Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day 2016 in Manchester (17th September)

[J. R. Haigh]

• Please could someone notify the list when this becomes available:
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_2016-09.zim.torrent

• If the above isn't yet available then please can someone download this 54GiB 
Zim file and bring it to the SFD event:
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_2016-05.zim.torrent

That is the vast bulk of what I haven't yet managed to obtain. I have English 
Gutenberg (40GiB), and would have also had English Wikipedia by now if it 
wasn't for Tuesday's lightning EMPs frazzling innocent telecommunications 
equipment. X-D
        Btw., I'll only be offering some files in other languages due to 
downsizing to 128GiB from my original idea. It turns out that 256GiB has only 
been around since May this year and currently only has 2 competitors, Integral 
and Samsung, in the market. Integral's offering is about 6.4× more expensive 
than the cheapest 128GiB MicroSD card that I've found, and Samsung's is about 
7.3× more expensive! Considering that 128GiB is a huge step up from what most 
people are used to having in their phones, I don't think that it'll disappoint 
at all – they'll still have the entirety of the world's biggest and best 
encyclopedia in English, /with pictures/; as well as tens of thousands of libre 
ebooks; Wiktionary in English (not only English words, explained in English); 
phrasebooks of the world's most spoken languages; Wikibooks (including the 
Haskell Wikibook ;-) ); most of these except Wikipedia /again/ in Welsh, 
French, Dutch, Spanish, and Lojban; and maps of Britain, its neighbouring 
countries, and perhaps a few other European countries, as well as SRTM 
elevation data to accompany those maps to show contour lines. That would fill a 
library, right? How many books are in a library?
        Please note, if you're interested in buying one of these (and all goes 
to plan), be sure to bring at least 60£ with you. I plan to sell them at that 
price, 30£ of which to go to the FSFE. I may discount some or all of the 30£ 
FSFE donation for those who have helped software freedom in other ways, but I'd 
encourage you to keep the donation if you can. I don't expect to sell all of 
the MicroSD cards at SFD, so I'll not be dropping the price simply because I 
have some left at the end of the day. ;-) By selling these cards, I'm hoping to 
raise about 500£ for the FSFE before FOSDEM. :-)

Best regards,
James R. Haigh.
P.s.: Alas! I've fixed my X60 Tablet tonight! Hooray!!! \o/ (And this is my 
first email sent from Claws Mail in nearly 3 months!)
P.p.s.: Less urgent details coming soon.
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At 2016-09-14Wed20:26:35+0100, Michael Dorrington sent:
> On 19/08/16 02:54, J. R. Haigh wrote:
> 
> > The files that I want to put on the MicroSD cards are at least:
> > /README(.html) (with a link to https://f-droid.org/ )
> > /Kiwix Zim data/ (~145GiB)
> > /Kiwix Zim data/en/ (~97GiB)  
> 
> > /osmand/ (~80GiB)
> > /osmand/World_basemap.obf (261MiB)
> > /osmand/… [all of Europe] (~20GiB)  
> 
> Could send links to the list, with a priority, so people can download
> them.  I could fairly easily download and bring stuff in the 10's GB
> range, what should I bring?
> 
> Regards,
> M.
> 
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