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Science Gallery Workshop @ Srishti
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Dec 04, 2012 03:42 PM — filed under:
Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology is organizing a workshop to discuss the exciting potential of envisaging a Science Gallery in Bangalore as a part of the Global Science Gallery Network. Sunil Abraham is participating in this workshop.
Located in News & Media
Blog Entry Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants
by Nitika Tandon published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Oct 30, 2013 09:17 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A 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.
Located in Openness / Blog
‘Some Indian laws could be challenging’
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 19, 2012 — filed under: , , ,
Wikipedia’s founder member Erik Möller says their principle is not to decide the map of India, but to explain that there is a controversy.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PM — filed under: , , ,
Subhashish 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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry 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 published Nov 19, 2012 — filed under: , ,
If 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.
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Blog Entry Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A 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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in Hyderabad
by Yuvi Panda published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Dec 03, 2012 06:37 AM — filed under: , , , ,
BITS 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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Art in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene Kogan
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 15, 2012 last modified Dec 13, 2012 06:06 AM — filed under: , ,
The 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.
Located in Openness / Events
Blog Entry A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
by Yuvraj Pandian published Nov 11, 2012 last modified Dec 04, 2012 07:31 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Wikipedian 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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media Learning
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 10, 2012 last modified Jul 17, 2013 07:06 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Odia 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.
Located in Openness / Blog