With respect to Jorge's questions: 1) All devices are 128 Gb now 2) They ship with MDWiki and en Wikipedia at least. 3) Everyone who has received a device has also agreed to fill in a questionnaire at some point. Havn't gotten around to that bit yet. 4) I also collect what people want it for when they reach out. Answers vary from home schooling, to living on a boat, to time capsule, to hurricaine backup, to medical clinics in the developing world, to local libraries. 5) Most are going to the US but also some to Europe, Canada, and Australia. The rare device to the DRC, East Timor, and India.
James On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 11:15 AM <offline-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Offline-l mailing list submissions to > offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/offline-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ > > You can reach the person managing the list at > offline-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Offline-l digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Internet-in-a-Box (Jorge Vargas) > 2. Re: Internet-in-a-Box (Adam Holt) > 3. Re: Internet-in-a-Box (Samuel Klein) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 10:36:08 -0400 > From: Jorge Vargas <jvar...@wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > < > caf9zsxpept6bjnduf3ni95jks6sy3+0daz7nh_exprehs2+...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="000000000000ab5fcf05e57f635c" > > Hi James! So lovely to hear from you. > > Out of curiosity, can you share more about what latest build of the > internet in a box at estoy shipping? Where are they going and how did they > reached out? What content are you shipping them with and what memory > capacity do you have? > > Super interesting stuff!! Are you planning to get any feedback from these > users once they start testing and suing the devices? That would also be > really cool learning. > > Hug, > Jorge > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this > > month, having shipped 24 devices so far. > > > > As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD > each > > so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this will make > it > > easier for others to get into distribution. > > > > > > -- > > James Heilman > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > _______________________________________________ > > Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > -- > *Jorge Vargas* (he/him) > Director of Partnerships > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > M: (+1) 415.404.9536 > I work from Miami, USA. My time zone is UTC/GMT -4/-5. > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 3222 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 11:58:05 -0400 > From: Adam Holt <h...@unleashkids.org> > Subject: [Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAHaBuGd8fF7= > vpjozu9z-+m4cxeup+-fhdapsq60jfziycn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="000000000000ae1ce905e5808945" > > Long time no see Jorge (-: > > Others too are seeing a dramatic surge of interest in Internet-in-a-Box > this year, and especially in the past month. A lot of the recent interest > is among people wanting a "complete" English Wikipedia for > offline/survivalist purposes, as you can see from the 900,000+ views here: > https://www.tiktok.com/tag/internetinabox > > Another big trend is that microSD cards and various other kinds of SSD/HDD > drives have become *insanely cheap* (so even 1 TB Internet-in-a-Box's are > becoming much more common, which can hold more than 10 copies of English > Wikipedia, we're not in Kansas anymore!) Based on clear community patterns > (full copies of Wikipedia is almost always what every community wants) > we're encouraging people to include the complete Wikipedia in several > languages now (Spanish and French are always popular, among others). > > Hopefully Wikipedia's historical maps will be included in full detail > (right now ZIM files lose this high-resolution) in future too â > alongside OpenStreetMap, > and satellite photos that Internet-in-a-Box also includes, much like Google > Maps but with privacy built in !! > > A common endeavor among all these grassroots communities is to build up > very rich Internet-in-a-Box "Learning Bouquets" for home schoolers, > missionaries, NGO's and others (some very new demographics we did not see > in prior years, in countries rich and poor!) Certainly, English remains > very dominant for now. But in short: the surge is not just among "prepper" > survivalists FYI, as the above TikTok vids might suggest. > Internet-in-a-Box software being completely free and increasingly very easy > to install (after years of refinement, gets better every year!) is > definitely part of this spike, that predated the above TikTok videos â > > If you're interested in keeping up with these latest twists + turns in > various countries â i.e. keeping an eye on Internet-in-a-Box grassroots > community action in all countries (peacetime, wartime, rich, poor) as it > grows â these will be posted here increasingly in coming months: > https://twitter.com/internet_in_box > > Definitely we're entering a New Chapter. Many hard-working people have > come together to get us this far, and to see where this leads. Building > upon Emmanuel Engelhart's & many other *non-traditional* Wikipedia > volunteers' hard work bringing Wikipedia to completely new kinds of > communities~ đĒĢđ > > Keep in Touch! > Adam > > > *PS if you want to install Internet-in-a-Box yourself, on almost any old > laptop (or Raspberry Pi if you prefer!) do that here:* > > https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-8.0-Release-Notes > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 10:36 AM Jorge Vargas <jvar...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Hi James! So lovely to hear from you. > > > > Out of curiosity, can you share more about what latest build of the > > internet in a box at estoy shipping? Where are they going and how did > they > > reached out? What content are you shipping them with and what memory > > capacity do you have? > > > > Super interesting stuff!! Are you planning to get any feedback from these > > users once they start testing and suing the devices? That would also be > > really cool learning. > > > > Hug, > > Jorge > > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this > >> month, having shipped 24 devices so far. > >> > >> As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD > >> each so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this will > >> make it easier for others to get into distribution. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> James Heilman > >> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > >> > > -- > > *Jorge Vargas* (he/him) > > Director of Partnerships > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > M: (+1) 415.404.9536 > > I work from Miami, USA. My time zone is UTC/GMT -4/-5. > > _______________________________________________ > > Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 7333 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 13:14:57 -0400 > From: Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Offline-l] Re: Internet-in-a-Box > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAAtU9WL8unjfzgzBQUr9Q==_0nmqaacwGDd0JU-Z9FHLM-= > f...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="00000000000034200b05e5819c38" > > +1 to the increase, I appreciate your thinking about that aspect of > robustness. Thanks for sharing! > > The world of local 1TB iiab users is also very interesting for the > implications for regional caching of different versions of essential > information w/ sporadic high-bandwidth exchanges (sneakernet / Paquete > Semanal style). That also remains the most reliable way to get updates > inside censorship regimes. > > Looking forward to a future w sharably-named bouquets and bouquet-level > diffs and updates. > > đđđđ > > On Fri., Aug. 5, 2022, 11:58 a.m. Adam Holt, <h...@unleashkids.org> wrote: > > > Long time no see Jorge (-: > > > > Others too are seeing a dramatic surge of interest in Internet-in-a-Box > > this year, and especially in the past month. A lot of the recent > interest > > is among people wanting a "complete" English Wikipedia for > > offline/survivalist purposes, as you can see from the 900,000+ views > here: > > https://www.tiktok.com/tag/internetinabox > > > > Another big trend is that microSD cards and various other kinds of > SSD/HDD > > drives have become *insanely cheap* (so even 1 TB Internet-in-a-Box's are > > becoming much more common, which can hold more than 10 copies of English > > Wikipedia, we're not in Kansas anymore!) Based on clear community > patterns > > (full copies of Wikipedia is almost always what every community wants) > > we're encouraging people to include the complete Wikipedia in several > > languages now (Spanish and French are always popular, among others). > > > > Hopefully Wikipedia's historical maps will be included in full detail > > (right now ZIM files lose this high-resolution) in future too â > alongside OpenStreetMap, > > and satellite photos that Internet-in-a-Box also includes, much like > Google > > Maps but with privacy built in !! > > > > A common endeavor among all these grassroots communities is to build up > > very rich Internet-in-a-Box "Learning Bouquets" for home schoolers, > > missionaries, NGO's and others (some very new demographics we did not see > > in prior years, in countries rich and poor!) Certainly, English remains > > very dominant for now. But in short: the surge is not just among > "prepper" > > survivalists FYI, as the above TikTok vids might suggest. > > Internet-in-a-Box software being completely free and increasingly very > easy > > to install (after years of refinement, gets better every year!) is > > definitely part of this spike, that predated the above TikTok videos â > > > > If you're interested in keeping up with these latest twists + turns in > > various countries â i.e. keeping an eye on Internet-in-a-Box grassroots > > community action in all countries (peacetime, wartime, rich, poor) as it > > grows â these will be posted here increasingly in coming months: > > https://twitter.com/internet_in_box > > > > Definitely we're entering a New Chapter. Many hard-working people have > > come together to get us this far, and to see where this leads. Building > > upon Emmanuel Engelhart's & many other *non-traditional* Wikipedia > > volunteers' hard work bringing Wikipedia to completely new kinds of > > communities~ đĒĢđ > > > > Keep in Touch! > > Adam > > > > > > *PS if you want to install Internet-in-a-Box yourself, on almost any old > > laptop (or Raspberry Pi if you prefer!) do that here:* > > > > https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-8.0-Release-Notes > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 10:36 AM Jorge Vargas <jvar...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi James! So lovely to hear from you. > >> > >> Out of curiosity, can you share more about what latest build of the > >> internet in a box at estoy shipping? Where are they going and how did > they > >> reached out? What content are you shipping them with and what memory > >> capacity do you have? > >> > >> Super interesting stuff!! Are you planning to get any feedback from > these > >> users once they start testing and suing the devices? That would also be > >> really cool learning. > >> > >> Hug, > >> Jorge > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> We have seen a significant increase in interest in these devices this > >>> month, having shipped 24 devices so far. > >>> > >>> As such we are increasing what we charge to distribute them to 50 USD > >>> each so we are not losing money on each device. Also hopefully this > will > >>> make it easier for others to get into distribution. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> James Heilman > >>> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> > >> -- > >> *Jorge Vargas* (he/him) > >> Director of Partnerships > >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > >> M: (+1) 415.404.9536 > >> I work from Miami, USA. My time zone is UTC/GMT -4/-5. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 8716 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Offline-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 10 > ****************************************** > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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