Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!

2011-07-11 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi Hisham, Some work on this regard had begun from our side (self & Tinu) but the process is turning out to slow & laborious. If any-one is to start working on this he need not start from scratch but can use the beginning we made here... http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:_Wikipedia_for_Schools/I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!

2011-07-11 Thread Jessie Wild
Yes - it would be great. Any further contacts on this, Arun? Based on this article, it sounds like they are keen to have educational content pre-downloaded onto the computer. We should definitely be bundled into this package. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Hisham Mundol wrote: > Yes, it would

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!

2011-06-23 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 15:35, Arun Ganesh wrote: > There's a slightly more nuttier scheme brewing in the south, where 900,000 > laptops are going to be distributed to students next year [1]. Let me see if > i can access someone in the TN govt regarding this. > Tamil Wiktionary(Also 10th largest

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!

2011-06-23 Thread Hisham Mundol
Yes, it would be great if we could support this as well. Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter : @mundol On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > There's a slightly more nuttier scheme brewing in the south, where 900,0

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!

2011-06-23 Thread Arun Ganesh
There's a slightly more nuttier scheme brewing in the south, where 900,000 laptops are going to be distributed to students next year [1]. Let me see if i can access someone in the TN govt regarding this. -Arun [1] http://ibnlive.in.com/news/free-laptops-will-have-tn-logo-burnt-on-chips/160602-60-1

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!

2011-06-23 Thread Hisham Mundol
cross posting to Offline & Wikimedia-India. Hi I'm working on the Wikimedia Foundation's initiatives in India and I'm reaching out for help on a really exciting opportunity. Assam is a state in the North-East of India. The Government has an interesting scheme to give laptops to deserving st