Hi,
We will have a quick discussion on details of the wikipedia on CD effort ( http://www.techmag.biz/dollar_one_encyclopedia ) today 6.30 pm at Coffee World, 17th Main Road, Koramangala (Near Canara Bank junction).
Looking forward to meeting you
Cheers Praveen A
PS: The discussion happened on the FOSS EDU mailing list can be accessed at http://lists.wikicities.com/pipermail/fci-l/2006-February/000073.html
The discussion thread : http://lists.wikicities.com/pipermail/fci-l/2006-February/thread.html
-- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
Hi,
We will have a quick discussion on details of the wikipedia on CD effort ( http://www.techmag.biz/dollar_one_encyclopedia ) today 6.30 pm at Coffee World, 17th Main Road, Koramangala (Near Canara Bank junction).
Looking forward to meeting you
Cheers Praveen A
PS: The discussion happened on the FOSS EDU mailing list can be accessed at http://lists.wikicities.com/pipermail/fci-l/2006-February/000073.html
The discussion thread : http://lists.wikicities.com/pipermail/fci-l/2006-February/thread.html
-- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) wrote:
Hi,
We will have a quick discussion on details of the wikipedia on CD effort ( http://www.techmag.biz/dollar_one_encyclopedia ) today 6.30 pm at Coffee World, 17th Main Road, Koramangala (Near Canara Bank junction).
Looking forward to meeting you
Good to know of your interest. a few lines about our project.
Our project, gnoware is heading towards a gnowledge distribution. (http://www.gnoware.org) One of the things that we already did is to harvest all the content of wikipedia, wordnet, and other free books and documentations available. we are currently working towards a cd/dvd distro. The software for viewing the content is based on gnowsys (a zope based knowledge base). This CD will work on any existing operating system. Gnowsys is interoperable system. Our first release will take about a month, which will contain more than 2 million objects. Slowly the need for gnowsys will be eliminated by using only the zodb file which can be used independent of zope. updating local servers with remote servers can be made by posting new versions of zodb. we are also exploring several alternative technologies, such as storing the data in a xfs based file system. The user interface will not be browser, but a gnowser, a specially crafted tool for building, querying and distributing gnowledge.
The idea of distributing it with software is to let people who are not connected, could also contribute on their local servers. When occassionally they get connected our syncing algorithm will update it from a central server. Syncing algorithm also is taking shape, and will be available after June.
We do need hackers support to make this happen. We want to make gnoware a knowledge distribution. this is to address the problem of developing and distributing content, while everyone is working mostly on software distributions. HBCSE is setting up a gnowledge lab to do it on an ongoing basis, so we have a committment to support this for a long time. we invite contributions from the community.
Nagarjuna
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प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A)