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How we celebrated Software Freedom Day: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 07, 2016 — last modified Oct 07, 2016 02:02 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Openness, FOSS
A small group of 6 FOSS contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map and users of FOSS solutions gathered in Bengaluru to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Subhashish Panigrahi who was a part of the event, reports the developments.
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Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 27, 2016 — filed under: Openness, FOSS, Open Source
The free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
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FOSS for Public Use: Free and Open Source Software for Digital India: by Anubha Sinha — published May 29, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:20 PM — filed under: Openness, FOSS
I attended a round-table meeting on May 29, 2015 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The meeting was organized by SFLC in collaboration with the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software, and the Centre for Internet & Society.
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FOSS: Smart Choice for Developing Countries: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 21, 2013 — filed under: Openness, FOSS, Access to Knowledge
This workshop is being organised by TechNation and Open Source Alliance of Central Asia on October 23. Sunil Abraham is participating as a panelist and will speak on FOSS and IT Growth Policies in South Asia.
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Connecting the Next Two Billion: The Role of FOSS: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 04, 2014 — last modified Sep 10, 2014 05:04 AM — filed under: Openness, FOSS, Access to Knowledge
Sunil Abraham was a speaker at this event organized by ICFOSS at the APrIGF in Noida on August 4, 2014.
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Free and Open Source Software and Standards for Public Health Information Systems in India: “Making them Work” by Bridging the Policy Practice Gap: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2017 — filed under: Openness, FOSS
Anubha Sinha spoke at the ORF Health Policy Workshop on the panel: The policy landscape in India with respect FOSS software and standards in the public sector more generally. The event was organized by Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi on February 27 and 28, 2017 in New Delhi.
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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions in abeyance: by Anubha Sinha — published Dec 21, 2015 — last modified Dec 23, 2015 10:06 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, FOSS, Software Patents, Access to Knowledge
The CRI Guidelines were heavily criticised for their failure to address the ambiguities created by Section 3(k) and for expanding the scope of software patent eligibile subject-matter, inter alia. Following several representations and submissions by interested stakeholders, the Controller General has moved the Guidelines into abeyance, until discussions with stakeholders are complete and contentious issues are resolved, and is a welcome step.
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'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community': by Rohini Lakshané — published Aug 23, 2015 — last modified Sep 27, 2015 11:51 AM — filed under: Open Source, Access to Knowledge, Open Innovation, FOSS, Patents
Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
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