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 doing my OPW internship with Gnome Foundation. Initially the libraries were part of geocode-glib, but the code for GeoIP has […]
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 to wonderful programs like Outreach Program for Women and GSoC internship. Overall, it’s been a nice experience at the conference. […]
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 talk on GTK scene graph is going on . Oh Uh! Started volunteering for the GUADEC from today. And Aruna […]
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 […]
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 ideas and suggestions to include more women in FOSS If you are a woman and think that women in software […]