Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
Victor Grigas, 05/05/2013 06:27: My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids Now at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Aislinn_Dewey/Distribute_WikiReaders_to_Schools Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
Great initiative. Actually the first time I donated real money to a Wikimedia project... sort of. /Manuel Am 05.05.2013 06:27, schrieb Victor Grigas: My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
This is totally awesome! On 5 May 2013 09:46, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: Great initiative. Actually the first time I donated real money to a Wikimedia project... sort of. /Manuel Am 05.05.2013 06:27, schrieb Victor Grigas: My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
All the best, Victor! Abbas. Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: t...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
Hi Victor, hope you're well. I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money. I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is not that intuitive, though it's possible. Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt, elsewhere? The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it. let me know what you think Best regards Oona On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: All the best, Victor! Abbas. Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: t...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
hehehe, victor, you are cool. because its a private initiative you use your wikimedia mail account to advertise for it, in the video you make sure that everybody konws you work for wikimedia foundation? the price you give is interesting as well. on your money collection page you write the devices cost 25 usd. on amazon they sell it for 9 usd. the original price 5 years ago was 99 usd, where one could have a 29 usd subscription to get the contents updated. i do not have a problem with all of this. i like your work you do, i like the enthusiasm, i like that you guys do this voluntary. and i especially like that you are able to think big. but what really stroke me: you say you would not buy it. if you would not buy it, what makes you so sure that it will be of use for somebody else? for children who like to see pictures? probably not. for adults who will have smartphones in 2 years time? probably not as well. you might be interested in reading the report of the united nations environment program coming out of the E-Waste Africa Project: http://www.basel.int/Implementation/TechnicalAssistance/EWaste/EwasteAfricaProject/tabid/2546/Default.aspx?overlayId=ArtId-468 Africa has been undergoing rapid ICT transformation in recent years, attempting to bridge this divide by importing second-hand or used computers, mobile phones, and TVsets from developed countries. The countries of the region, however, lack the infrastructure and resources for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) arising when such imports reach their end-of-life. rupert. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
Hi everyone - Ok a few things that people have brought up here and elsewhere: 1 - the manufacturer has said to us that the devices can come pre-installed with whatever languages are already available : http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and that he would help with other language versions (from our dumps) if we communicated a need for it. I mentioned this specifically: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ 2 - AMAZON! - yes these are the retailers sitting on overstock, we plan to buy whatever is cheapest first (highest impact) -- and alot of people have supersaver shipping (user:Ashstar01 too) 3 - recycling: scroll to the bottom: http://thewikireader.com/ also the key in distribution will be to find the schools that could REALLY USE the devices, (so that they do not go to waste) so if anyone on this list knows schools, please share: wikireaders4k...@gmail.com http://wikireaders4kids.tumblr.com/suggest 4 - I hope i'm not creating any conflicts of interest by being a WMF staffer, please know - if i do cross some line let me know and i'll correct myself ASAP. I really mean this please contact me if you feel that there is any COI at all. 5 - also here is the .en village pump post from a few weeks ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Free_Distribution_of_WikiReaders_to_offline_schools_around_the_world.2C_funded_by_Kickstarter.com_or_Indiegogo.com 6 - we are also looking into contacting battery manufacturers and solar charger manufacturers to see if they would like the good press by donating a few of their chargers batteries to the schools that end up getting the wikireaders. Thanks for your interest everyone! As of me writing this, we are already at $505 USD and I expect that alot of people are away from their computers for the weekend and will see the campaign on Monday when they get to work. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Victor, hope you're well. I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money. I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is not that intuitive, though it's possible. Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt, elsewhere? The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it. let me know what you think Best regards Oona On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: All the best, Victor! Abbas. Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: t...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids (Victor Grigas)
Very cool idea! I just donated and tweeted about it. It's a really clever way to spread free knowledge to kids who need it the most. Well done, you guys! Fabrice On May 5, 2013, at 11:55 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 15:51:59 +0100 From: Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids Message-ID: CAAUQgdD9-y+AVX+VQLQcrVZWdd=3eyvba9d56a9xzrcrkrs...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 This is totally awesome! On 5 May 2013 09:46, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: Great initiative. Actually the first time I donated real money to a Wikimedia project... sort of. /Manuel Am 05.05.2013 06:27, schrieb Victor Grigas: My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Mailing list do Capítulo brasileiro da Wikimedia. wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids Message-ID: caexlhe8bmrryyx+trd0_14ijxzkanjrdnh9pv70hugka9-k...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:01:25 + From: Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids Message-ID: dub124-w346ef04b4a931c330a0e94ca...@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 All the best, Victor! Abbas. Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: t...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
I somewhat wrong message volunteer Rupert. Any initiative that promotes inclusive dissemination of knowledge should be shared and supported by the Wikimedia movement, and even more when it is crowned with the work done by volunteers of the Movement, in this case Wikipedia . Moreover, it is clear that there will be costs other than the purchase of equipment. And a note, any staff of any institution of the Wikimedia Movement, is also part of the Wikimedia Movement. Vitor, just an observation, I found completely wrong you put the conversation in the English Wikipedia, I think you could open this discussion on Meta, a common site throughout the Wikimedia Movement. See you, and congratulations for the initiative. On 5 May 2013 15:55, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone - Ok a few things that people have brought up here and elsewhere: 1 - the manufacturer has said to us that the devices can come pre-installed with whatever languages are already available : http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and that he would help with other language versions (from our dumps) if we communicated a need for it. I mentioned this specifically: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ 2 - AMAZON! - yes these are the retailers sitting on overstock, we plan to buy whatever is cheapest first (highest impact) -- and alot of people have supersaver shipping (user:Ashstar01 too) 3 - recycling: scroll to the bottom: http://thewikireader.com/ also the key in distribution will be to find the schools that could REALLY USE the devices, (so that they do not go to waste) so if anyone on this list knows schools, please share: wikireaders4k...@gmail.com http://wikireaders4kids.tumblr.com/suggest 4 - I hope i'm not creating any conflicts of interest by being a WMF staffer, please know - if i do cross some line let me know and i'll correct myself ASAP. I really mean this please contact me if you feel that there is any COI at all. 5 - also here is the .en village pump post from a few weeks ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Free_Distribution_of_WikiReaders_to_offline_schools_around_the_world.2C_funded_by_Kickstarter.com_or_Indiegogo.com 6 - we are also looking into contacting battery manufacturers and solar charger manufacturers to see if they would like the good press by donating a few of their chargers batteries to the schools that end up getting the wikireaders. Thanks for your interest everyone! As of me writing this, we are already at $505 USD and I expect that alot of people are away from their computers for the weekend and will see the campaign on Monday when they get to work. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Victor, hope you're well. I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money. I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is not that intuitive, though it's possible. Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt, elsewhere? The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it. let me know what you think Best regards Oona On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: All the best, Victor! Abbas. Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: t...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign
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Rodrigo - Thank you for pointing out the note about Meta. Does someone want to start a place on meta where the community can organize how to best get these devices where they need to go? I'd love to have some respected organizations interested Wikipedians helping out by the end of the week :) I also think that this is going to be a fun distribution thing because of all the places the wikireaders will be coming from going to. I think all the amazon ones are going to get bought -- but alot of those will need to be updated. We are also interested in finding solar battery charger manufacturers who would want to donate a few chargers so the wikireaders dont become bricks when their batteries are drained. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: I somewhat wrong message volunteer Rupert. Any initiative that promotes inclusive dissemination of knowledge should be shared and supported by the Wikimedia movement, and even more when it is crowned with the work done by volunteers of the Movement, in this case Wikipedia . Moreover, it is clear that there will be costs other than the purchase of equipment. And a note, any staff of any institution of the Wikimedia Movement, is also part of the Wikimedia Movement. Vitor, just an observation, I found completely wrong you put the conversation in the English Wikipedia, I think you could open this discussion on Meta, a common site throughout the Wikimedia Movement. See you, and congratulations for the initiative. On 5 May 2013 15:55, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone - Ok a few things that people have brought up here and elsewhere: 1 - the manufacturer has said to us that the devices can come pre-installed with whatever languages are already available : http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and that he would help with other language versions (from our dumps) if we communicated a need for it. I mentioned this specifically: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ 2 - AMAZON! - yes these are the retailers sitting on overstock, we plan to buy whatever is cheapest first (highest impact) -- and alot of people have supersaver shipping (user:Ashstar01 too) 3 - recycling: scroll to the bottom: http://thewikireader.com/ also the key in distribution will be to find the schools that could REALLY USE the devices, (so that they do not go to waste) so if anyone on this list knows schools, please share: wikireaders4k...@gmail.com http://wikireaders4kids.tumblr.com/suggest 4 - I hope i'm not creating any conflicts of interest by being a WMF staffer, please know - if i do cross some line let me know and i'll correct myself ASAP. I really mean this please contact me if you feel that there is any COI at all. 5 - also here is the .en village pump post from a few weeks ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Free_Distribution_of_WikiReaders_to_offline_schools_around_the_world.2C_funded_by_Kickstarter.com_or_Indiegogo.com 6 - we are also looking into contacting battery manufacturers and solar charger manufacturers to see if they would like the good press by donating a few of their chargers batteries to the schools that end up getting the wikireaders. Thanks for your interest everyone! As of me writing this, we are already at $505 USD and I expect that alot of people are away from their computers for the weekend and will see the campaign on Monday when they get to work. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Victor, hope you're well. I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money. I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is not that intuitive, though it's possible. Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt, elsewhere? The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it. let me know what you think Best regards Oona On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: All the best, Victor! Abbas. Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: t...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install
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Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
