2024-02-16
Here are the notes about the weekly meeting of the Knowledge Standards Foundation.
Attendees
Shelly, Robert, John, Henry, Larry, Sergei, alex, Manon, Tim
Action Items
- Check out EnHub (everyone)
- Give circles.futo.org a try (everyone) (Apple, Android)
Summary
Sergei update
- ZWINode 1.3 released, twittered it
- EnHub used to test features
- EncycloBack hardware is slower but good enough for backup
- no problems with EncycloReader creating ZWI files
Added how to make ZWI files article to wiki
Henry update
Installing EncycloEngine
Discussion w/Sergei about using zwi_get
Discussion about ZWI files
Sergei: almost half of WP as ZWI files
Discussion about sync'ing EncycloReader & EncycloSearch & Oldpedia ZWI files
Discussion w/Shelly about EncycloEngine
ZWINode has code to create ZWI files and it's open source
Henry:
- Rewriting EncycloEngine in JavaScript
- Soon will have cmd line tool to create ZWI files
- The 22TB server in Sanger house is running Linux Mint
Tim update
- Met with a couple developers, trying to recruit them
- Fundraising
- Will be clearing the submissions queue to add to Encyclopedia Listing
Shelly update
Added 5TB hard drive to backup her aggregator
John update
- No new email
- Editing the wiki
- Reached out to Dan a month ago re. Minifeed but didn't hear back
Larry: Minifeed still on hold, need to raise more money for it, also takes project mgmt time
Shelly: working on a related open source solution in PHP standalone
Larry:
- Give circles.futo.org a try, iOS & Android apps
- Meant to be a Facebook replacement
John: like the official one https://element.io/
John: ZIM to ZWI converter for https://library.kiwix.org/#language=eng?
me: Could be done; would require splitting the ZIM into articles. ZIM is a book format.
Larry update
Newsletter
- We need a deadline for quarterly newsletter
- Want to encourage people to summarize their own news
- Let's try to update the wiki as we go
John: also pull from wiki Recent Changes
Glossary in wiki now
Fundraising planning, will visit FUTO, has other ideas
Discussion about crawling encyclopedias
John initiated discussion about how encyclosphere is different from Kiwix
Discussion about OEDP
Larry:
- Need to finish sw to convert OCR to HTML
- Current sw is too time-consuming