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Dear Wikimedians, <br>
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ICFOSS, Govt of Kerala in collaboration with FSF-India, CIS,
SFLC.in, Swatantra Malayalam Computing and other like minded
organisations is celebrating Swtantra-2014, fifth international free
software confrence of Kerala. This is scheduled during 18-20
December 2014 at Thiruvananthapuram. More details about the event
can be seen at : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://icfoss.in/fs2014/">http://icfoss.in/fs2014/</a> . <br>
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CIS-A2K will be providing limited travel and stay scholarships to
interested Wikimedians from various language communities to attend
this event and benefit from it. Upto 10 scholarships are available
for Wikimiedians applying from Kerala. Upto 3 scholarships will be
considered from other Indic Wikimedians and India based English
Wikipedians. If you are interested please register your name here on
<a
href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests/Swatantra">Meta</a>.<br>
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag"></span>Eligibility<span
class="moz-txt-tag"></span></b>: You should have been a
Wikimedian with a minimum of 200 edits on Wikimedia projects as on
June 1, 2014. <br>
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag"></span>Important
dates<span class="moz-txt-tag"></span></b>: Nominate yourself by <b>December
8</b>, 2014 (many apologies for this delay and short notice). We
will confirm support by December 9, 2014. <br>
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag"></span>Travel
& Stay information<span class="moz-txt-tag"></span></b>:
(applicable only once the support is confirmed) <br>
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* Low fare flight costs will be considered if your travel by
bus/train is more than 24 hours to Thiruvananthapuram. <br>
* Stay in budget hotels, preferably on twin sharing basis. <br>
* All costs of the selected Wikimedians will be reimbursed on
actual basis upon submission of original bills to CIS Office in
Bangalore within 10 days of receipt. <br>
* It is essential to submit boarding passes along with tickets if
you travel by a flight. <br>
* CIS could help book flight tickets upon request. Those
interested to avail this support need to fill a form that we will
circulate <br>
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag"></span>Queries and
correspondence<span class="moz-txt-tag"></span></b>: <br>
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* For all queries, please write to rahim{at}cis-india.org and
vishnu{at}cis-india.org <br>
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag"></span>Expectations
from selected Wikimedians<span class="moz-txt-tag"></span></b>: <br>
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* Please see if you could utilize this opportunity to find
solutions to some of the technical/other problems your community may
be facing. <br>
* Do consider giving back the learning to your respective
communities. <br>
* We would appreciate if you could share your experience and
learning publicly. CIS-A2K will be happy to publish your write-up on
our blog <br>
<br>
If you know of a Wikimedian in your community who could benefit from
this event and also could bring back learning to benefit your
community, please encourage them to apply. <br>
<br>
Thank you <br>
Rahmanuddin Shaik <br>
Program Officer <br>
CIS-A2K
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