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Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
- July 02, 2014
“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
Read more →Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Enadu
- July 02, 2014
Eenadu covered the event on June 25, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik are quoted.
Read more →Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
- July 04, 2014
For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
Read more →Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
- July 02, 2014
Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
Read more →Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era
- July 04, 2014
Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team invite you to a two-day national workshop on knowledge and openness in the digital era.
Read more →This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia
- July 03, 2014
The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
Read more →Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian Every Week
- June 16, 2014
WeAreWikipedia is an initiative to bring in voices of Wikipedia contributors (known as Wikipedians). One Wikipedian curates the Twitter based handle for a week and tells interesting stories from his/her communities that are unheard to the rest of the globe. Started as a personal project by our program officer Subhashish Panigrahi it has brought 18 Wikipedians across the globe including 6 Indic language communities.
Read more →Yogyakarta Meeting on Open Culture and Critical Making
- July 03, 2014
Sharath Chandra Ram will be part of the ASIA LABS theme panel and will also be doing community FOSS/FOSH workshops at the Maker events at the event organized by HONF Foundation, Catec, and r0g from June 12 to 15, 2014.
Read more →Open Data in Cultural Heritage – OpenGLAM in Germany
- July 28, 2014
Subhashish Panigrahi took part in this event as a member of the OpenGLAM Working Group.
Read more →Openness
- May 22, 2014
The philosophy of openness is one that concerns itself with shifting power from centralized authorities of knowledge like owners to the community with its varied components like users, producers or contributors.
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