[IIAB] [KIWIX][INTERNET-IN-A-BOX] Nice project!

[Braddock]

Hey great!  I've been meaning to reach out to you Kiwix guys.  I think 
we chatted on IRC a couple weeks ago briefly (dock).

I have been particularly interested in making a ZIM of gutenberg. We 
have our own early stage gutenberg browser now, but ZIM and kiwix just 
seems like the natural place for it, and I'm sure it would be useful to 
others.

We are in a mad rush right now because Tony Anderson of OLPC wants to 
take what we have to Africa in less than two weeks.  He has been using 
kiwix for OLPC server deployments to Africa and Nepal, as you may know.

The Gutenberg project is a real mess.  But they already have scripts to 
generate epub format output for all their books, and I thought the 
simplest path to a Gutenberg ZIM would be to Calibre the epub back into 
HTML with scaled images contained in ZIM.

However, I haven't been able to find any documentation on creating ZIM 
files from HTML.  Do you have a starting place for me?

Another thing we really need is combined search of all document ZIMs 
under Kiwix control with language filters.  This is perhaps something we 
could contribute back to kiwix if it doesn't already exist.

I haven't dug deep into the kiwix code, but will be soon.

I am CC'ing our mailing list (there are about six of us).  You are also 
welcome to join.
http://sgvhak.org/mailman/listinfo/iiab

-braddock


On 03/26/2013 04:27 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:
> Dear Braddock
>
> I discovered (almost) by chance your project Internet-in-a-box on 
> Github. I'm the creator of Kiwix and I'm interested in any content 
> which is available offline in an HTML format.
>
> I was really happy to see that you have started to write scripts to do 
> that with many educational contents, in particular the Gutemberg 
> library. The reason is that this is pretty easy for us to build the 
> ZIM file corresponding to a directory with static HTML files.
>
> I see you are at the beginning of this effort and wanted to give you 
> my best encouragements to continue. As soon as you have something 
> really working, I would love to do the corresponding ZIM files, spread 
> and advert them.
>
> Kind regards
> Emmanuel Engelhart