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<div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to FOSS Community 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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*[[Projects]] | |||
*[[:Category:Events| Events]] | |||
*[[BoFs]] | |||
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*[[:Category:Communities|Communities]] | |||
*[[:Category:Campaigns|Campaigns]] | |||
*[[SFD|SFD Teams]] | |||
*[[l10n| L10N Teams]] | |||
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*[[IRC]] | |||
*[[Stuffs]] | |||
*'''[[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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=== [[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. | |||
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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] | |||
=== [[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 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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== See also == | |||
*[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] | |||
== Initiatives Planned == | |||
#[[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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