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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Oct 30, 2013 09:17 AMA Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. Although most of the participants had attended the introductory session there were a few who were coming over for the first time.
‘Some Indian laws could be challenging’
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 19, 2012 04:40 AMWikipedia’s founder member Erik Möller says their principle is not to decide the map of India, but to explain that there is a controversy.
Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PMSubhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
Open Government Platform: An Open Source Solution to Democratizing Access to Information and Energizing Civic Engagement
— by Neeta Verma, Alka Mishra and D.P. Mishra — last modified Nov 19, 2012 03:15 AMIf government could release these datasets in open format for people to use & reuse, a whole lot of new innovative apps could be built around these datasets to provide better, customized services to citizens.
Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AMA new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in Hyderabad
— by Yuvi Panda — last modified Dec 03, 2012 06:37 AMBITS Hyderabad had a tech fest from October 25 to 27, 2012, and wanted to conduct a technical wiki hackathon. We decided to do it on October 26 — all night.
Art in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene Kogan
Nov 30, 2012 from 09:00 AM to 11:00 AM — The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, IInd Stage - 560071 (Near Domlur Club and TERI Complex), — by Prasad KrishnaThe Centre for Internet and Society is hosting a talk by Gene Kogan, a programmer and digital artist, at its office in Bangalore on November 30th, 2012, from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
— by Yuvraj Pandian — last modified Dec 04, 2012 07:31 AMWikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a kickstart in developing userscripts/gadgets, and get them to a point where the prior existing documentation makes sense to them.
An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media Learning
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 07:06 AMOdia Wikipedians were invited to Academy of Media Learning (AML), Bhubaneswar for a guest lecture and a workshop on contributing to Odia Wikipedia. The event was organised by the Centre for Internet & Society on November 10, 2012. This is a report about the activities in AML.
Steady Steps.....FOSS and the MDG's
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 09, 2012 01:11 AMPranesh Prakash was a panelist at this IGF workshop held on November 9, 2012. It was organised by International Center For Free and Open Source Software and Free Software and OpenSource Foundation For Africa.
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