Kiwix/Plan 2020-2021

Here's our Annual plan for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.

Goals and Outcomes

1. Make incremental but meaningful changes to our core products.

Priorities supported: Worldwide readership, Brand awareness

The key to offline access is the availability of contents that are easy to find, share and use, no matter the platform. To that end, we will improve current UI and UX designs to make content retrieval easier, and keep making sure that access to free knowledge remains possible even with lower-end devices.

2. Substantially extend the range of product experiences.

Priorities supported: Worldwide readership, Brand awareness

We will prioritize the industrialization of content release so that end users and partners alike can use Kiwix as the centerpiece of a rich and varied offline ecosystem of free knowledge. There will be more content to share, and a new QA system will make the transition from online to offline (and vice-versa) more seamless.
We will extend the range of existing commercial partnerships for the distribution of Kiwix Hotspots so that it is easier to deploy, in more places around the world.
We will improve our measurements of content interaction in the context of readership growth.

Targets

Outcome 1	Target 1	Measurement method	Baseline
Substantially extend the range of product experiences	20% increase in number of individual, non institutional users of Kiwix.	Mobile: baseline/endline number of retained 30-day Android installers as measured by Google Play console. Desktop: baseline/endline number of downloads as measured by Kiwix servers.	400k android users (June 1st, 2020) 1,130,000 desktop downloads (12 month total June 1st, 2020)
	Target 2	Measurement method
	Android 30 day retained installers exceeds 40%	Google Play Store stats	42% (Average last 6 weeks at time of posting)
	Target 3
	95% of zims automatically updated on a monthly basis; No outlier	Publication date at D-30 and D-60.	95% updated monthly (June 1st, 2020). Still significant issues with updating larger (>2.5M articles w/pictures) wikis
	Target 4	Measurement method
	Establish content QA process	n/a	n/a
Outcome 2	Target 5	Measurement method	Baseline
Make incremental but meaningful changes to our core products	Improve zim reading speed by 4x, thus lowering energy consumption of devices running kiwix	As measured by standard unit testing measurement methods.	Measured outcome will focus on low/medium range android devices.
	Target 6	Measurement method
	Number of open bug tickets decreases by 20% across all repositories.	Measure of code health (published via metrics.kiwix.org)	186 bug tickets open (June 15th, 2020)

Outputs

Improved UI and filtering on https://library.kiwix.org and transform it in our definitive online customer facing content store.
Revamp Kiwix-desktop and -Android library management
Speed-up ZIM reading speed / energy consumption ~x5 (with better algorithm & caching startegy)
Build content management backend system and integrate it to the Zimfarm
Define sales and partnerships KPIs and implement reporting board
First version of an online Wikipedia selection tool linked to our toolchain
Offer Wikipedia mirrors (via our ZIM schnapshots) on IPFS
Implement operational system backup strategy
Develop business plan to build financial sustainability

Dependencies

Volunteer developers to accelerate project speed
Google for GSoC selection and slot allocation.

Other programs, outcomes, and goals in 200-300 words.

Improve UI and filtering on cardshop so as to make card creation easier. We will continue to establish partnerships with commercial distributors of Kiwix-hotspot, and aim to increase non-grant revenue to 25% of total revenues. In order to keep abreast of market development and better connect with deployment opportunities, we will establish an advisory board whose member will represent key markets and partner segments.

We will also establish ourselves as the de facto solution for offline platforms, be it through whitebranding or implementing of offline capacities / zim compatibility in other projects, most notably those managed by members of the Offline Internet Consortium (e.g. OLIP).

Schedule

2020

50% grant payment

Q1

Properly support multiple flavours for a same content within kiwix-lib/OPDS Doing...
ZIM reading speed-up Done
Planning for a WP1 public selection tool Done
Planning for the ZIM CMS Done
Define sales & partnership KPIs Done

Q2

Mockup of library.kiwix.org welcome page 2.0 Done
library.kiwix.org API provides all the necessary API for the catalog Done
Kiwix-Android library manage properly managing filters Doing...
First tool to rename/delete ZIM content from the catalog Doing...
Publish Business plan Done
Business KPI dashboard Done

2021

50% grant payment

Q3

library.kiwix.org 2.0 online with filtering allowing easy content discovering Done
ZIM files available on IPFS Done
Kiwix-Android library manage properly managing flavours Doing...
Proper library cache mgmt in kiwix-lib Done
Kiwix-Desktop library with proper flavour mgmt Doing...
First version of the WP1 public selection tool Done

Q4

Kiwix-Desktop native library Doing...
library.kiwix.org offers widgets for wiki.kiwix.org and www.kiwix.org Done
library.kiwix.org offers a way to directly download ZIM files Done
At least 5 Wikipedias fully available & updated to surf on IPFS Done
Kiwix-Desktop library with proper filters Done
Reliable backup strategy up & running Done

Reporting

Monthly check in with Jorge Vargas
Quarterly goals on-wiki
End-of-year / final report