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Openness
Open data, open access, open standards and free software. 883 items.
10 Jan 2017
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Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise: January iterationThe January iteration of the Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise took place online.
9 Jan 2017
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Mini TTT and MWT held in KolkataA regional version of Train The Trainer and MediaWiki Training was recently conducted in Kolkata.
8 Jan 2017
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Adikavi Nannaya University Telugu Wikipedia WorkshopA Telugu Wikipedia introductory workshop was conducted for the students of Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry between 6- 7 January, 2017.
4 Jan 2017
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Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari ActivistsAn Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists was held on 4 January, 2017
11 Dec 2016
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Comments on the Draft National Policy on Software ProductsThe Centre for Internet & Society submitted public comments to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Information & Communications Technology, Govt. of India on the National Policy of Software Products …
28 Nov 2016
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Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University WorkshopAn Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
22 Nov 2016
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4 tips for DIY makersI started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while …
30 Oct 2016
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Kannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so farAs you know we are working closely with Christ university in Bengaluru for the Education Programs in Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikisource, we worked on redesigning the programme for this academic year 2016-17 based on the lessons …
29 Oct 2016
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Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work PublishedWe raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 …
28 Oct 2016
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Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly CommunicationORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these …
27 Oct 2016
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Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in BengaluruThe free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The …
20 Oct 2016
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(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web StandardsWorld Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a …
16 Oct 2016
News
OpenData Week in Madrid - OD4D Summit, Open Data Charter Meetings, and IODC16Sumandro Chattopadhyay took part in three open data events in Madrid in the first week of October 2016.
12 Oct 2016
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Why Open Access Has To Look Up For Academic Publishing To Look UpIn an important development, the US Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the India-based OMICS group for harassing authors to publish in its journals.
7 Oct 2016
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How we celebrated Software Freedom DayA small group of 6 FOSS contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map and users of FOSS solutions gathered in Bengaluru to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Subhashish Panigrahi who was a part of the …
3 Oct 2016
News
Indian language localization community meets in New DelhiLocalization is one of the less glamorous aspects of computing. Despite the fact that less than 6% of the world speaks English, a majority of projects don't feel inclined to accommodate the rest of the population. One of the primary reasons …
25 Sep 2016
News
Fuel Gilt Conference 2016Fuel Gilt Conference 2016 was organized by the Fuel Project is being held in New Delhi on September 24 and 25, 2016. This is the fourth conference in series. Subhashish Panigrahi made a presentation at this event.
18 Sep 2016
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ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବାSoftware Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, was celebrated in many cities today. The piece sheds light on the philosophy of software freedom, and how free and open source software is making a significant …
18 Sep 2016
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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source SoftwareSoftware Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a …
17 Sep 2016
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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom DaySoftware Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include …
1 Sep 2016
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Submitted Comments on the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016Last month, the Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department of the Government of Telangana released the first public draft of the Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016, and sought comments from various stakeholders in …
31 Aug 2016
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A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureatesMany articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel …
30 Aug 2016
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Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licensesA campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.
17 Aug 2016
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Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at PuneA two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building.
2 Aug 2016
News
Open Data Charter Lead Stewards In-Person MeetingSunil Abraham participated remotely in this meeting which was held in Mexico on July 4 and 5, 2016. The event was organized by Open Data Charter.
31 Jul 2016
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Tools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of HyderabadTo help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.
26 Jul 2016
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Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'The public consultation process of the draft open data license to be used by Government of India has ended yesterday. Here we share the text of the submission by CIS. It was drafted by Anubha Sinha, Pranesh Prakash, and Sumandro …
14 Jul 2016
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Edit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada WikipediaWe have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of …
11 Jul 2016
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Online edit-a-thon on incidents in TeluguA week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.
10 Jul 2016
Event
Tools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of HyderabadA tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to …