Conferences, seminars, workshops, hackathons and sprints, and other such gatherings
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
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
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“.
Half of world’s languages (6500) might
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
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)
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
Open Data Day is in town! Every year, data enthusiasts—who advocate and contribute towards making useful data openly accessible—gather for a day to brainstorm and conduct hands on activities to grow more Openness around data. We have been working on
Bhubaneswar celebrated its first Software Freedom Day on September 16 though it took 13 long years to bring the
Subhashish Panigrahi presented “8 FLOSS tools and 4 hardware for audio, video and image editing for Commons” at Wikimania 2017, Montreal, Canada recently.
The talk touch-bases some of the very user-friendly Open Source tools for image, audio and
Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, was held in Montreal, Canada during August 11–13, 2017. Sailesh Patnaik and Subhashish Panigrahi of O Foundation were awarded Wikimania scholarships this year for their contribution to Wikimedia projects,