Hi Asaf,
thanks a lot for your offer. I have to admit that I didn't realised it
the first time you mentioned it, even though I remember that you sent a
mail recently concerning RTL support.
As your budget is specific to fix this issue I don't want to add it into
the budget as it only holds a calculation for general things.
Instead we will have to think about what is needed to be done and then
find a process how to reach this goal. This process should then be
funded by WMIL.
I have to admit that I currently have no idea where there are problems
with LTR - I always thought of ZIM just being a container - it doesn't
process the data you put into it. SO if you put in LTR text you will get
out LTR text again.
What we would need though is a hebrew/arab/yiddish... stemmer for the
fulltext search index creation and of course support on the reader
application. But this is Kiwix (which as far as I know supports LTR
because it was used by MoulinWiki) or the webbrowser when using zimreader.
Maybe the right way of spending the WMIL budget would be to fly you into
the next Developer Meeting where this issue can be discussed and
hopefully solved. I really think we need a direct discussion between
you, Tommi and Emmanuel.
Anyway, let's discuss that during the Wikimedia Conference. I am looking
forward meeting you.
Greets,
Manuel
Am 23.03.2010 23:55, schrieb Asaf Bartov:
I may have mentioned this before, but I'll state it again:
Wikimedia Israel has set aside funds (on the order of $3000) to support
development of OpenZIM. We hope to encourage work on the specific
issues that still hamper successful deployment of right-to-left
Wikipedia (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Yiddish), and I was hoping to discuss
the specifics with Manuel and whoever else will be attending the
upcoming conference in Berlin.
Asaf
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Tommi Mäkitalo <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi again,
and also this is very good. It would be really great, if we can get
sponsorship for even a part for this. Then we can concentrate better
on our
work for openzim without paying for it ourself.
Tommi
Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 11:21:19 schrieb Manuel Schneider:
> Dear all,
>
> based on
> a) our first experience of 2009 and
> b) our plans for 2010 (as existing so far)
>
> I have made a budget plan for 2010.
>
> Last year we had a budget - mainly based on the estimated cost of a
> small Developers Meeting and the server cost - of 4000 CHF (~
2800 EUR).
> We got an extra 1000 CHF (~ 700 EUR) to produce the Wikipedia DVD for
> LinuxTag.
>
> As our team grew (which is great) and we see more opportunities to
> present ourselves to fully reach our potential I have made a more
> "professional" calculation.
> The biggest difference compared to last year are the Developer
Meetings.
> I have requested quotations from conference venues and used these
> figures for the budget and I calculated with 10 attendees, so these
> costs are about four times higher than 2009, when we made
everything on
> our own including catering and had a room in a nearby company for
free.
>
> I also added more events to participate such as Wikimedia Conference,
> LinuxTag (we were there 2009, but it was not in the budget) and
Wikimania.
>
> Please review the budget and make your comments. I need your
approval of
> it, so I can send it on to Wikimedia CH so we can hope to get the
money.
>
> If you have more ideas for sponsors (maybe the Wikimedia Foundation
> wants to cover part of it) please speak up now.
>
> A last comment:
> This budget is quite high, but my aim was to make it a "top
budget", so
> we calculate all possible costs but will always spend less money
than this.
>
> Here you go: http://openzim.org/Budget_2010
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Manuel
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