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KEYWORDS: alternative publishing, offline cloud, developing world education, medical health informatics, web scraping, Sneakernet, mesh networking, peer-to-peer file sharing, peer production, mass collaboration, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, ZIM files, zines, Samizdat, community publishing, library rights, creative commons, copyright, copyleft, open access, free press, freedom of speech, FOIA, CDN, CMS, DRM, intellectual property, fair use, hacktivism, underground press, citizen journalism, civic resilience, grassroots democracy.
KEYWORDS: alternative publishing, offline cloud, developing world education, medical health informatics, web scraping, Sneakernet, mesh networking, peer-to-peer file sharing, peer production, mass collaboration, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, ZIM files, zines, Samizdat, community publishing, library rights, creative commons, copyright, copyleft, open access, free press, freedom of speech, FOIA, CDN, CMS, DRM, intellectual property, fair use, hacktivism, underground press, citizen journalism, civic resilience, grassroots democracy.


'''We welcome backend engineers as well as UX designers, content matter experts as well as experienced open access publishers.  We just ask that everyone spend all 5 nights in Potsdam, NY, immediately following [https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme Wikimania 2017] in Montreal (the prior week, with [https://debconf17.debconf.org/ DebConf17] also in Montreal then!) so that each and all of our 4 hack days and evening hospitality plans are relaxed & productive!  In short: [[#Transportation|arrive in Potsdam, NY late Sunday Aug 13, and leave Potsdam, NY Friday Aug 18 (2+ hour drive to Montreal's airport).]]
'''We welcome backend engineers as well as UX designers, content matter experts as well as experienced open access publishers.  We just ask that everyone spend all 5 nights in Potsdam, NY, immediately following [https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme Wikimania 2017] in Montreal (the prior week, with [https://debconf17.debconf.org/ DebConf17] also in Montreal then!) so that each and all of our 4 hack days and evening hospitality plans are relaxed & productive!  In short: [[#Transportation|arrive in Potsdam, NY late Sunday Aug 13, and leave Potsdam, NY Friday Aug 18 (2+ hour drive to Montreal's airport).]]'''


Your departing flight should leave Friday afternoon or evening (Aug 18) from Montreal's airport (YUL).  <u>Flights departing morning will generally NOT be possible, given vans/vehicles take 2+ hours to drive from Potsdam to Montreal's airport, with delays being common while entering Canada by road!</u>
Your departing flight should leave Friday afternoon or evening (Aug 18) from Montreal's airport (YUL).  <u>Flights departing morning will generally NOT be possible, given vans/vehicles take 2+ hours to drive from Potsdam to Montreal's airport, with delays being common while entering Canada by road!</u>
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* [https://opensource.com/article/16/12/interview-kids-on-computers Avni Khatri], Kids on Computers, President (Mexico)
* [https://opensource.com/article/16/12/interview-kids-on-computers Avni Khatri], Kids on Computers, President (Mexico)
* [http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board Douglas Scott] strongly recommends these 3, working on offline education/Wikipedia:
* [http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board Douglas Scott] strongly recommends these 3, working on offline education/Wikipedia:
** [http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Wikimania_2018_team#Michael_Graaf Michael Graaf]? (South Africa) - works on [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi/en WikiFundi], looking for sponsorship to get to Canada/USA or participate remotely
** [http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Wikimania_2018_team#Michael_Graaf Michael Graaf] (South Africa) - deploys [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi/en WikiFundi] in South African schools, attending Wikimania.
** Andy Rabagliati? (South Africa)
** Andy Rabagliati? (South Africa)
** Ian Gilfillan? (South Africa)
** Ian Gilfillan? (South Africa)

Revision as of 13:25, 22 May 2017

http://OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

What is it? Four full days of hacking Aug 14, 15, 16, 17 in Potsdam, NY, right after Wikipedia's annual conference in nearby Montreal (Wikimania 2017) towards the "offlining" aims outlined below! We are graciously being hosted by the State University of New York at Potsdam (SUNY Potsdam). This will be similar to Kiwix's Wikimania 2016 Hackathon in Esino Lario, Italy and the Spring 2017 Hackathon in Lyon, France but with more "meducational" packagers/implementers represented (Internet-in-a-Box, diverse medical/health publishers, in addition to Wikipedia technical architects etc!)

KEYWORDS: alternative publishing, offline cloud, developing world education, medical health informatics, web scraping, Sneakernet, mesh networking, peer-to-peer file sharing, peer production, mass collaboration, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, ZIM files, zines, Samizdat, community publishing, library rights, creative commons, copyright, copyleft, open access, free press, freedom of speech, FOIA, CDN, CMS, DRM, intellectual property, fair use, hacktivism, underground press, citizen journalism, civic resilience, grassroots democracy.

We welcome backend engineers as well as UX designers, content matter experts as well as experienced open access publishers. We just ask that everyone spend all 5 nights in Potsdam, NY, immediately following Wikimania 2017 in Montreal (the prior week, with DebConf17 also in Montreal then!) so that each and all of our 4 hack days and evening hospitality plans are relaxed & productive! In short: arrive in Potsdam, NY late Sunday Aug 13, and leave Potsdam, NY Friday Aug 18 (2+ hour drive to Montreal's airport).

Your departing flight should leave Friday afternoon or evening (Aug 18) from Montreal's airport (YUL). Flights departing morning will generally NOT be possible, given vans/vehicles take 2+ hours to drive from Potsdam to Montreal's airport, with delays being common while entering Canada by road!

Please contact holt @ laptop.org immediately if you are considering contributing & partaking, joining the Kiwix and Internet-in-a-Box team during these 4 intense and productive days/nights!

Transportation

Most all of us will drive the ~2.5 hours from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Potsdam, NY immediately after dinner on Sunday Aug 13, 2017, the moment Wikimania ends:

ARRIVAL: Vehicles will leave Montreal early evening Sunday Aug 13, 2017. Montreal airport (YUL) pickups might also be possible, as it's along the route to Potsdam, NY.

ARRIVAL ALTERNATIVES: Fly to Ottawa, Canada (YOW) and rent a car for the 1h40m drive to Potsdam, NY (verify that the car's legal/insured in the US!) Or if the border is too much hassle, fly to Syracuse, NY (SYR) and rent a car for the 2h30m drive to Potsdam, NY.

DEPARTURE: Vehicle(s) will arrive Montreal's airport (YUL) mid/late-morning Friday Aug 18, 2017. Airport's full name is "Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport".

DEPARTURE ALTERNATIVE: Some folks will take the 1:25PM Amtrak train from Plattsburgh, NY, which arrives ~8:50pm in New York City ($65-77) that evening of Friday Aug 18, 2017. Contact us immediately if you're considering this, as there are NO viable public transit options over the 1h45m rural route from Potsdam to Plattsburgh, but some kind of joint taxi may be possible among those who contribute to our very generous hosts!

WARNING: There is NO public transportation between Montreal and Potsdam, so you will likely need to rent a car at great expense over 5 days if you do not register early! Hence direct transportation has been arranged to and from Montreal (YUL) for those who register early. So far we have vehicles and drivers arranged for about 12 people, making this ~2.5 hour road trip and border crossing between Montreal and Potsdam very easy, but beware these vehicles WILL fill up :) Vans: 7-seater [Walker family], 10-seater [friend's family] and 12-seater [university] vans MIGHT be available, if attendees register several months in advance!

Please remember that a passport and US visa and Canadian visa are likely all required at the Canada/USA land crossing, particularly those ineligible for the US Visa Waiver Program. To be safe, we will arrange formal letters of invitation to all non-US citizens, from SUNY Potsdam (University) to avoid possible border crossing nightmares. Well in advance: Martin Walker may need your passport number, its expiry date and your date-of-birth here — so please have these handy, given that border protocols have changed dramatically in 2017.

People

Kiwix
Wikipedia & Wikimedia Foundation
Education / Internet-in-a-Box (formerly One Laptop Per Child's School Server Community Edition)
Wiki/Med
Other

<email holt @ laptop.org if you'd like to join, Thanks!>

Facilities & Accommodations

SUNY Potsdam (State University of New York) conference facility, nearby riverside pub/restaurant, and backyard BBQ thanks especially to Martin Walker's church!

Wi-Fi and hopefully also wireline Ethernet will be provided, so don't let our http://OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon name scare you too much (though offline dogfooding of all our community products IS encouraged!)

Contact Adam (holt @ laptop.org) to arrange hotel or hosting with friends. Martin Walker and his compadres in Potsdam, NY are greatly assisting to make this all possible, as you will see!

May 2nd Update: Martin & Adam will be working hard in coming days to summarize a tight list of the best accommodations prices & options. Draft Notes will emerge on Talk Page.

Agenda

Offliners R Us, bringing digital sanity (quality content, open infrastructure) to offline populations everywherever we can!

Please join our 11AM NYC Time voice calls on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month (contact: holt @ laptop.org) if you can help refine this arc of achievable opportunities in 2017, possibly including:

  • kiwix-serve on ARM? done
  • mwoffliner: specific enhancements? Include CScott's node-libzim for speed etc?
  • searching across ZIMs? ("imminent: approx April 2017")
  • Unified Catalog ("imminent: incl OPDS integration approx May 2017") for IdeasCube catalog of content (even if their catalog also indexes other things)
    • basis for Internet-in-a-Box rating/commenting of {Content Packs, ZIMs}. While ensuring http://download.kiwix.org/library/library.xml is offered long-term for both kinds of ZIMs (legacy ZIMs, and ZIMs that include the index within the file)
    • Internet-in-a-Box integration of ZIMs that include index (also support legacy ZIMs?)
  • WikiMed app (very high priority, many of us polishing w/ Doc James Heilman)
  • Mark Roden (with Reno McKenzie) ask about:
    • Monthly publication of Wikipedia data aggregation to generate stats, to generate offline connections/collections (stale since June 2016) done
    • FTP server (wp1.kiwix.org) not working: e.g. you can log in but can't do anything else done
  • ZimIT improvements? (very challenging, might require more Python expertise)
  • https://github.com/kiwix/zimfarm and similar Home Server peer community curation action, driven by Internet-in-a-Box regional global leaders
  • Rapid-Deploy Containerization norms & best practices, among our broadening global community
  • Offline Editing using git, WikiFundi & similar with Mark Hershberger, C. Scott Ananian & Michael Graaf
  • YOUR ITEM HERE

Achievements / Impact

Costs

This event is being organized entirely by volunteers, who began investing heavily in Potsdam, NY starting February 2017.

However there will be some small costs for transportation, food and accommodations.

Please contact holt @ laptop.org for details, Thanks!