<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I can't offer any direct help here (other than getting involved on codesign/design research things) but I think this is an amazing idea, Pomax. <br><br></div>Related: Am creating a series of paper prototype templates for folks who want to build Teaching Kits in low-fi settings, and Karen is also doing a Homago session (I believe this week) about the same topic. There definitely continues to be interest for such a thing, both from within staff and from the community itself!<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:20 PM, David Ascher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:da@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">da@mozillafoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><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/" target="_blank">http://www.brck.com/</a> as a kind of ‘webmaker-in-a-box’.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Pomax <<a href="mailto:michiel@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">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><div><div class="h5">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></div></div><div class="">Webmaker-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Webmaker-dev@mozilla.org" target="_blank">Webmaker-dev@mozilla.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker-dev" target="_blank">https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker-dev</a><br>
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