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Blog Entry Security of Open Source Software : A Survey of Technical Stakeholders’ Perceptions and Actions
by Divyansha Sehgal — published Apr 13, 2023 — filed under:
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Blog Entry Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse in Software
by Divyank Katira — published Apr 13, 2023 — last modified Apr 13, 2023 05:47 AM — filed under:
Dividing and breaking up a software project into smaller modules with functionality that can be reused to build other software is an increasingly common practice in software development today. We examine our infrastructural dependence on reuse of open-source software (OSS) components, examine the unique security risks posed by the widespread reuse of code, and survey systemic solutions to securing code reuse.
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Blog Entry Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 11, 2022 — filed under: , , , , , , ,
The digitization project of O Bharat, a historic biweekly published between 1912 to 1949 in Goa was completed through collaboration of different organizations. The trustees of Bharatkar Hegde Desai Trust initiated the project in collaboration with Marathi department of Goa University, Bhakti Dnyan Marg Sanstha and Goa Central Library. The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge Programme facilitated the project with technical and financial assistance. Two local students scanned 12000 pages in 8 days. The year wise volumes of O Bharat are now freely available on Wikimedia Commons in the form of archive.
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Blog Entry Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 11, 2022 — filed under: , , , , , ,
It all started like this. During the Wikimedia session at Goa University in October 2021, it was realised that there is very little documentation about the ‘Goa Liberation Struggle’ on Wikimedia projects. So, in the meeting Prof. Vinay Madgaonkar from the Marathi language department took the lead to develop a project around this theme.
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Call for Survey Responses: Security Perceptions of Open Source Software Among Practitioners
by Divyansha Sehgal — published Nov 30, 2021 — last modified Nov 30, 2021 05:14 AM — filed under: ,
Most software projects today contain open source components. Some industry estimates put the number at 500+ OSS components per app. Centre for Internet and Society is studying the security impact of the widespread use of these (often under-maintained) projects.
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Gurshabad Grover nominated to join advisory group on open source software for ISO/IEC JTC 1
by Admin — published Oct 30, 2019 — last modified Nov 02, 2019 05:17 AM — filed under: ,
Gurshabad Grover has been nominated through the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to be a member of the Advisory Group AG) on Open Source Software for ISO/IEC JTC 1.
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React India 2019
by Admin — published Oct 14, 2019 — filed under:
Bhuvana Meenakshi was a speaker at an International conference, 'React India 2019" which was the first beach conference and which was hosted at Goa on 26-28, September 2019.
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DevFest'19
by Admin — published Oct 14, 2019 — filed under: ,
Bhuvana Meenakshi was a speaker at the event organised by Google Developers Groups at Coimbatore on September 14, 2019.
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FOSSCON India 2019
by Admin — published Sep 25, 2019 — last modified Sep 25, 2019 10:59 PM — filed under: ,
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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India’s top science institution is trying hard to fix its “manel” problem
by Admin — published Aug 19, 2019 — filed under: ,
B Chagun Basha is a science, technology and innovation policy fellow at Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Centre for Policy Research established by the department of science & technology (DST-CPR).
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