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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
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
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: Open Data, Open Content, Openness
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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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: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Information Technology
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.
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Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in Hyderabad: by Yuvi Panda — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 03, 2012 06:37 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
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: Lecture, Event, Openness
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.
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A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi: by Yuvraj Pandian — published Nov 11, 2012 — last modified Dec 04, 2012 07:31 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
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.
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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: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, WIPO, Openness
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
Steady Steps.....FOSS and the MDG's: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 09, 2012 — last modified Dec 09, 2012 01:11 AM — filed under: Openness, Internet Governance Forum, Internet Governance
Pranesh Prakash was a panelist at this IGF workshop held on November 9, 2012. It was organised by International Center For Free and Open Source Software and Free Software and OpenSource Foundation For Africa.
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Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 02, 2012 — last modified Dec 18, 2012 06:51 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Lecture, Event Type
The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is hosting a talk by Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation at its office in Bangalore on November 12, 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., followed by a lunch discussion.
Located in Openness / Events
Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati Wikipedia: by Noopur Raval — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 04, 2012 02:12 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This was a competition to raise Wikipedia awareness and help students discover the joy of writing articles in their native language and an attempt to connect producers having knowledge in Gujarati to a wide audience of more than four lakh readers.
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