Projects

The Kiwix volunteers program offers motivated and talented people ways to work for Kiwix during a limited time. Contributors can speak English, French, or German. Technical volunteers should know JavaScript, CSS, or other web languages, or C++.

Testing platform
We need a solution to test automatically Kiwix. We have currently nothing... so we start from scratch.!

Wikipublish
Create a publication platform, a Web site online similar to itunes which would provide the list of available contents to download in ZIM, EPUB, .... also offer to see the book before downloading it.


 * Wants to know more...
 * Add support of EPUB in Kiwix

OSM
Make a proof of concept of a ZIM file providing a map using OSM data and a tool like openLayer.

Improve P2P support

 * Fix Mirrorbrain to integrate torrent links in mirrorbrain
 * Fix Mirrorbrain to support fallback torrent trackers in .torrent files
 * Add a way to exchange library and content on a local network (for example, using "bonjour" & Bittorrent DHT)

Ambassador Program
Create an ambassador program. Ambassadors would be special people especially aware about Kiwix and able to help others:
 * Spread contents
 * Makes conferences
 * Makes advertisement
 * Local representative

To do that, we should develop a set of tools:
 * Advertisement Package
 * Ambassador program definition
 * Map base on Ushahidi to locate them

Starter Kit (Assigned)
Perhaps a nice kit would help. You know, like for organizing Linux installation parties[1] or Mozilla's event kits[2] etc., that encourages people, and provides step-by-step guidance and advice, to go and install Kiwix with a relevant offline Wikipedia file in their local no-Internet (or restricted/expensive Internet) school, college, community center, etc.

Would anyone be interested in working on that? WMF can contribute funding for some materials -- a Kiwix quick-start guide or cheatsheet, stickers, T-shirts. [1] http://ladypine.org/installfest.html, http://www.wikihow.com/Arrange-Linux-Install-Party [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Teach/WebmakingResources

Video
It would be great to have a video (screencast) presenting the software with its most important feature.

Here is a proposition:
 * Presentation slide of the video with slide and authors
 * Presentation of the context (Online Wikipedia put offline of a DVD)
 * Presentation of the principle of Kiwix and ZIM
 * Starting Kiwix
 * Open file
 * Indexing file
 * surfing
 * searching
 * special features: fullscreen, switch language, font bigger/smaller, random page, etc.
 * Finish (present the ZIM availables and how to download them)