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                                      Software Freedom Pledge
                                     
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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On September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
                                     
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                                              Sunil Abraham
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Most encryption standards are open standards. They are developed by open participation in a publicly scrutable process by industry, academia and governments in standard setting organisations (SSOs) using the principles of “rough consensus” – sometimes established by the number of participants humming in unison – and “running code” – a working implementation of the standard. The open model of standards development is based on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”.
                                      
                                          
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                                      FOSSCON India 2019
                                    
 
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                                              Admin
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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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.
                                      
                                          
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                                      It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day 
                                     
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                                              Subhashish Panigrahi
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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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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                                      IP Meetup #02: Prabir Purkayastha on the CRI Guidelines and software patenting in India
                                    
 
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                                              Anubha Sinha
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                      Swatantra 2014: Fifth International Free Software Conference, Kerala
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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ICFOSS, Govt. of Kerala organized the fifth international Free Software Conference at Hotel Hycinth by Sparsa, Trivandrum from December 18 - 20, 2014. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the organizations supporting the event. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam was a speaker and made a presentation on Open Science.
                                      
                                          
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                                      State of Openness in India's E-Governance Applications
                                     
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                                              Upasana Hembram
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Open source software (OSS), also commonly known as free and open source software (FOSS) or free libre open source software (FLOSS), is software that is made available with its source code. It is licensed liberally, granting users access to study, use, modify, improve, or redistribute it. This work was sponsored by Mozilla Foundation. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      FOSS & a Free, Open Internet: Synergies for Development
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 will be held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme of IGF 2015 is Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Civil Society is organizing a workshop on FOSS and a Free, Open Internet. The workshop will be held on November 13, 2015 from 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash will be speaking at this event.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India: Opportunities for Advocacy in Intellectual Property
                                     
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                                              Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Centre for Internet & Society worked on a three part case study. The first case study on digital protection of traditional knowledge was published by GIS Watch in December 2016. The other two case studies along with the synthesis overview has also been published.
                                      
                                          
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                                      National Koha Conclave
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Informatics Publishing organized an event at Fortune Park JP Celestial in Bangalore on February 17, 2016. Sunil Abraham delivered the inaugural address on the occasion.
                                      
                                          
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