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Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 20, 2015 — last modified Aug 21, 2015 05:40 PM — filed under: Wikimedia, Access to Knowledge
Prateek Pattanaik (User:Shrijagannatha on Odia Wikisource) is a young researcher of Odia literature and Odissi music. He has not just digitized as many as 54 Odia-language poetry dating early 18th century but has also annotated, both poetic and prosaic translation in his blogs “Sri Jagannatha” and “Utkal Sangeet”. He has also brought a complete book “Kisora chandranana champu” on Odia Wikisource. A recent entrant into the Odia Wikimedia community, Prateek is also the youngest Odia Wikimedian. He has also digitized 18-19th century 54 poem written by various poets.
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Odia Wikisource to Celebrate Its First Anniversary in Bhubaneswar: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 25, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:19 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikisource, Access to Knowledge
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow i.e., 25th October, 2015.
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Odia Wikisource workshop at New Delhi: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2014 — last modified Dec 30, 2014 01:08 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Video, Openness, Odia Wikipedia
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.
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Odia Wikisource, its Potential: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 17, 2014 — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:47 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
I wrote an editorial in Odia newspaper the "Samaja" on November 17, 2014. I have written about Odia Wikisource, its potential and how people can get involved in it with a short note about the digitization done already. I have also highlighted the authors and copyright holders who kindly have donated their work under CC-by-SA license.
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Odisha Dibasa 2014: 14 Books Re-released under CC License: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Odisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in Bhubaneswar with a gathering of 70 people.
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Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 24, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.
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Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 09, 2016 — last modified Aug 03, 2016 02:00 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Open Source, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia
Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 27, 2016 — filed under: Openness, FOSS, Open Source
The 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 group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
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Open Source Project Brings 11th Century Kannada Verses Online: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 19, 2014 — last modified Apr 06, 2014 06:00 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The post was co-authored by Pavithra Hanchagaiah, Omshivaprakash H L and Subhashish Panigrahi and published in the March issue of Foss Force.
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OpenGLAM at Wikimania 2014: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 27, 2014 — last modified Oct 06, 2014 05:09 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
GLAM activities in the last two months have been quite happening!
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