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moulin - offline wikipedia for the developing world | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Author | Renaud Gaudin | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track | Free Content | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| License |  GNU Free Documentation License (details)
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| About the author | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Renaud Gaudin spent several months volunteering with Geekcorps Mali, an NGO focused on creating technology solutions for the developing world. With Geekcorps Mali he built custom linux-based information and communications technologies. He now works with Zirasun (a Bamako-based company) on bringing GNU/Linux to the desktops of West Africa. He is also the creator of moulin (http://moulinwiki.org), an offline distribution of Wikimedia projects targetting the third world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| An offline version of Wikipedia (and others Wikimedia projects) distributed to thousands of people in Africa and Middle-Est. The moulin project, born as a little script to bring more content to the 'Last Mile Initiative' project (Kiosks in remote rural areas of Mali) is now a widely used distribution in 8 languages including Arabic and Chinese. Learn how it works, how you can reuse it, who is actually using it and discuss how it should evolve. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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