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The Impact of Regulation: FOSS and Enterprise: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 22, 2011 — filed under: Openness
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FOSSCON India 2019: by Admin — published Sep 25, 2019 — last modified Sep 25, 2019 10:59 PM — filed under: Openness, FOSS
Bhuvana Meenakshi gave a talk on "The revolution of WebXR" at FOSSCON India 2019 organized by KLS Gogte Institute of Technology in Belgaum from August 29 - 31, 2019, where she discussed about the tools used for development and demos.
Located in Openness / News & Media
DevFest'19: by Admin — published Oct 14, 2019 — filed under: Openness, Open Source
Bhuvana Meenakshi was a speaker at the event organised by Google Developers Groups at Coimbatore on September 14, 2019.
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React India 2019: by Admin — published Oct 14, 2019 — filed under: Openness
Bhuvana Meenakshi was a speaker at an International conference, 'React India 2019" which was the first beach conference and which was hosted at Goa on 26-28, September 2019.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Gurshabad Grover nominated to join advisory group on open source software for ISO/IEC JTC 1: by Admin — published Oct 30, 2019 — last modified Nov 02, 2019 05:17 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Source
Gurshabad Grover has been nominated through the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to be a member of the Advisory Group AG) on Open Source Software for ISO/IEC JTC 1.
Located in Openness / News & Media
It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 17, 2016 — filed under: Open Standards, Access to Knowledge, FLOSS, Openness, FOSS
Software 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 hundreds registered events around the world, depending on the year.
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ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବା: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 18, 2016 — filed under: Open Standards, Openness, Access to Knowledge
Software 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 social change. I have also shared how anyone can contribute to the FOSS movement in different ways and celebrate SFD.
Located in Openness
Why Open Access Has To Look Up For Academic Publishing To Look Up: by Anubha Sinha — published Oct 12, 2016 — filed under: Openness, Open Access
In 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.
Located in Openness
OpenData Week in Madrid - OD4D Summit, Open Data Charter Meetings, and IODC16: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 16, 2016 — filed under: Open Data, Openness
Sumandro Chattopadhyay took part in three open data events in Madrid in the first week of October 2016.
Located in Openness / News & Media
(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards: by Harsh Gupta — published Oct 20, 2016 — filed under: Open Standards, Access to Knowledge, Web Standards, Encrypted Media Extensions, Openness
World 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 serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs

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