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[OpenGLAM] Nominate an OpenGLAM project today for the 2015 Muse Awards: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 12, 2015 — last modified May 27, 2015 02:08 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
It's that time of the year again to nominate projects for the Muse Awards! This is like the Oscar of GLAM awards in the USA and welcomes international submissions.
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A Wikipedia Presentation at BITS, Goa: by Radhakrishna Arvapally — published Feb 09, 2015 — last modified Mar 09, 2015 01:21 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Quark is one of India's largest science, technology and management festivals, held every February at BITS Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. This year in 2015, the event was held from February 6 to 8, 2015. This blog post captures the key moments. About 12 delegates attended the event.
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An International Conclave of Odia Language: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 09, 2015 — last modified Mar 08, 2015 05:06 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Subhashish Panigrahi is participating in this event.
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Winners of the Opensource.com 2015 Community Awards: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 05, 2015 — last modified Feb 12, 2015 01:23 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Wikimedia
Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source.
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 31, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
This is an op-ed I authored for Odia newspaper the "Samaja" that got published on January 30, 2015. Through this post I intend to highlight the needs for taking the Odia language to international fora instead of keeping it confined within the books. I have covered the focus area of 3 free and open source projects: Odia Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource and Global Voices Odia in the column highlighting the need for more people to contribute.
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Poesis in the Information Age: Language and its Limit[ation]s: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 26, 2015 — last modified Jan 26, 2015 01:57 PM — filed under: Wikipedia, Event, Access to Knowledge
Alec Schachner, an independent scholar, translator, multi-genre musician and sound artist will give a talk on the limits/limitations of languages at the Centre for Internet & Society's office on January 30, 2015 at 5 p.m.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Events
Citizen Media Summit 2015: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 25, 2015 — last modified Feb 08, 2015 02:57 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia
The Citizen Media Summit 2015 was held in Cebu City, Philippines on January 24 and 25, 2015. Subhashish Panigrahi was a speaker at the event.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Musician donates Gwalior Gharana songs to free e-library: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2015 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
A few years ago, Mumbai-based musician Neela Bhagwat realized that her old notebooks filled with lyrics and notations of age-old 'bandishes' were in tatters. Afraid that she might lose them forever, Bhagwat decided to make fresh copies.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Centre should partner local communities in 'Digital India': Expert: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 16, 2015 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The central government needs to partner communities at the grassroots level and integrate the country's vernacular component to make the Digital India initiative a success, an expert said here Friday.
Located in Openness / News & Media
January 2015 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 16, 2015 — last modified Feb 26, 2015 05:02 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikipedia, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, NVDA, Openness, Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of January can be accessed below.
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