Zurich 2018

This page summarizes the action plan for the Kiwix Google Zürich Hackathon 2018.

Goals

Kiwix-js

• Stabilize and optimize the ServiceWorker mode, to try to make it the default mode (on platforms that support it). This mode should be much more sustainable in the long term.
• Improve performance by using WebAssembly (on platforms that support it) for the bzip2 decompression. Preliminary tests let us hope around 30% performance improvement.
• Investigate on compiling the libzim to WebAssembly. If it's technically possible, it would allow to benefit from all the features and optimizations of this library, without the need of re-implementing them. If the people from Google know this technology, it might be a topic where they would be helpful.

Method

~ 8 developers meet during a week to make a few steps forward.

Place

The hackathon will take place in Zürich, Switzerland, for 3 days @Google offices.

Agenda

• September 16th afternoon: arrivals (suggested arrival time 5PM)
• September 17th -> 23th: Kiwix hackathon (17th -> 19th @Google)
• September 23th afternoon: departures (suggested departure time 3PM)

People

• Emmanuel
• Isaac
• Joe
• Julian
• Mossroy
• Renaud

• Dattaz
• Rashiq
• Matthieu

Costs

• Accommodation: ~4500 CHF
• Travels: ~700 CHF (local)
• F&B: ~ 2500 CHF

-> ~