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| <div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to FOSS Community India,</div>
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| <div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">meeting point of Indian FOSS Communities.</div>
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| <div id="articlecount" style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;">[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English and other Indian Languages. Arranged in ''[[Special:Categories|Categories]]''</div>
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| *[[Projects]]
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| *[[:Category:Events| Events]]
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| *[[BoFs]]
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| *[[:Category:Communities|Communities]]
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| *[[:Category:Campaigns|Campaigns]]
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| *[[SFD|SFD Teams]]
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| *[[l10n| L10N Teams]]
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| *[[Email Lists]]
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| *[[IRC]]
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| *[[Stuffs]]
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| *'''[[FAQ]]'''
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| FOSS Community India co-ordinates the FOSS related activities in India. Regular meeting are happening locally. Campaigns in colleges and schools to spread the awareness of FOSS are ongoing. [[About|More about FOSS Community, India]]
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| | Consult the [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software. |
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| === [[IfYouAre|If you are ]] ===
| | * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list] |
| | | * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ] |
| Whatever be your role in the society, you can do your bit to build a good society where sharing knowledge becomes a virtue and not a vice. We are living in a society where sharing is discouraged, often called by derogatory names, such as for example 'piracy'. This campaign is to create a ready reckoner for any person who intends to promote free knowledge and free software. [[IfYouAre|Here]] you have some tips.
| | * [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list] |
| | | * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language] |
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| ==[[Campaign for Document Freedom]]== | |
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| * [http://www.noooxml.org/ Say NO to Microsoft Office broken standard] | |
| * [http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions MSOOXML-QUESTIONS]
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| === [[Anti-DRM-Campaign|DRM elimination crew]] ===
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| Join the [[Anti-DRM-Campaign|DRM elimination crew]] which is determined to study the effects of DRM and educate the public. So if you wanna join this campaign, just sign your name on the crew list.
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| *[[GNU Labs]]
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| *[[Challenges|Challenges to Indian FOSS Contributors]]
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| *[[Contributors|List of Indian FOSS Contributors]] | |
| *[[Hackers|Hacker Community]]
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| '''IRC channel for FOSS Community India is #fci on freenode. You can access this through the [http://irc.wikicities.com Wikia IRC Gateway] ([[Wikia:Wikia IRC channel|help]])
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| '''Comment about the FCI logo [http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Image_talk:Wiki.png here]'''
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| {{featured-contributor}}
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| == See also ==
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| *[http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/fci-l Mailing list] and [http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/fci-l/ Archives] | |
| *[http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=21249585 orkut Community] | |
| *[http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/global/uncorkers Uncorkers]
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| == Initiatives Planned ==
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| #[[Free Software Contribution 101 with j4v4m4n]]
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| #[[FOSS in Schools]] - to discuss and implment FOSS in schools.
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| #[[Unsupported Hardware]] - to collect data on unsupported hardware and offer them as projects to college students.
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| #[[Supported Hardware Configurations Database]] - to collect Hardware configuration details for Laptops, Desktops and other accessories which fully support Free Software | |
| #[[FOSS project identification and indexing]] by Swathanthra Software users Group, [[Malappuram]]
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| #[[Campaign to promote free software in Karnataka]]
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| #Foss Community of India is celebrating [http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day] on September 16. [[SFD | List of participating communities]]
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| #Celebrate February as [[Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006|FOSS Month 2006]] (Feb 17th at [[Bangalore/MCC|MCC]] and 20th at [[Bangalore/SCE| Saptagiri]])
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| #Initiation of Student projects at various institutions in association with RedHat India. More focus on to make students comfortable in handling FOSS projects
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| #Formation of [[KDE|KDE Developer Community]] in India to be known as kde.in in association with Sirtaj Singh Kang
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