[Server-devel] non-internet OLPC and Wikipedia cut software

[Yama Ploskonka]

I am putting together a note on the why and wherefore not to expect 
OLPCs to be able to access the internet (it has to do with TCO and local 
politics), and how to keep going under the circumstances.

Do not hold your breath though, since my priority right now is to devise 
wikipedia extraction software. I want to contact other people on that 
specific track, since on my side I am merely at the pseudo-code level, 
and it would be better I do not waste time in work that has been 
completed already.  Likewise on software to aid in 
localization/translation.  I have been told most OLPC work is being done 
in PHP, which I do not know. I was planning to do Perl, or maybe I 
should take the plunge and learn PHP...  I'm getting old, the days I 
could pick up a language in a week are long gone. :-)

Anyway, I apologize for just jumping in, but the urgency of the matter 
at hand sort of presses for answers, and bypassing the usual lurker 
stage might be allowed.

Yama




Martin Langhoff escribió:
> Tony, Yama,
> 
> (unsure who wrote each bit ;-) )
> 
>>  My take is on the content side.  I am very happy someone will figure out
>>  the hardware & major software issues, like LAMP
>>  I am convinced that most OLPC deployments will happen with little or no
>>  actual access to the internet
> 
> I agree - a lot of them will have little or no access. Might get
> regular content updates in CD/DVD/usbflash format.
> 
>>  approach to hardware issues very interesting.  Yet the next problem I
>>  see is in content, content management, content access.  In my mind see a
>>  Wikipedia copy on the server, and a wiki that OLPC users can access and
> 
> it's definitely in the plan. First we need the software part, and it
> does include mediawiki. Other people in the project are looking at
> scripts to extract "cuts" of wikipedia and deploy them on the XS.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m
>