Hong Kong 2013

Kiwix will be present at Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong. A few developers will be there and will try to work and advertise the project.

Dates

2-12 August

Hackathon

From the 2 to 7, developers will run a small hackathon and be present at the Wikimedia two tech. days. Goal is to release Kiwix 0.9rc3 at the end of the hackathon. The following things should be done:

~~Fix Buildbot and virtual machines for compilation~~.
~~Move Windows DVD launcher to the "other" git repository~~
~~Rewrite/improve (make modular) the paths to search for library XML in the Kiwix library module~~
~~Makes the storage in the profile compatibles with the portable version (data/[content/index/library])~~
~~Make the library working in both relative/absolute paths at the same time~~
~~Migrate pugixml/libzim/ctpp2 outside the kiwix source code (dependencies)~~
~~Better loading approach (ask for indexing) by clicking on the "load" library button~~
~~Make a portable version of Kiwix for OSX~~
Run the integrity check in a separate thread
~~Fix the crash on OSX and Windows with vietnamese articles~~
~~Make Data directory cutomizable~~
~~Fix Tabs with RTL UI~~

Posponed

Migrate to XR20, in particular for OSX and Sugar
Fix the retina bug on OSX
Move windows installer to the "other" git repository

Wikimania booth

Kiwix will have a permanent booth during Wikimania with:

Demonstration XO
Demonstration Table with Kiwix for Android
Kiwix-plug demonstration
Panneau présentation vertial
Banniere
Flyer
Dossier de présentation
Read-only USB disks

Presentations

We have propose two presentations.

Attendees

Ideas

kbox to provide matching table of boxes/builds
automatic start/stop of VMs before/after the builds for saving server resources
better cleanup of nightly folder (especially when we shut down buildbot for days)