Building an "Offline-Netflix" with RACHEL

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Dear Forum,

hope this is the right place for my request.

Let me quickly introduce myself:

My Name is Vito from Rushlake Media. We are an international film distribution company based between Cologne, Germany and Nairobi, Kenya.

Together with my colleagues Peter Pages Bwire, founder of the Kitali Week and Lydia Wrensch, film producer of Kenyan current Oscar-Submission NAWI we are currently working on an initiative under the working title “Sawaflix” to enable rural african communities the access to films.

The initiative is supported by the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a German federal enterprise that provides international development cooperation services.

The RACHEL Device seems to be very suitable for our goals. Therefore we are wondering if your services could be of help to us, to which degree the device is customizable, how a potential collaboration would look, what the next steps would look like etc.

It would be great if you would be available for a quick video call.

Also happy to share a short presentation, so have more concrete ideas.

Feel free to contact me via mail: vito@rushlake-media.com

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Best

Vito

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Hi @Vito_Marchiano - conceptually, RACHEL is just a unique hardware setup including a battery (for keeping time and running the device in a power outage), custom WiFi cards for connecting many users at once, and a low-powered Raspberry-Pi like server.

Conceptually, while it’s probably not a familiar concept to load up a server with content, there is nothing about what we do you couldn’t do without us. Either way, you’d need to have a base technical understanding of setting up a web server on a LAN.
If you’ve solved those hurdles and are just interested in the hardware platform, or you’re interested in donating movie content we can include in our broad sub-saharan African distribution; then we could help.

Best,
Jeremy