by O Foundation | Aug 27, 2019 | Conferences
How to make the Wikipedia/Wikimedia movement a sustainable one? How to make an event like Wikimania—that brings together about a thousand individuals from all over the world—a carbon-neutral one? Wikimania 2019 came to Stockholm, Sweden to address some such pertinent...
by O Foundation | Jul 30, 2019 | Conferences, Digital rights, India
Authoritarianism is not new—even societies that embraced democracy years ago still do not apply fully the democratic processes in their governance. With the rise of the Internet which was always intended to provide individuals more importance, there has been a...
by Subhashish P. | Jul 20, 2019 | Conferences
This year, we’re fortunate to be there at the Creative Commons Summit 2019 at Lisbon, Portugal. We presented a talk about OpenSpeaks titled—”OpenSpeaks: Open Archives of the Voices of the Commons“. Abstract Half of world’s languages (6500)...
by Subhashish P. | Sep 10, 2018 | Blogs, Conferences
Can you imagine a place other than New York City or Papua New Guinea where you can find people speaking hundreds of languages even in a small place? Well, it would be Wikimania, the annual conference of Wikipedia and other … Read the rest Related PostsOur...
by Sailesh Patnaik | Aug 10, 2018 | Blogs, Conferences
Bhubaneswar celebrated its first Software Freedom Day on September 16 though it took 13 long years to bring the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS/FOSS) enthusiasts and contributors under one roof. Software Freedom Day (often acronymed as SFD) …...
by Subhashish P. | Jun 21, 2018 | Blogs, Meetings
Did you know that Wikipedia exists in 290 languages, and is growing everyday? It is intriguing that all those 40 million articles that exists in these Wikipedias are all written by thousands of volunteers from across the world. Wikipedia has … Read the rest...
