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

Kiwix for Android

See Android.

New Web site

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We need to replace the current web site by a more simple and fancy one. The current one is too complicated for the average customer and mix informations for devs and end users. In addition it does not provide some features which are essentials like a simple an intuitive way to search over the ZIM library or a simple way to give a feedback (bug report or feature request). So there is a lot of improvement potential in both content and visuals.

This new one should be based on Mediawiki and we already have a design. The wiki part, like we know it, would be still accessible but not push on the front of the Web site. So we need someone we good PHP & Web languages knowledges to do that.

See also http://paulgu.com/wiki/Drop_Down_Menu_Series

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

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