Events

Wikimania 2018 Cape Town, South Africa + Decolonizing the Internet

by Subhashish Panigrahi
Blogs, Conferences
September 10, 2018September 10, 2018

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 …

Documenting language and culture: Wikipedia and beyond

by Subhashish Panigrahi
Blogs, Meetings
June 21, 2018June 21, 2018

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 …

How we celebrated Bhubaneswar’s First Software Freedom Day

by Sailesh Patnaik
Blogs, Meetings
September 30, 2017October 2, 2017

It took us 13 years to celebrate Software Freedom Day for the first time in Bhubaneswar. We’re not looking back now!

Bhubaneswar celebrated its first Software Freedom Day on September 16 though it took 13 long years to bring the …