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Online event for women in India on Cultural Freedom Day

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 […]

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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 join if you are interested. Regarding creating a new group for the cause, we noted that although there exist quite […]

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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 ideas and suggestions to include more women in FOSS If you are a woman and think that women in software […]

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How to get started in FOSS

I’ve started contributing to FOSS projects since the last month and I’ve already found myself telling two newbies how to get started in FOSS. Although I love to give “gyans” and explain stuff to people, I thought here’s a good opportunity to write on this topic a post as comprehensive as my limited ability and knowledge […]