[SGVLUG] Meeting this Week.

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

So we are going to have two Presenters this month, First Scott
Williams will be talking about the current state of Fedora.

Then are main Presenter will be Braddock Gaskill,

Filling the Digital Divide with Offline Content
(or) Six ways to deliver a library anywhere for under $90

SUMMARY

Off-line content is reading material, educational texts, and other
reference materials delivered on media such as SDCards, DVDs, custom
hardware, or hard drives so that it can be used without internet
access. A typical deployment can deliver the equivalent of tens of
thousands of printed books. The cost to deliver large off-line
libraries has fallen below the cost to deliver online internet access
in most areas. Off-line content thus provides a cost effective way to
provide access to the world's knowledge before affordable internet
infrastructure is available. This presentation reviews six emerging
projects which aim to provide off-line hardware and libraries,
including the author's creation, the $20 Humane Reader

The device can store a 5,000 book library or the better part of
Wikipedia and display it on any TV set in a developing-world village
library - all for under $20. It is also a fun general purpose 8-bit
computing platform comparable in raw capability to the Apple II and
built, in part, for experimentation and hobbyists. The entire system
is open sourced, and uses GNU toolchain cross development under Linux
with heavy OSS throughout.

About the presenter:
Braddock Gaskill is CEO and co-founder of Dockside Vision Inc, an
advanced information visualization and human-computer interface
company. Prior to founding Dockside Vision, Mr. Gaskill had over ten
years of experience as a technology consultant in both the defense and
commercial sectors. His expertise spans the fields of information
visualization, collaborative systems, electronics design, machine
vision, information assurance, and robotics control, and includes
publications in ballistics simulation, a patent in crytographic
authentication, and multiple pending patents in visualization
techniques.