Dear fellow Wikipedians,
Yesterday, Vishnu Vardhan, the CIS-A2K programme director, sent a Very Long
Email to this list, titled "Statement on CIS-A2K's FDC Proposal".
I suspect the subject line, and the length of the e-mail, may have
discouraged many from bothering with it. This is a brief message
encouraging you to make the effort, this once, as I believe the significant
news shared in it are worth hearing.
Cheers,
A.
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Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
We from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
thank you all for your support and collaboration. Below is the details of
our work for the month of June:
Telugu Books Re-release Under Creative Commons License
Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/ten-telugu-books-re-released-under-cc-by…>
(by Rahmanuddin Shaik, June 22, 2014). For the first time in the history of
Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under
Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at
Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Telugu Wikipedians in convincing Indu Gnaana
Vedika to re-release 10 of their books under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license which is
compatible with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Unlike the
predominant digitization efforts (which only makes scanned images
available), these books will be uploaded on Telugu Wikisource
<http://www.te.wikisource.org/> and converted into Unicode (searchable)
text. This will ensure that these books are freely read, both online and
offline in various formats like PDF, epub, mobi, text, etc. This is a major
milestone initiative by CIS-A2K to make the sum of all knowledge in Telugu
freely available to all Telugus over the internet and is part of its Telugu
language area plan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…>
.
Article
1. This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors
Behind Wikipedia
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhas…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, June 18, 2014).
Blog Entries
1. Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-b…>
Every Week (by Diptiman Panigrahi, June 16, 2014).
2. Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-language-gets-new-unicode-font-conv…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, June 20, 2014).
Events Organized
1. Kannada Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Book Lovers
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_K…>
(co-organized by Navakarnataka Publications, Bangalore, June 4, 2014). Dr.
U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era
<http://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-and-openness-in-digital-era>
(co-organized by Andhra Loyola College and CIS, Vijaywada, June 24-25,
2014).
News and Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
1. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Sakshi
<http://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-event-in-vijaywada-june-25-2014-sakshi>
(June 25, 2014).
2. Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: Coverage in Enadu
<http://cis-india.org/news/eenadu-june-25-2014-coverage-of-vijaywada-event>
(June 25, 2014).
3. Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-new-indian-express-june-25-2014-loyola-facult…>
(The New Indian Express, June 25, 2014).
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia
movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in
Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and
Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We
also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of
our newsletters can be accessed here
<http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters>. Wikipedians from various
communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs,
logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests>.
About CIS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization
that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy,
accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR
reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards,
etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital
humanities.
Follow us elsewhere
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K
- CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
- Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
Request for Collaboration:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both
organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with
Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To
discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive
Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
vishnu(a)cis-india.org.
CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag
Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core
funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its
other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International,
UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various
projects.
The same newsletter is available on Meta at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_to_Knowledge/Newsletter/June_2…
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
Hi all,
I will be holding a Workshop on the 30th of August at NMIMS Shirpur campus.
I'm looking for one more person to help me out with this, preferably from
Mumbai/Pune/Nashik.
If anyone is interested, please contact me ASAP.
Note: Bus tickets and accommodation will be borne by the host.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
What goes around, may not necessarily come around, it may simply bounce
back.
Please sign this petition for Volvo buses in Coimbatore:
https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-in…
Hi,
I will be conducting a WikiAcademy (tentatively on 8th August) in Reva
College, Bangalore.
I will appreciate if one more wikimedian can join me.
Note: copied India-list to see any other geography wikimedian is in
bangalore at this time & can join me
--
Thanks & Regards,
A.Radha Krishna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Subject: Spoken Tutorials moved into CC-BY-SA 4.0 License
To: cc-india(a)lists.ibiblio.org
Dear all,
Just heard from Prof. Kannan Moudgalya that Spoken Tutorials (
http://spoken-tutorial.org/) has moved to CC BY-SA 4.0 . It was using
CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 earlier which is non free
Congrats Prof. Kannan and team for changing spoken tutorials as OER
repository
Now this opens room for many FOSS projects like us to prepare and host
local language tutorials of FOSS packages under a free license in Spoken
tutorials
The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’
activity of the National Mission on Education through Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), launched by the Ministry of Human Resources
and Development, Government of India.
~ regards
Anivar Aravind
Secretary
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
jttp://smc.org.in
Consultant
International Centre for Free and Open Source Software(ICFOSS)
http://icfoss.in