Hi all, while I'm not sure there is room for a third session about offline Wikipedia, there might be some interesting things to do during the Hackathon.
Specifically, there is a lot more attention to "offline friendly" technologies like LoRa/Meshtastic, an inexpensive, long range wireless peer/mesh system of radios to communicate with text messaging at low bandwidth (1 kbps). This might be an interesting opportunity to see what types of offline Wikipedia services might be practical using these types of inexpensive devices. The good news is that LoRa uses unlicensed ISM bands depending on the locale, and does not requiring a license or any subscription fees. There are "international" devices that can use wireless spectrum appropriate for different countries, so this might be a good time to experiment or showcase these types of applications. Sample device: https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Card-Tracker-T1000-E-for-Meshtastic-p-5913.html Example BBS/service on LoRa: https://github.com/TheCommsChannel/TC2-BBS-mesh -Andrew _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
