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Rosetta Phone: Sharing a library of knowledge and educational apps with offline communities #85

Open samuk opened 5 years ago

samuk commented 5 years ago

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Description

[//]: # "======================= Rosetta Phone: Sharing a library of knowledge and educational apps with offline communities using the Android device they already own. Developing social enterprise models to market Rosetta Phones & Rosetta home devices.

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What are we working on during the do-a-thon? What kinds of support do we need?

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If you are a project lead, and you already have clear ways people can contribute it might be worth linking to them here. Language: I speak English, French & Arabic translation skill would be particularly useful.

This is a remote project I'm not 'in the room' in Berlin.

There are a couple of tasks we could tackle depending on the skills and enthusiasm.

=================== Making a .zim file of the boundless courses.

This would involve

a) Install https://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html

b) run htrack on each of the courses listed here https://courses.lumenlearning.com/catalog/boundlesscourses & delete large log file that is created in the content

c) Create .zim (I've never successfully done this bit before) http://www.openzim.org/wiki/Zimwriterfs_instructions

Tools needed: On Linux https://github.com/openzim/zimwriterfs On Windows/Mac: -Install Virtualbox https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.20/VirtualBox-5.2.20-125813-Win.exe

c) Test the file in https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile/

d) Upload the .zim file to https://github.com/openzim/zim-requests/issues/115

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Another thing that would be useful is just writing some coherent words around why this project is a good idea

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Translating the text on www.rosettaphone.org into French or Arabic

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Setting up a https://opencollective.com donation page for the project

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Setting up a Facebook group & Inviting people to join it

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Email any grant funders you know personally and ask them to get in touch if they are interested in funding it

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Making .zim files of any of the other proposed content: https://calc.disroot.org/0d5f8o2eubdi which doesn't already have a .zim

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If you tweet https://twitter.com/PhoneRosetta I'll get a notification on my phone and try and get back to you quickly.

If you send me email sam bristolwireless.net I'll reply within an hour or two

If you send me a message onhttps://www.manyver.se/ to sam_uk_phone I'll be delighted

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JosephMcArthur commented 5 years ago

@Dorema, Ayo, is looking for you :) So please let them know where are you asap.

samuk commented 5 years ago

Hi I'm in England at the moment :(

Happy to connect online though..

Either Twitter, @phonerosetta

Or can do video too: https://meet.jit.si/doathon (https://meet.jit.si/doathon)

Thanks

Sam November 4, 2018 4:34 PM, "Joseph McArthur" <notifications@github.com (mailto:%22Joseph%20McArthur%22%20notifications@github.com)> wrote: @Dorema (https://github.com/Dorema) is looking for you :) So please let them know where are you asap. 

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samuk commented 5 years ago

Hi if anyone is interested in helping with this I just found this online tool that makes Zim creation easy: https://zip2zim.openzim.org/