Old Meeting Notes

June 6th 2013

• Vision
  • Priorities
  • What it wants to become
  • Joel wants a way to direct his work
  • See website
  • UX goals
  • Software design
    • Keeping application logic seperate
  • Call to action
• Current

1. Wikipedia
2. Insturctional Videos
3. Maps
4. Software downloads
5. Ebooks

• Momentum
  • Project milestons
  • Soft deadlines
  • Meetings on a regular schedule
  • Orientations
  • Blog on website
• Orientation
  • Standalone artifacts
  • Quickstart/Kickstart
  • How you can help on website
  • Diagrams
    • Laymans overview
    • Systems diagram
  • Underlying technology and links
• Documentation organization
  • Testers to work through process
• Most documentation on data creation processes
  • Data curation
• Issues
  • label by subsystem
  • label by priority
  • assign milestones

June 22 2013

Minutes

• To be deployed in Pakistan
• To be included with OLPC School Server software
• Introduction to hardware systems systmes
• Discussion on INSTALL and small dataset
• Overview of file system ** Zim files - Kiwix index only not using server
• Eliminated full Gutenberg mirror ** Took their epubs converted to zipped HTML with images, because more consistently named than their own HTML files
• There is an existing browser based epub reader could possibly integrate
• Milestones
  • Get code into hands of OLPC volunteers circa July 8th, where they are putting together new version os school server
  • New version will start to be distributed to some of the schools already running school server
  • Goal is to distribute version of iiab for schools server
  • Feature freeze in early August
  • OLPC people doing cloning of drives
• Prioritzation of goals ** Labels of issues in github

Issues

• Storing dataset on FAT-32
• Syncing large dateset from remote server
• Speed it takes to copy from hd to hd
• Python xapian interface to kiwix indexes ** Existing xapian Python codes ** Needs interface
• Universal search function
• Need a centralized licenses page
• Need someone to interface with people requesting IIAB contact