-
Talk on bringing 1000 books about the culture of Maharashtra on Marathi Wikipedia
-
by
Subhashish Panigrahi
—
published
Nov 30, 2015
—
last modified
May 02, 2020 04:39 PM
—
filed under:
Marathi Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Marathi Wikisource
Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, a Pune based non-profit that was founded in Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and colleagues in 1894, has recently announced to digitise their 1000 volumes of books centred around Peshwa culture. A discussion about digitising these books and making them available online on Marathi Wikisource is being organised on December 1 at the Energy Resources Institute(TERI), Bengaluru. Avinash Chaphekar, Joint Secretary of MGS will be addressing this talk.
Located in
Openness
-
WikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together
-
by
Netha Hussain and Subhashish Panigrahi
—
published
Jan 14, 2014
—
last modified
Feb 03, 2014 06:57 AM
—
filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Malayalam Wikipedia,
Openness
WikiSangamotsavam, the annual conference of Malayalam Wikimedians, took place in Alappuzha, Kerala from December 21 to 23, 2013. The conference brought together around 200 Wikimedians and well-wishers from all over India.
Located in
Openness
/
Blog
-
Wikimania 2013: The International Wikimedia Conference
-
by
Prasad Krishna
—
published
Aug 26, 2013
—
last modified
Aug 29, 2013 06:30 AM
—
filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference took place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
Located in
News & Media
-
Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
-
by
Subhashish Panigrahi
—
published
Jun 20, 2014
—
last modified
Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AM
—
filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
Located in
Openness
/
Blog
-
#NAMA: The Future of Indic Languages
-
by
Prasad Krishna
—
published
Jul 24, 2014
—
filed under:
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
Medianama is hosting an open house session on "The Digital Future of Indic Languages" at the Oberoi in Bangalore on Thursday, July 24, 2014. The event will begin at 4.30pm and be followed by cocktails and dinner. Subhashish Panigrahi will participate in the event.
Located in
News & Media
-
Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop
-
by
Prasad Krishna
—
published
Nov 12, 2013
—
filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
On November 14, the CIS-A2K team is organizing a one day orientation workshop on 'Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution' at the Kalinga Institute of Social Studies (KISS), Bhubaneswar from 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Located in
Openness
/
Events
-
Relevance of Bhagabat Tungi in the evolution of Odia language from Buddha era to digital age
-
by
Prasad Krishna
—
published
Apr 20, 2014
—
last modified
May 06, 2014 07:09 AM
—
filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Intellects, a Delhi based organisation of Odia intellectuals, and Shree Jagannath Mandir and Odisha Art and Cultural Center co-organized an event in New Delhi on April 20, 2014.
Located in
News & Media
-
Open Source India 2015
-
by
Prasad Krishna
—
published
Nov 30, 2015
—
last modified
Dec 15, 2015 07:46 AM
—
filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge
The twelfth Open Source India event organized by EFY Group was held at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore on November 19 and 20, 2015. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the event for the first day.
Located in
Openness
/
News & Media
-
[OpenGLAM] Nominate an OpenGLAM project today for the 2015 Muse Awards
-
by
Prasad Krishna
—
published
Feb 12, 2015
—
last modified
May 27, 2015 02:08 PM
—
filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
It's that time of the year again to nominate projects for the Muse Awards! This is like the Oscar of GLAM awards in the USA and welcomes international submissions.
Located in
Openness
/
News & Media
-
Odia Loves Wikipedia
-
by
Prasad Krishna
—
published
Apr 14, 2014
—
filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Odia is a 2,500 year old language native to the area of Odisha (formerly known as Orissa). The language has recently gained the status of an Indian classical language.
Located in
News & Media