Syed how hard would it be to have the discuss.outernet.is forum sent over L-Band and into Library?
If you made all photograph and attachment uploads “HIGHLY” compress their attachments I think It could work and also It would be very informative for all Outernet REMOTE users.
Running discourse.org on a CHIP would be tough. But maybe we can figure out a way to send the content in a way that can be easily consumed.
@Abhishek What is your knee jerk reaction to only sending the forum content as text files?
What about as a cloned, text only webfile?
It’s a nice idea.
Why not spend the time on sorting RSS feeds which should be a fairly trivial problem, and would open up a whole load of useful content.
Then you could just grab http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.outernet.is%2Fposts.rss&max=3 along with the other feeds?
Are you saying there is a tool which allows you to automate getting selected RSS feeds and converting them to a cut down list and cut down to bare text and then posts them to something like Outernet?
I think it would be a great idea.
At 1MB an hour we are rich in text based stuff.
It doesn’t exist yet, but I think it should be fairly easy to set up.
SimplePie Documentation: strip_htmltags() is FOSS and can fetch full text feeds, strip html could be run locally on the ‘carousel machine’.
Then copy the files over to the carousel with a script?
Or another approach would be to use wget on a RSS feed and then script to strip out the images & turn into HTML