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As always you don't have to pay for the meeting, accommodation and catering will be paid by our [[Budget 2010|sponsors]]. | As always you don't have to pay for the meeting, accommodation and catering will be paid by our [[Budget 2010|sponsors]]. | ||
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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. | |||
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++. | |||
Asaf Bartov from Wikimedia Israel, also a user of the ZIM technology, now started to port LZMA2 from C to Java: | |||
* http://github.com/abartov/LZMA2-java | |||
Feel free to contribute. Both the LZMA2 SDK and Asaf's Java port are 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). | ||