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