A project I was on had a similar requirement of being able to search

and read documents offline on the iPhone *snarl*. Anyway, what I did

was port an excellent open source search engine called hyper estraier

[1] over to the iPhone and used that on various kinds of documents. As

a test I indexed over 2000 PDFs from MIT OpenCourseWare. It works

really well [2]. I used lighttpd for the web server. All these

technologies will work fine on the 1973/Freerunner. If there is an

interest in this I could package it up for Openmoko. There is also

potential for developing a native GUI local search tool using hyper

estraier because it comes with a C API and other language bindings.

This would remove the web server dependency.
John.
[1] http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKlkcZ6vYo
2008/7/14 Yaroslav Halchenko :

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> Hi All,

>

> In the sight of upcoming delivery of our 10-pack, we wanted to get ready

> to do some testing on the spot, ie when we get together and open our

> boxes, to power then up and try to make sure that all of them work in

> the 'similar' fashion (GPS, GSM, etc) so if there is a defective unit,

> we could localize it easily since we will have a few of them and a few

> of SIM cards to try ;-)

>

> But if smth doesn't work, of cause, the best way is to lookup on the

> wiki and we will not have (I think) internet connection on the spot. I

> thought if it is possible to gently (smth not like wget -m

> http://www.openmoko.org) obtain a copy of openmoko.org's mediawiki

> content.

>

> Brief googling lead me to few possible solutions (unfortunately

> not non-intrusive into openmoko's wiki setup) such as

>

> Mediawiki offline (thanks to Google Gears):

> http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Mediawiki_LocalServer

>

> But I wonder may be there is simpler/better ones like a dump of DB

> without account information credentials, etc? Something like what

> wikipedia offers

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

> (which they actually closed and I see the reason with their sizes), but

> they also seems to have a workaround

> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikix

>

>

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