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                            Michael Starch <starchmd@umich.edu>;                            <br>
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                            Re: [SGVHAK] Internet in a Box Project: Anyone want to help?                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Braddock,<br><br></div>Hey sorry I did not respond right away. I would definitely love to help, if I can.<br><br></div><div>What are the next steps? What specifically can I do to help?<br></div><div>
<br></div>-Michael<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Doug <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dougvargas@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">dougvargas@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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 ;)<br>

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