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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:
- Migrate to XR20, in particular for OSX and Sugar
- Fix the retina bug on OSX
- 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/aboslute 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
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.