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<div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to Free Software Community of India,</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">meeting point of Indian FOSS Communities.</div>
<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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*[[:Category:Services| Services]]
*[[Projects]]
*[[:Category:Events| Events]]
*[[Infrastructure]]
*[[BoFs]]
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*[[:Category:Communities|Communities]]
*[[:Category:Campaigns|Campaigns]]
*[[SFD|SFD Teams]]
*[[l10n| L10N Teams]]
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*[[Email Lists]]
*[[IRC]]
*[[Stuffs]]
*'''[[FAQ]]'''
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Free Software Community of India co-ordinates the free software (also open source) related activities in India. Regular meeting are happening locally. Campaigns in colleges and schools to spread the awareness of Free Software are ongoing. [[About|More about FSCI]]
 
'''Note: Currently new registrations are closed, if you want an account contact us via our mailing list or contact any of the admins listed [[FOSS_Community_India:Administrators|here]].''' You can also reach us via [https://matrix.to/#/#wiki.fsci.org.in:poddery.com any matrix chat client].
 
'''This wiki has been down for months because of huge spam attacks, so if anyone is volunteering to fight spam, we can open up registrations again.'''
 
''If you are an admin, then click [[Special:UserLogin/signup|here]] to create a new account.''
 
[https://wiki.fsci.org.in/index.php?title=An_Open_Letter_to_Ministry_of_Communications_and_Information_Technology_India An open letter] to Government of India to enforce Free Software.
 
 
 
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=== [[IfYouAre|If you are ]] ===
 
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.
 
=== [[Contribute|I want to contribute, tell me how to start?]] ===
 
I like Free Software, I use it regularly and I want to contribute. I don't know where to start.
 
* [[Contribute|Learn More]]
 
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==[[High Priority Projects]]==
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We need to provide Free Software replacements to proprietary communication services which can match feature to feature with their proprietary counterparts.
 
* List of [[High Priority Projects]]
 
==[[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]
 
==[[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]]
*[[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 Free Software Community of 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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== See also ==
*[http://lists.fosscommunity.in/listinfo.cgi/community-fosscommunity.in Mailing list]
*[https://www.loomio.org/g/esPoQ4S0/fosscommunity-in Loomio]
 
 
== Initiatives Planned ==
#[[Free Software Contribution 101 with j4v4m4n]]
#[[FOSS in Schools]] - to discuss and implment FOSS in schools.
#[[Unsupported Hardware]] - to collect data on unsupported hardware and offer them as projects to college students.
#[[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]]
#[[Campaign to promote free software in Karnataka]]
#Foss Community of India is celebrating [http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day] on September 16. [[SFD | List of participating communities]]
#Celebrate February as [[Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006|FOSS Month 2006]] (Feb 17th at [[Bangalore/MCC|MCC]] and 20th at [[Bangalore/SCE| Saptagiri]])
#Initiation of Student projects at various institutions in association with RedHat India. More focus on to make students comfortable in handling FOSS projects
#Formation of [[KDE|KDE Developer Community]] in India to be known as kde.in in association with Sirtaj Singh Kang
 
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