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Science Gallery Workshop @ Srishti
- December 04, 2012
Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology is organizing a workshop to discuss the exciting potential of envisaging a Science Gallery in Bangalore as a part of the Global Science Gallery Network. Sunil Abraham is participating in this workshop.
Read more →Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants
- December 07, 2012
A Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. Although most of the participants had attended the introductory session there were a few who were coming over for the first time.
Read more →‘Some Indian laws could be challenging’
- November 19, 2012
Wikipedia’s founder member Erik Möller says their principle is not to decide the map of India, but to explain that there is a controversy.
Read more →Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!
- December 07, 2012
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.
Read more →Open Government Platform: An Open Source Solution to Democratizing Access to Information and Energizing Civic Engagement
- November 16, 2012
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.
Read more →Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
- December 04, 2012
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.
Read more →Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in Hyderabad
- December 03, 2012
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.
Read more →Art in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene Kogan
- November 15, 2012
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.
Read more →A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
- December 03, 2012
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.
Read more →An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media Learning
- December 07, 2012
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.
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