<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p dir="ltr">Indeed. Bobby and I were talking to a guy (Ken something from Kenya) who was talking about the <a href="http://www.brck.com/">http://www.brck.com/</a> as a kind of ‘webmaker-in-a-box’.</p><div>—da</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Pomax <<a href="mailto:michiel@mozillafoundation.org">michiel@mozillafoundation.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I was thinking about how to get webmaker to a wider audience earlier <br>today, and got thinking about the power of the raspberry pi. Now I have <br>an idea, but I have no idea how feasible it is, so here goes:<br><br>A cheap webmaker kit with a Raspberry pi, a memory card preloaded with <br>a fully autonomous webmaker suite, so that when you turn on the <br>raspberry pi (which is just "hook it up to a power supply) it starts up <br>and automatically runs the webmaker suite, using the "forever" task <br>runner - which means that if files are changed, whichever app the file <br>was for is automatically restarted.<br><br>This would have noxmox, local persona, etc. and can even be given a <br>little utility that runs with admin rights to change the .host file so <br>that local publishing with user subdomains works.<br><br>We could get these to people in rural "wherever", and if they have <br>electricity and something that acts as I/O (screen/keyboard/mouse, <br>latter two of which are cheap), they can start learning webstuff. <br>Perhaps even take it a step further and create ad hoc networks at <br>meetups. Because why wait for the internet to come to you? Make that <br>stuff happen.<br><br>If we preconfigured it with an "our stuff" copy of the makeapi and <br>elasticsearch index, people would even have access to all our starter <br>kits, teaching kits, etc. etc. despite not having any internet <br>connectivity when they play around with it. In a world where everyone <br>from Bill Gates to the rice farmer in rural Vietnam has a cellphone, but <br>only those in rich countries have ready access to internet, simply <br>bringing a part of the internet to people instead of forcing them to <br>come to the internet might be worthwhile. And, given cellphones, even <br>popcorn would still make sense (video from phone, copy to pi, link local <br>video).<br><br>I'm basically dreaming of a world where people can have meetups with <br>electricity, but not internet, make cool shit collectively, and then <br>scooter to the nearest internet cafe maybe once a month, if that, to put <br>it all on the "real" internet for the rest of the world to see, and come <br>back a month later to (hopefully) smile at the world's response to what <br>they made.<br><br>This might be completely out of scope, but I'd love to brainstorm about <br>the feasibility of this.<br><br>- Pomax<br><hr><br>Webmaker-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Webmaker-dev@mozilla.org">Webmaker-dev@mozilla.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker-dev">https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker-dev</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>