Comments on: A small wedding gift

By: German Ulloa

German Ulloa — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:20:55 +0000

Is this thing of the reader project still on the move? Isthe reade thi9ng for the argentinian gov’ t educ.ar site? We have some time at disposal… so….

By: A Masilamani

A Masilamani — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:43:26 +0000

Indeed it is a very good idea to take the benefits of wikipedia to visually impaired persons. AIDAT NGO is willing to collaborate with Wikipedia organization. It will be a great honour, in case Mr. Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia organization agree to donate a computer or two with braille key board for physcially challenged persons. Second point is that the number of trained persons to teach braille computer typing and operation, take the benefits of wikipedia to visually impaired persons is very less. We can focus on creating trained persons for helping the poor physically challenged fellow human beings.
A. Masilamani
All India Dr Ambedkar Trust

By: Florencia

Florencia — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:50:30 +0000

Dear Jimmy Wales:

First of all, you have a wonderfull idea about the wedding gift!
I am Florencia Rodriguez Bensi, an argentinian business management student and I am putting in contact with you as a member of the academic area of the VII Argentinian Congress of Industrial Engineering Students and XIX Latin American Congress of Industrial Engineering Students. The congresses are taking place in Buenos Aires (Argentina), from 6th to 10th October. I contact you in order to invite you to be part of the congresses as disertant.
The aim of both congresses is to generate the integration of Latin American students under an excellence academic concept, promoting the comprommise of the students with the society through speeches of professional and cultural referents.
We, students, are organizing a congress for students, where more than 2000 students from all Latin America are going to discuss about the role of the engineer in society.
I will be waiting for your answer to put in contact with you or with who you designate. Finally, I apologize for my poor English.
Yours sincerely,

By: wogga

wogga — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:14:34 +0000

dvds are neat if they can be popped in standard dvd players and used that way with a TV (most have them).

On the other hand, for ONPC (netbook!) how about moving wikipedia to memory sticks? USB Memory sticks are getting cheaper and cheaper and are getting larger than DVDs so they can support pictures and wikipedia multimedia.

How about placing a little application, which when plugged into the USB port on a pc will start it up to show wikipedia – and if a connection is available download the latest and greatest of new wikipedia material.

Then this memory stick can be used as a living wikipedia by gathering wikipedia when available and presenting it when not in a place with internet. I suppose a little application could be on the stick which would make the dvd burn process really easy too for those who have/need DVDs.

By: Julian T Rowe

Julian T Rowe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:24:49 +0000

Educar looks an interesting project.
What’s the state of wkipedia and its fundraising campaign? What are the timescales? What happens if you don’t reach USD$7.5m target?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:04:30 +0000

i realized i made the internet connection sound like a tower. it’s not a tower. it’s just a small hub that sits on top of a building (let’s say a one story tall school) and gets internet connectivity from a satellite/tower, then redistributes that connectivity to any other hubs set up around the town. hope that point of clarification helps. would someone be willing to contact me about this? do you think it might help Martin get what he’s looking for for these schools? thanks…

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +0000

i liked this article a lot… it’s a wedding gift :) and it’s socially conscious :)

i really wish i could help more with the specifics of developing such an ISO file / dvd, but alas, i am quite unfamiliar with that realm of development.

in the meantime, is there a way to help get the ball rolling on providing internet access for these schools and their villages? some socially conscious people i work with at MIT are developing internet connectivity that also eliminates the need for pre-existing wires or antennas. it would be a low cost direct satellite/tower feed that acts as a hub and re distributor of internet connectivity for the surrounding area. we could probably find a way to fly them out there and implement such technology at one of these schools?

By: Dana S.

Dana S. — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:07:12 +0000

Hi,

First of all it’s Mazel Tov and not how you worte.
Secondly, when you get to hebrew I would like to help.
Hava Nagila..
Dana

By: Jay M

Jay M — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:24:23 +0000

Decent enough, please let us know if we can help with the development part of any such tool.

Thanks and good luck.
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Jay M
Soofi Group.

By: Pascal Martin

Pascal Martin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:41:18 +0000

Okawix will use as soon as possible ZIM Format also.
Pm27