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float:right;"><small>March 29th 2009</small></span></div> <p>The main interest of the General Assembly of Wikimedia CH held on Saturday March 28 at the National Library in Bern was the election of a new committee. With the withdrawal of President Michael Bimmler, Treasurer Robin Schwab and Nando St枚cklin, there were in fact three of the four Swiss German seats of the committee of six people who had to be renewed. No fewer than 10 candidates had expressed their interest to join the committee, including four persons for the post of president. </p><p>After confirming the number of 6 persons for the committee, the assembly elected in order: </p> <ul><li> Fr茅d茅ric Sch眉tz (reelection), </li><li> Ludovic P茅ron, </li><li> Mourad Ben Abdallah (president), </li><li> Gion Hosang, </li><li> Bagawathram Maheswaran, </li><li> Ilario Valdelli (reelection). </li></ul> <p>The committee is now composed of three Swiss French, a Swiss German (Bagawathram Maheswaran), a Swiss Italian (Ilario Valdelli) and a Romansh representative (Gion Hosang). It will officially take office 60 days after his election and we wish him good luck and success! </p><p>(This communication is not the result of the formal protocol that must be followed in coming days) </p> </div> </div> <div class="SpaceNews"> <div class="contentbox"> <div class="title">Wikipedia Offline: First openZIM Developers Meeting - Project started<span style="text-align:right; float:right;"><small>February 22nd 2009</small></span></div> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://www.wikimedia.ch/" class="external text" title="http://www.wikimedia.ch/" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia CH</a> encourages the development of a free standard for Wikipedia offline content as well as all neccessary tools to create and read such data. </p><p>The free file format ZIM is based on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://www.zeno.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.zeno.org/" rel="nofollow">Zeno files</a> which were developed in 2006 by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://www.directmedia.de/" class="external text" title="http://www.directmedia.de/" rel="nofollow">berlin publisher Directmedia</a>. It is enables the usage of libraries like Wikipedia without internet access. The german <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DVD/2006-2007" class="external text" title="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DVD/2006-2007" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia DVD 2006/2007</a> was the first release based on this file format and was shipped with the ZenoReader - a webserver application - which served the articles to the local webbrowser. </p><p>Tommi M盲kitalo of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://www.tntnet.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.tntnet.org/" rel="nofollow">Tntnet project</a> developed the first complete replacement for the proprietary ZenoReader. The Tntreader runs on all POSIX compatible operating systems. In cooperation with Directmedia file format and reader were further developed, resulting in the german <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DVD" class="external text" title="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DVD" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia DVD 2007/2008</a> which was bundled with M盲kitalo's free software. </p><p>The availability of free software and an efficient file format sparked the interest in being able to create individual Zeno files to make more libraries offline available. Wikimedia CH supports these efforts by providing the project team around Tommi M盲kitalo with a server and a budget for developer meetings. </p><p>The first developers meeting took place this weekend around February 21st 2009. The project team meet for the first time to know each other personally, created a roadmap, discussed technical concepts and some improvements of the format. As it is now an entirely free project of the open source community it was renamed to <b>openZIM</b>: The open implementation of the improved Zeno format (<b>ZIM</b>). </p><p>It is planned to have all the tools ready to create a ZIM file containing the german Wikipedia by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/" class="external text" title="http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/" rel="nofollow">LinuxTag 2009</a> where the project will be presented. </p><p>Website: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://openzim.org/" class="external free" title="http://openzim.org" rel="nofollow">http://openzim.org</a> </p> </div> </div> <p><br/> </p> <hr/> <p><b>Older news articles can be found in the archive:</b> <a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/News/Archive_2008" title="News/Archive 2008">2008</a> - <a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/News/Archive_2007" title="News/Archive 2007">2007</a> - <a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/News/Archive_2006" title="News/Archive 2006">2006</a> </p> <!-- NewPP limit report Preprocessor node count: 51/1000000 Post-expand include size: 3895/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 3275/2097152 bytes Expensive parser function count: 0/100 --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key db00028-members_:pcache:idhash:1807-0!1!0!!en!2!edit=0 and timestamp 20090420212111 --> <div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/News">http://members.wikimedia.ch/News</a>"</div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <span dir="ltr"><a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/Category:Information" title="Category:Information">Information</a></span></div></div> <!-- end content --> <div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="column-one"> <div id="p-cactions" class="portlet"> <h5>Views</h5> <div class="pBody"> <ul> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"><a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/News" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c">Page</a></li> <li id="ca-talk" class="new"><a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/index.php?title=Talk:News&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t">Discussion</a></li> <li id="ca-viewsource"><a href="/web/20090421004024/http://members.wikimedia.ch/index.php?title=News&action=edit" title="This page is protected. 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