.04
• Food: EUR 273.24 + EUR 53.91 + EUR 3.50
• Transportation: Plane CHF 890.60 + CHF 392.27 | Train(s): EUR 256.60 + CHF 86.70 + EUR 58.8 + CHF 52 + CHF 11.40 + CHF 30.63
• Varia / Goodies: EUR 151.44

TOTAL = approx. EUR 4'895.80