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{{box-event|3rd Delevopers Meeting|'''vote!'''|In autumn 2010 the next [[Developer Meetings/2010-2|Developers Meeting]] comes up. Please participate and vote for your favourite date and location:
{{box-event|Wikimania 2011|August 2nd - 7th|During the Hacking Days (Aug. 2nd/3rd), prior to [http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania 2011] (Aug. 4th - 7th), we will have our 4th [[Developer Meetings/2011-1|Developers Meeting]].


* [http://www.doodle.com/sfr9nqadizb74e2d poll for date]
The Hacking Days / [http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania] / [[Developer Meetings/2011-1|Developers Meeting]] takes place in Haifa, Israel.
* [http://www.doodle.com/euambuyyhabs769m poll for location]


As always you don't have to pay for the meeting, accommodation and catering will be paid by our [[Budget 2010|sponsors]].
[http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania 2011 website].}}
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{{box-news|ZIM on Android / LZMA2 for Java|2010-09-17|Linterweb, the maker of the Okawix offline reader, has recently switched to ZIM and is currently working on an Android version of their software.
{{box-news|WikiOnBoard released to Ovi Store|2011-07-21|Get the WikiOnBoard ZIM Reader for your Symbian / Nokia device: http://store.ovi.com/content/148305


There is one problem: ZIM uses XZ / LZMA2 for compression while there is no such library available for Java. There are Java libs for the older LZMA and an SDK for XZ / LZMA2, but this currently only supports C/C++.
Source code is available here: http://github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard}}


Asaf Bartov from Wikimedia Israel, also a user of the ZIM technology, now started to port LZMA2 from C to Java:
{{box-news|Make ZIM files now easily with Collection Extension|2011-03-09|Today Wikimedia Foundation announced that the Collection Extension for MediaWiki, developed by PediaPress, is now able to create ZIM files. So you can easily select the content you want and just export a ZIM file.
* http://github.com/abartov/LZMA2-java
* [http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/ Announcement on the Technical Blog]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection/openZIM Extension page]}}


Feel free to contribute. Both the LZMA2 SDK and Asaf's Java port are open source software.}}
{{box-news|3rd Delevopers Meeting|2010-10-19|We had our [[Developer Meetings/2010-2|Developers Meeting]] on October 15th to 17th in Strasbourg.
 
Read our [[2010-10-19 Report Developers Meeting 2010|report]].}}
 
{{box-news|ZIM and LZMA2 for Java|2011-06-09| Arunesh Mathur is developing a ZIMReader in Java for developers who are interested in making Android and J2ME based offline readers. Find the code here:
* http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/zimreader-java/
 
Lasse Collin has ported LZMA2 to Java. You can download the source and the docs over here:
* http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html
 
Feel free to contribute. Lasse's code is open source software.}}


{{box-event|Wikimania 2010|July 9th - 11th, 2010|At the yearly international Wikimedia conference, this year in Gdansk (PL) there will be a long ''Wikipedia Offline'' workshop where openZIM is involved (Friday 9th, 2 - 6 pm).
{{box-event|Wikimania 2010|July 9th - 11th, 2010|At the yearly international Wikimedia conference, this year in Gdansk (PL) there will be a long ''Wikipedia Offline'' workshop where openZIM is involved (Friday 9th, 2 - 6 pm).
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