Offline Projects/Volunteer Page

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Overview

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As with all the Wikimedia projects, the community is what provides the necessary energy and talent driving the Offline project. Please enter your general contact information in the table below so that you can find other volunteers who may be interested in your same geography, language, or tool development!

Meet-ups

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Proposed meet-up: 2012 Offline Workshop

Mailing lists

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Conversations about the offline projects happen across a variety of mailing lists. Choose the ones that most interest you!

Offline Wikipedia mailing list: This list is a place where technologists and practitioners meet to discuss the best approaches for using -- as readers or as participants -- Wikimedia projects and other MediaWiki-powered sites without Internet connectivity.
Kiwix Developer list: Interested in doing some development for the Offline Reader Kiwix? Join this list!
Kiwix Testing list: Love to file bugs? Want to help with testing the latest and greatest version of the Offline WIkipedia reader Kiwix? Here's your chance to be informed with updates and pleas for help!

Table of volunteers

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Enter your location (city / area) and any way in which a fellow volunteer can contact you to take a copy or invite you to a school they know. Put your contact number / email / twitter / facebook url / wikia username / anything by which you can be contacted within a reasonable amount of time:

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Username	Offline language	Country	City	Contact	Primary interest
Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Gerald Shields	English	USA	Washington, DC	geraldshields11 [at] gmail {dot} com	Send the offline Wiki into space
Alex Wafula	Swahili / English	Kenya	Nairobi	xelawafs [at] yahoo [dot] com	Development and distribution of offline software / content
Isaac Kosgei	Swahili / English	Kenya	Nairobi	kips8505izo [at] gmail [dot] com	Development and distribution of offline software / content
Samson Maosa	English & Swahili	Kenya	Nairobi & Kisii	coolsam726 [at] gmail [dot] com	Distribution of Offline Content & Spreading word
Anirudh Bhati	English, Hindi and Gujarati	India	Gujarat	anirudh [at] wikimedia [dot] in	Public outreach, distribution, volunteer co-ordination
Srikant Kedia	English, Hindi & Oriya	India	Orissa	wikiodisha1 [at] gmail [dot] com	Distribution of Offline Content, Public Outreach, volunteer co-ordination, etc...
Nikhil Sheth	English, Hindi and Marathi	India	Pune	nikhil [dot] js [at] gmail [dot] com	Offline educational software and content, Public outreach, volunteer co-ordination
Vaibhav Jain	English, Hindi and Sanskrit	India	Delhi	vibhijain [at] yahoo [dot] in	Public outreach and Volunteer Coordination
Kelson	English, German and French	Switzerland	Zurich	kelson [at] kiwix.org	Tech. and deployment
Adam Wight	English, Spanish	USA	SF Bay	adamw [at] ludd [dot] net	Programming; offline read-write access
AshLin	English	India	Pune	ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in	Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools
Stephen	English, Swahili, Kikuyu	Kenya	Nairobi	stevewanjau wikimedia.or.ke	Distribution of Offline Content and content development
Nkansah Rexford	English	Ghana	Ghana	nkansahrexford[at]gmail[dot]com	Distribution and Promoting Offline Content
C. Scott Ananian	English, Spanish, others	USA	Boston	http://cscott.net	Offline read/edit/share for en:OLPC
Florence Devouard	French, English	France	Marseille	fdevouard [at] anthere [dot] org	Offline edit m:WikiFundi
James Heilman (April 2018)	English mostly	Canada	Cranbrook	jmh649 [at] gmail [dot] com	Internet-in-a-Box / Offline medical apps
Gabriel Thullen	French mostly	Senegal	Switzerland	gabriel [at] thullen [dot] com	Internet-in-a-Box / Kiwix in schools

Ways to help

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Interested in becoming part of the Offline Community? There are many ways you could help!

Publicity

Give media attention
Spread the word (e.g., send out this Wiki!)

Content creation

Create useful sets of materials relevant for people to download and distribute in offline formats.
For example, volunteer in creating the Offline Wikipedia for India Schools!

Development

Join a mailing list and test the projects and fight the bugs!
Pick up some projects in the project pipeline

Distribution

e.g., a student from a college can download/copy and put the encyclopedia on the institute's LAN and proliferate it to everybody on the campus. Then groups of students can be formed to go to under-resourced schools in nearby areas and install it there.
See also Distribution needs

Funding

Sponsor CDs/DVDs/USB sticks for distribution
Sponsor developers to execute outstanding projects in the project pipeline

Develop partnerships

E.g., corporates for funding
E.g., government agencies for quick distribution
E.g., computer distributors