Gnome 3.10 released
Gnome 3.10 is released and it has some cool features. It feels good that Geolocation and Maps application are part of it. I wrote the client and server for GeoIP based GeoLocation when I was
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GUADEC 2013
A couple of firsts! My first time at GUADEC and my first trip abroad as well. And guess what! It was also a first time for GUADEC where it saw 18% women participants! All thanks
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Reached late on 1st August. Brno came out to be hotter than expected. (Why did I even think of bringing a pullover!) Liked yesterday’s session on sandboxing application for Gnome by Lenhart Poettering. Now ebassi’s
Continue reading »Poster Competition on Women’s and LGBT Issues
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
Continue reading »Report of the Localization Hackathon event on CFD
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
Continue reading »Localization Hackathon for Women on CFD (20 May)
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
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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
Continue reading »2nd meeting of wfs-india to promote FOSS among women in India
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
Continue reading »Minutes of the first planning meeting to promote FOSS among women in India
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
Continue reading »IRC planning meeting to promote FOSS among women in India
Who should join? If you are enthusiastic about FOSS and sometimes/always wondering why there are so few women in India contributing/working in FOSS, please do join. People in the meeting would love to hear your
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