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

[Doug]

I'd definitely love to help - it sounds like a great humanitarian project and I'm sure there are going to be lots of fun technical challenges associated with accessing that much data. Plus with a little work it could easily morph into the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy ;)

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
>