Forgot to post about it. The Wikipedia Editathon that I co-organized along with Shobha from Breakthrogh got featured in Business Line. Nandini Nair, a journalist with the newspaper publishing house, came to attend the event and talk to us and we got this nicely written article – “Page not found“. Enjoy!
Category: WFS-India (Women in Free Software)
Breakthrough and Women in Free Software and Culture in India are organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in collaboration with Wikimedia India to create articles on Women Parliamentarians and Women Scientists in India on Wikipedia to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Through this event we encourage women and transwomen to […]
Date: 15th June Venue: #wfs-india channel on freenode Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm IST Registration: http://www.wfs-india.org/form/registration-form-git-workshop-june-15-2013 Git is, technically speaking, the most advanced version control system on earth right now. However this does not itself justify why everybody should learn it. The real value of git is that it has taken collaboration to a new level. […]
WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces a poster competition on women’s, LGBT and gender-related issues in India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural Freedom Day celebrations. You stand to win exciting prizes by your participation. Background India is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial country one billion strong and growing. India’s most pressing […]
WFS-india, a voluntary organization has been created a month back by some enthusiastic people wanting to see some gender parity in FOSS world. The group decided to organize a Localization Hackathon event on the eve of Cultural Freedom Day on 20th may, 2013 from 08:00pm to 09:30pm at the above mentioned channel. The event aimed […]
Women in Free Software India is organizing an online Localization Hackathon for women on Monday 20 May 2013 that is Cultural Freedom Day. Our goal is to include more women in Free and Open Source Software.This event will be good for anyone new or not yet aware of FOSS and it doesn’t require any programming […]
Finally, things are taking shape. We got a very few but dedicated people interested to promote FOSS among women in India. After the first two meetings we decided to have this online event where we will have an online digital art competition a Mediawiki hackathon an event on localization. Everything is in planning stage right […]
We will be having our second meeting on Tuesday 7 May at 9pm IST at #wfs-india channel on irc.freenode.net. The agenda includes – make plans for an event divide the tasks among ourselves Please join us if you are interested. The minutes of the first meeting is at – http://wfs-india.dreamwidth.org/832.html
The minutes of the first meeting to promote FOSS among women in India held on Monday 29 April 2013 at channel #wfs-india at irc.freenode.net is as follows – We created a community at http://wfs-india.dreamwidth.org/. Please join if you are interested. Regarding creating a new group for the cause, we noted that although there exist quite […]