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World Day Against Software Patents
by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 10, 2010 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 07:15 AM — filed under: ,
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community.
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Blog Entry A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 22, 2013 — last modified Jan 22, 2013 03:09 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a Wikipedia workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT), Ghaziabad in collaboration with Metawings on January 17, 2013. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the happenings from the one-day workshop in this blog post.
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Blog Entry Content Creation on Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia
by Satpal Singh — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified May 15, 2021 12:24 PM — filed under: ,
This is a short study on the nature of content creation related to Punjab on Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia, its challenges and opportunities, and observations and potential strategies to address the same. The report has been authored by Satpal Singh, with editorial oversight and support by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and external review by Sumandro Chattapadhyay. This is part of a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2019–2020.
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#NAMA: The Future of Indic Languages
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 24, 2014 — filed under: ,
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.
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Font problem hits Odia
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 25, 2014 — filed under: , ,
Focus on search for solution to lack of compatibility.
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Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 07, 2014 — last modified Jul 28, 2014 06:41 AM — filed under: , , ,
From Monday, Wikipedia will hold a series of “edit-a-thons” to encourage people to add content to the site about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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Open Knowledge Festival 2014
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2014 — last modified Jul 28, 2014 10:17 AM — filed under: , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi represented India as the India Ambassador of OpenGLAM local in Berlin. The event was organized by Google, Omidyar, et.al., in Berlin from July 15 to 17, 2014.
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'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has issued a ten-day ban against an anonymous editor of its website located on the premises of the U.S. Congress, after the latter engaged in “disruptive editing,” on a wide range of subjects, from moon-landing conspiracy theories linked to Cuba to naming former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard.
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Blog Entry Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015
by Anubha Sinha — published Jul 30, 2014 — last modified Jun 24, 2015 04:45 PM — filed under: ,
We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Internet and Society will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi, India, tentatively in the first two weeks of December, 2015. This post seeks your participation and invites your queries and suggestions for the event.
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Now, Christ students will contribute to Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 06, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
The department of languages at Christ University has set a precedent by including contribution to Wikipedia as a part of the undergraduate course work.
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