[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 Released

[Adam Holt]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.3 is a big step forward allowing schools and
> clinics around the world to DIY their very own friendly digital libraries!
>
> IIAB 6.3 (or very recent pre-releases) have already been brought to Ghana,
> Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua and Malaysia -- while implementation
> work is currently ongoing for Lebanon and Guatemala.
>
> We're very honored that IIAB 6.3 is increasingly used in medical education
> (post-secondary and clinical contexts) as well as for children's primary
> and secondary education.
>
> Bonus: we kept our release cycle < 3 months and can hopefully make that
> even tighter still in coming months -- picking up the pace with incremental
> improvement directly driven by "fieldback" requests -- from dedicated
> education communities on almost every continent.
>
> Please see the Release Notes here, if you too want to build your own
> digital/community library:
>
>    https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.3-Release-Notes
>

FAQ #7 was just completely rewritten -- please see:
Is a quick installation possible?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#Is_a_quick_installation_possible.3F

( FAQ.IIAB.IO is a great way to learn about Internet-in-a-Box in
general...let us know where we can improve! )


>
>
> *Thanks all for your ongoing feedback as ~30 of us from the wider
> Internet-in-a-Box community meet mid-August in Montreal and Potsdam, NY for
> our http://OFF.NETWORK <http://OFF.NETWORK> Content Hackathon (in
> conjunction with Kiwix, Wikimedia & KA Lite / Learning Equality).  To push
> this much further afield ~ ya ain't seen nothing yet!  As new kinds of
> handheld community libraries quickly now blossom, that none of us 20th
> century folk ever imagined were even possible (-:--Unsung Heroes of OLPC,
> interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org <http://unleashkids.org> ! *
>
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