[SGVHAK] Internet in a Box Project: Anyone want to help?

[Joshua Haglund]

I recently setup an open street map server. It takes a lot of resources to
render the tiles from the map data, which takes a lot of resources just to
hold (like 300GB for the whole world). If you pre-rendered the tiles I
suspect it'd be even bigger.

Your project sounds cool tho! If there's a code repo, I'd like the link!




On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> For months I've been spending spare time on my Internet-in-a-Box project.
>  There is still a lot to do, and I was wondering if anyone wants to
> volunteer to help.
>
> The concept:
> Convert a Seagate GoFlex Satellite wireless harddrive (possibly solar
> powered) into a portable offline "internet" hotspot with most(?) of the
> world's Free knowledge and information.  Ship to schools and villages in
> the developing world (I have contacts from my old Wikipedia Reader
> project).  Accessible via low end smart phone, tablet, or PC.
>
> I am aiming to provide:
>
> -World-wide maps down to street level (OpenStreetMap)
>
> -Complete Wikipedia in a dozen languages
>
> -Tens of thousands of Project Gutenberg texts in multiple languages
>
> -Most of the world's Open Source software - complete Ubuntu repository
> mirrors including source code.
>
> -Hundreds of hours of Khan Academy instructional videos (CC)
>
> -More?
>
>
> Many things remain to be done, for example:
>
> -Evaluate and integrate a faster Wikipedia solution which can work well on
> the (slow) Satellite (128MB RAM ARM)
> -A mobile-friendly Project Gutenberg browser
> -A mobile-friendly video browser
> -A mobile-friendly Open Source software browser
> -Cross-domain search functionality and content indexing
> -More?
>
> Platform is a chroot ARM Debian on the Satellite using Python and Flask as
> glue.
>
> I'm determined to have this ready to go by April.
>
> thanks,
> -braddock
>
>
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