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		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Service_Monitors&amp;diff=10703</id>
		<title>Service Monitors</title>
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		<updated>2018-07-04T12:12:59Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Add Balu as monitor for mailman&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Service Monitors acts as an interface between users and maintainers. The responsibilities of a Service Maintainer is listed below.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#. Check the service twice a week at least.&lt;br /&gt;
#. Check the service specific matrix room (if available) daily.&lt;br /&gt;
#. Try to reproduce/solve the problem (if possible).&lt;br /&gt;
#. Report the problem to the maintainers room.&lt;br /&gt;
#. Give feedback to the initial reporter.&lt;br /&gt;
#. Announce the status of problem to users.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Poddery - Diaspora, Matrix, XMPP ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Maintainers: Diaspora - Praveen , Matrix and XMPP - Shamil (@noteness )&lt;br /&gt;
Monitor: Kannan (@kannanvm )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Codema ==&lt;br /&gt;
Maintainer: Bady (@bady )&lt;br /&gt;
Monitor: Need a volunteer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mailman ==&lt;br /&gt;
Maintainer: Bhe (@bhe )&lt;br /&gt;
Monitor: Balu&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Peertube ==&lt;br /&gt;
Maintainer: Harish&lt;br /&gt;
Monitor: Raghu Kamath (@raghukamath )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Gitlab ==&lt;br /&gt;
Maintainer: Praveen&lt;br /&gt;
Monitor: Jagadeesh&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Discourse ==&lt;br /&gt;
Maintainer: Revant Nandgaonkar&lt;br /&gt;
Monitor: Need a volunteer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Note: @ denotes loomio.org usernames (and not twitter)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Services]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
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		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=FSUG_Directory&amp;diff=10589</id>
		<title>FSUG Directory</title>
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		<updated>2017-06-11T16:08:06Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Directory for FSUGs/ILUGs around the world ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| class=&amp;quot;wikitable&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin:auto&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! FSUG/ILUG&lt;br /&gt;
! Matrix (Preferred)&lt;br /&gt;
! Telegram&lt;br /&gt;
! Any other&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|ILUG ALPY&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ilug-alpy:diasp.in #ilug-alpy:diasp.in]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ilug_alpy @ilug_alpy]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|ILUG Kochi&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ilugcochin:matrix.org #ilugcochin:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ilugcochin @ilugcohin]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Kannur&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsugknr:matrix.org #fsugknr:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugknr @fsugknr]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|ILUG Kottayam&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ilug-ktm:matrix.org #ilug-ktm:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ilugkottayam @ilugkottayam]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Kozhikode&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-calicut:matrix.org #fsug-calicut:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugcalicut @fsugcalicut]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|SSUG Malappuram&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ssugm:diasp.in #ssugm:diasp.in]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ssugm @ssugm]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|PLUS - Palakkad&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#plus:matrix.org #plus:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/PlusFreedom @PlusFreedom]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Thiruvananthapuram&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-tvm:matrix.org #fsug-tvm:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugtvm @fsugtvm]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Thrissur&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-tcr:matrix.org #fsug-tcr:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugtcr @fsugtcr]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Idukki&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-idk:matrix.org #fsug-idk:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Wayanad&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-wayanad:matrix.org #fsug-wayanad:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Kasargode&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-ksd:matrix.org #fsug-ksd:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|SSUG Kollam&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ssugk:matrix.org #ssugk:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|RSET FOSS Club&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#rsetfc:matrix.org #rsetfc:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/rsetfossclub @rsetfossclub]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG at LBS College of Engineering, Kasargode&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://lbs.fsug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG at MES College of Engineering, Malappuram&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mes-fsug Mailing List]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|GLUG (Gnu/Linux Users Group) Meerut&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/glug-meerut Mailing List]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|NDBUG (New Delhi BSD User Group)&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://ndbug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Dubai Free Software Community&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#dfsc:matrix.org #dfsc:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/dxbfsc @dxbfsc]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Goa&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://goa.fsug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG at College of Engineering, Pune&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://co.fsug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Pune GNU/Linux Users Group, Pune&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://plug.org.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
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		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Main_Page&amp;diff=10588</id>
		<title>Main Page</title>
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		<updated>2017-06-08T17:41:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
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{|style=&amp;quot;width:100%;margin-top:+.7em;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #ccc&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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{|style=&amp;quot;width:280px;border:solid 0px;background:none&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:280px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;color:#000&amp;quot; |&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Welcome to Free Software Community of India,&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%&amp;quot;&amp;gt;meeting point of Indian FOSS Communities.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div id=&amp;quot;articlecount&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English and other Indian Languages. Arranged in &#039;&#039;[[Special:Categories|Categories]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%;color:#000&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Services| Services]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Projects]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Events| Events]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Infrastructure]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[BoFs]] &lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Communities|Communities]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Campaigns|Campaigns]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[SFD|SFD Teams]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[l10n| L10N Teams]]&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Email Lists]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[IRC]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Stuffs]]&lt;br /&gt;
*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[FAQ]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
Free Software Community of 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 FSCI]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;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]].&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;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.&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;If you are an admin, then click [[Special:UserLogin/signup|here]] to create a new account.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:ScienceDay.jpg |link=http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/~sciday/sciday/scienceday.htm |centre|900px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:GNUKhata.jpg |centre|900px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{box1 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
[http://lists.fosscommunity.in/listinfo.cgi/community-fosscommunity.in Mailing List]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:mailman.png|centre|140px|100px]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{box2 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
[https://www.loomio.org/g/esPoQ4S0/fosscommunity-in Collaborate]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:loomio.png|centre|140px|100px]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{boxes end}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{box1 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== [[IfYouAre|If you are ]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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 &#039;piracy&#039;. 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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== [[Contribute|I want to contribute, tell me how to start?]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I like Free Software, I use it regularly and I want to contribute. I don&#039;t know where to start.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Contribute|Learn More]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{box2 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==[[High Priority Projects]]==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:High.png|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We need to provide Free Software replacements to proprietary communication services which can match feature to feature with their proprietary counterparts.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* List of [[High Priority Projects]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==[[Campaign for Document Freedom]]==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:140px-Liberate.svg.png|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.noooxml.org/ Say NO to Microsoft Office broken standard]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions MSOOXML-QUESTIONS] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==[[Anti-DRM-Campaign|DRM elimination crew]]==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:DBD_eliminate.Small.jpg|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{boxes end}}&lt;br /&gt;
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{|style=&amp;quot;width:100%;margin-top:+.7em;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #ccc&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:56%;color:#000&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[GNU Labs]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Challenges|Challenges to Indian FOSS Contributors]]&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:56%;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Contributors|List of Indian FOSS Contributors]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Hackers|Hacker Community]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;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]])&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Comment about the FCI logo  [http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Image_talk:Wiki.png here]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
{{featured-contributor}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://lists.fosscommunity.in/listinfo.cgi/community-fosscommunity.in Mailing list]&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.loomio.org/g/esPoQ4S0/fosscommunity-in Loomio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Initiatives Planned ==&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Free Software Contribution 101 with j4v4m4n]]&lt;br /&gt;
#[[FOSS in Schools]] - to discuss and implment FOSS in schools.&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Unsupported Hardware]] - to collect data on unsupported hardware and offer them as projects to college students.&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Supported Hardware Configurations Database]] - to collect Hardware configuration details for Laptops, Desktops and other accessories which fully support Free Software&lt;br /&gt;
#[[FOSS project identification and indexing]] by Swathanthra Software users Group, [[Malappuram]]&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Campaign to promote free software in Karnataka]]&lt;br /&gt;
#Foss Community of India is celebrating [http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day] on September 16. [[SFD | List of participating communities]]&lt;br /&gt;
#Celebrate February as [[Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006|FOSS Month 2006]] (Feb 17th at [[Bangalore/MCC|MCC]] and 20th at [[Bangalore/SCE| Saptagiri]])&lt;br /&gt;
#Initiation of Student projects at various institutions in association with RedHat India. More focus on to make students comfortable in handling FOSS projects&lt;br /&gt;
#Formation of [[KDE|KDE Developer Community]] in India to be known as kde.in in association with Sirtaj Singh Kang&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Main_Page&amp;diff=10587</id>
		<title>Main Page</title>
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		<updated>2017-06-08T17:39:41Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Renaming to Free Software Community of India&lt;/p&gt;
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{|style=&amp;quot;width:100%;margin-top:+.7em;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #ccc&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:56%;color:#000&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
{|style=&amp;quot;width:280px;border:solid 0px;background:none&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:280px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;color:#000&amp;quot; |&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Welcome to FOSS Community  India,&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%&amp;quot;&amp;gt;meeting point of Indian FOSS Communities.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div id=&amp;quot;articlecount&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English and other Indian Languages. Arranged in &#039;&#039;[[Special:Categories|Categories]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%;color:#000&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Services| Services]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Projects]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Events| Events]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Infrastructure]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[BoFs]] &lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Communities|Communities]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Campaigns|Campaigns]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[SFD|SFD Teams]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[l10n| L10N Teams]]&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Email Lists]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[IRC]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Stuffs]]&lt;br /&gt;
*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[FAQ]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
Free Software Community of 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]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;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]].&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;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.&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;If you are an admin, then click [[Special:UserLogin/signup|here]] to create a new account.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:ScienceDay.jpg |link=http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/~sciday/sciday/scienceday.htm |centre|900px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:GNUKhata.jpg |centre|900px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{box1 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
[http://lists.fosscommunity.in/listinfo.cgi/community-fosscommunity.in Mailing List]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:mailman.png|centre|140px|100px]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{box2 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
[https://www.loomio.org/g/esPoQ4S0/fosscommunity-in Collaborate]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:loomio.png|centre|140px|100px]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{boxes end}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{box1 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== [[IfYouAre|If you are ]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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 &#039;piracy&#039;. 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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== [[Contribute|I want to contribute, tell me how to start?]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I like Free Software, I use it regularly and I want to contribute. I don&#039;t know where to start.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Contribute|Learn More]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{box2 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==[[High Priority Projects]]==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:High.png|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We need to provide Free Software replacements to proprietary communication services which can match feature to feature with their proprietary counterparts.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* List of [[High Priority Projects]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==[[Campaign for Document Freedom]]==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:140px-Liberate.svg.png|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.noooxml.org/ Say NO to Microsoft Office broken standard]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions MSOOXML-QUESTIONS] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==[[Anti-DRM-Campaign|DRM elimination crew]]==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:DBD_eliminate.Small.jpg|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{boxes end}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|style=&amp;quot;width:100%;margin-top:+.7em;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #ccc&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:56%;color:#000&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[GNU Labs]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Challenges|Challenges to Indian FOSS Contributors]]&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:56%;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Contributors|List of Indian FOSS Contributors]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Hackers|Hacker Community]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;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]])&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Comment about the FCI logo  [http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Image_talk:Wiki.png here]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
{{featured-contributor}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://lists.fosscommunity.in/listinfo.cgi/community-fosscommunity.in Mailing list]&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.loomio.org/g/esPoQ4S0/fosscommunity-in Loomio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Initiatives Planned ==&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Free Software Contribution 101 with j4v4m4n]]&lt;br /&gt;
#[[FOSS in Schools]] - to discuss and implment FOSS in schools.&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Unsupported Hardware]] - to collect data on unsupported hardware and offer them as projects to college students.&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Supported Hardware Configurations Database]] - to collect Hardware configuration details for Laptops, Desktops and other accessories which fully support Free Software&lt;br /&gt;
#[[FOSS project identification and indexing]] by Swathanthra Software users Group, [[Malappuram]]&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Campaign to promote free software in Karnataka]]&lt;br /&gt;
#Foss Community of India is celebrating [http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day] on September 16. [[SFD | List of participating communities]]&lt;br /&gt;
#Celebrate February as [[Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006|FOSS Month 2006]] (Feb 17th at [[Bangalore/MCC|MCC]] and 20th at [[Bangalore/SCE| Saptagiri]])&lt;br /&gt;
#Initiation of Student projects at various institutions in association with RedHat India. More focus on to make students comfortable in handling FOSS projects&lt;br /&gt;
#Formation of [[KDE|KDE Developer Community]] in India to be known as kde.in in association with Sirtaj Singh Kang&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=FSUG_Directory&amp;diff=10586</id>
		<title>FSUG Directory</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=FSUG_Directory&amp;diff=10586"/>
		<updated>2017-05-29T15:41:41Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Directory for FSUGs/ILUGs around the world ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| class=&amp;quot;wikitable&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin:auto&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! FSUG/ILUG&lt;br /&gt;
! Matrix (Preferred)&lt;br /&gt;
! Telegram&lt;br /&gt;
! Any other&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|ILUG ALPY&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ilug-alpy:diasp.in #ilug-alpy:diasp.in]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ilug_alpy @ilug_alpy]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|ILUG Kochi&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ilugcochin:matrix.org #ilugcochin:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ilugcochin @ilugcohin]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Kannur&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsugknr:matrix.org #fsugknr:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugknr @fsugknr]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|ILUG Kottayam&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ilug-ktm:matrix.org #ilug-ktm:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ilugkottayam @ilugkottayam]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Kozhikode&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-calicut:matrix.org #fsug-calicut:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugcalicut @fsugcalicut]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|SSUG Malappuram&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ssugm:diasp.in #ssugm:diasp.in]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ssugm @ssugm]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|PLUS - Palakkad&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#plus:matrix.org #plus:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/PlusFreedom @PlusFreedom]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Thiruvananthapuram&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-tvm:matrix.org #fsug-tvm:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugtvm @fsugtvm]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Thrissur&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-tcr:matrix.org #fsug-tcr:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugtcr @fsugtcr]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|RSET FOSS Club&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#rsetfc:matrix.org #rsetfc:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/rsetfossclub @rsetfossclub]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG at LBS College of Engineering, Kasargode&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://lbs.fsug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG at MES College of Engineering, Malappuram&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mes-fsug Mailing List]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|GLUG (Gnu/Linux Users Group) Meerut&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/glug-meerut Mailing List]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|NDBUG (New Delhi BSD User Group)&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://ndbug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Dubai Free Software Community&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#dfsc:matrix.org #dfsc:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/dxbfsc @dxbfsc]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Goa&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://goa.fsug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG at College of Engineering, Pune&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://co.fsug.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Pune GNU/Linux Users Group, Pune&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://plug.org.in Homepage]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=FSUG_Directory&amp;diff=10578</id>
		<title>FSUG Directory</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=FSUG_Directory&amp;diff=10578"/>
		<updated>2017-05-20T10:54:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Created page with &amp;quot;== Directory for FSUGs/ILUGs around the world ==  {| class=&amp;quot;wikitable&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin:auto&amp;quot; ! FSUG/ILUG ! Matrix (Preferred) ! Telegram ! Any other |- |FSUG Kannur |[https://ma...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Directory for FSUGs/ILUGs around the world ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| class=&amp;quot;wikitable&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin:auto&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! FSUG/ILUG&lt;br /&gt;
! Matrix (Preferred)&lt;br /&gt;
! Telegram&lt;br /&gt;
! Any other&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Kannur&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsugknr:matrix.org #fsugknr:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugknr @fsugknr]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Thiruvananthapuram&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-tvm:matrix.org #fsug-tvm:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugtvm @fsugtvm]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|ILUG Kochi&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ilugcochin:matrix.org #ilugcochin:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ilugcochin @ilugcohin]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|PLUS - Palakkad&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#plus:matrix.org #plus:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/PlusFreedom @PlusFreedom]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|SSUG Malappuram&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#ssugm:diasp.in #ssugm:diasp.in]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/ssugm @ssugm]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|FSUG Kozhikode&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#fsug-calicut:matrix.org #fsug-calicut:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/fsugcalicut @fsugcalicut]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|RSET FOSS Club&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#rsetfc:matrix.org #rsetfc:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://t.me/rsetfossclub @rsetfossclub]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Dubai Free Software Community&lt;br /&gt;
|[https://matrix.to/#/#dfsc:matrix.org #dfsc:matrix.org]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Friends_of_FOSS&amp;diff=10460</id>
		<title>Friends of FOSS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Friends_of_FOSS&amp;diff=10460"/>
		<updated>2016-02-04T15:33:27Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== What is it? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Even now, an age of relatively better Internet speed and availability, there are many in need of installation media of Free Softwares and support for installing them. The community once uplifted the sharing culture of hackers, which not only made sure everyone had access to the softwares, but also enabled new bonds and connections between members of the community, thus helping the community grow. So, it is the responsibility of the community to make sure that those in need of Free Software, has a pain-free way to access it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Friends of FOSS project is an old-school project to list out resource persons throughout the nation, who can act as provides of Free Softwares in their locality. Yes, this is not a new idea and was in practice in earlier times. But somehow, mainly with the advancement in Internet availability, it ceased to exist. This project not only makes sure everyone has access to Free Software, but also paves a platform where community members can meet those-in-need and discuss with them the advantages of FOSS and connect them to the rest of the community. So, it satisfies a sharing + caring + talking + growing blend of purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Find below a list of resource persons, categorized by State, whom may be contacted to get a CD/DVD/Image of Free Softwares (or to get information about whom to contact)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Resource Person Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Kerala ===&lt;br /&gt;
==== Kochi ====&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;&#039;Balasankar C&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
#* Mail : balasankarc AT autistici DOT org&lt;br /&gt;
#* XMPP : bsc@poddery.com&lt;br /&gt;
#* Softwares Available : &lt;br /&gt;
#** Debian GNU/Linux Jessie (v8.3.0)&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu 15.10&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu 14.04.3&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit)&lt;br /&gt;
#** Elementary OS&lt;br /&gt;
#** GnewSense 3.1&lt;br /&gt;
#** IT@School (32 bit)&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu&lt;br /&gt;
#** Linux Mint 17.1&lt;br /&gt;
#** Trisquel 7.0, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Thiruvananthapuram ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Maharashtra ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Goa ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Karnataka ===&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Friends_of_FOSS&amp;diff=10459</id>
		<title>Friends of FOSS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Friends_of_FOSS&amp;diff=10459"/>
		<updated>2016-02-04T15:32:53Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Add softwares available&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== What is it? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Even now, an age of relatively better Internet speed and availability, there are many in need of installation media of Free Softwares and support for installing them. The community once uplifted the sharing culture of hackers, which not only made sure everyone had access to the softwares, but also enabled new bonds and connections between members of the community, thus helping the community grow. So, it is the responsibility of the community to make sure that those in need of Free Software, has a pain-free way to access it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Friends of FOSS project is an old-school project to list out resource persons throughout the nation, who can act as provides of Free Softwares in their locality. Yes, this is not a new idea and was in practice in earlier times. But somehow, mainly with the advancement in Internet availability, it ceased to exist. This project not only makes sure everyone has access to Free Software, but also paves a platform where community members can meet those-in-need and discuss with them the advantages of FOSS and connect them to the rest of the community. So, it satisfies a sharing + caring + talking + growing blend of purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Find below a list of resource persons, categorized by State, whom may be contacted to get a CD/DVD/Image of Free Softwares (or to get information about whom to contact)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Resource Person Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Kerala ===&lt;br /&gt;
==== Kochi ====&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;&#039;Balasankar C&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
#* Mail : balasankarc AT autistici DOT org , balasankar&lt;br /&gt;
#* XMPP : bsc@poddery.com&lt;br /&gt;
#* Softwares Available : &lt;br /&gt;
#** Debian GNU/Linux Jessie (v8.3.0)&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu 15.10&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu 14.04.3&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit)&lt;br /&gt;
#** Elementary OS&lt;br /&gt;
#** GnewSense 3.1&lt;br /&gt;
#** IT@School (32 bit)&lt;br /&gt;
#** Ubuntu&lt;br /&gt;
#** Linux Mint 17.1&lt;br /&gt;
#** Trisquel 7.0, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Thiruvananthapuram ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Maharashtra ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Goa ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Karnataka ===&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Friends_of_FOSS&amp;diff=10458</id>
		<title>Friends of FOSS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Friends_of_FOSS&amp;diff=10458"/>
		<updated>2016-02-04T15:29:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Start page&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== What is it? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Even now, an age of relatively better Internet speed and availability, there are many in need of installation media of Free Softwares and support for installing them. The community once uplifted the sharing culture of hackers, which not only made sure everyone had access to the softwares, but also enabled new bonds and connections between members of the community, thus helping the community grow. So, it is the responsibility of the community to make sure that those in need of Free Software, has a pain-free way to access it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Friends of FOSS project is an old-school project to list out resource persons throughout the nation, who can act as provides of Free Softwares in their locality. Yes, this is not a new idea and was in practice in earlier times. But somehow, mainly with the advancement in Internet availability, it ceased to exist. This project not only makes sure everyone has access to Free Software, but also paves a platform where community members can meet those-in-need and discuss with them the advantages of FOSS and connect them to the rest of the community. So, it satisfies a sharing + caring + talking + growing blend of purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Find below a list of resource persons, categorized by State, whom may be contacted to get a CD/DVD/Image of Free Softwares (or to get information about whom to contact)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Resource Person Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Kerala ===&lt;br /&gt;
==== Kochi ====&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;&#039;Balasankar C&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
#* Mail : balasankarc AT autistici DOT org , balasankar&lt;br /&gt;
#* XMPP : bsc@poddery.com&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Thiruvananthapuram ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Maharashtra ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Goa ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Karnataka ===&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Diasp.in&amp;diff=10457</id>
		<title>Diasp.in</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Diasp.in&amp;diff=10457"/>
		<updated>2016-01-09T14:27:05Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Created page with &amp;quot;== Diasp.in ==&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Diasp.in ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Email_Lists&amp;diff=10455</id>
		<title>Email Lists</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Email_Lists&amp;diff=10455"/>
		<updated>2015-11-25T03:43:42Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Other MLs for quick reference&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Mailing list Address: &#039;&#039;&#039;community@lists.fosscommunity.in&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mailing list Web URL: http://lists.fosscommunity.in/listinfo.cgi/community-fosscommunity.in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Consolidated list of Mailing lists of other communities ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(These lists are not hosted/maintained by FOSS Community of India, but listed here only for reference)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing &amp;lt;discuss@lists.smc.org.in&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Free Software Movement of Kerala &amp;lt;fsmk-discuss@lists.fsmk.in&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Free Software Cell FISAT &amp;lt;ffsc@fisat.ac.in&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Indian FOSS Community Network list &amp;lt;network@lists.fosscom.in&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* FSUG Mahe &amp;lt;fsugmahe@googlegroups.com&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* FOSS Group of MES College &amp;lt;mes-fsug@googlegroups.com&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* ILUG Thiruvananthapuram &amp;lt;ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* List of Indian Debian Users &amp;lt;debian-dug-in@lists.debian.org&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* FOSS Club of Vidya College, Thrissur &amp;lt;vidya-foss-club@googlegroups.com&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* FOSS Cell of GEC, Thrissur &amp;lt;fosscell-gectcr@googlegroups.com&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* FSUG Thrissur &amp;lt;discuss-fsugtsr@freelists.org&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* FSUG Calicut &amp;lt;fsug-calicut@freelists.org&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=User:Balasankarc&amp;diff=10442</id>
		<title>User:Balasankarc</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=User:Balasankarc&amp;diff=10442"/>
		<updated>2015-05-10T10:43:14Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Add GPG Key&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;*From Kerala, India. &lt;br /&gt;
*M.Tech Student&lt;br /&gt;
*Free Software enthusiast and privacy activist&lt;br /&gt;
*Debian Maintainer&lt;br /&gt;
*GNOME Foundation Member&lt;br /&gt;
*Volunteer at Swathanthra Malayalam Computing&lt;br /&gt;
*Administrator at Malayalam Wikisource&lt;br /&gt;
*Localization volunteer for GNOME, Mozilla, Diaspora and MailPile&lt;br /&gt;
*Podmin at Poddery&lt;br /&gt;
*A coder, hacker, occasional poet and avid reader.&lt;br /&gt;
*Personal Site : [http://balasankarc.in Balasankar C]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&amp;amp;search=0x96EDAB9B2E6B7171 GPG Key]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=User:Balasankarc&amp;diff=10425</id>
		<title>User:Balasankarc</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=User:Balasankarc&amp;diff=10425"/>
		<updated>2015-04-24T17:26:52Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Created page with &amp;quot;*From Kerala, India.  *M.Tech Student *Free Software enthusiast and privacy activist *Debian Maintainer *GNOME Foundation Member *Volunteer at Swathanthra Malayalam Computing...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;*From Kerala, India. &lt;br /&gt;
*M.Tech Student&lt;br /&gt;
*Free Software enthusiast and privacy activist&lt;br /&gt;
*Debian Maintainer&lt;br /&gt;
*GNOME Foundation Member&lt;br /&gt;
*Volunteer at Swathanthra Malayalam Computing&lt;br /&gt;
*Administrator at Malayalam Wikisource&lt;br /&gt;
*Localization volunteer for GNOME, Mozilla, Diaspora and MailPile&lt;br /&gt;
*Podmin at Poddery&lt;br /&gt;
*A coder, hacker, occasional poet and avid reader.&lt;br /&gt;
*Personal Site : [http://balasankarc.in Balasankar C]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Save_Poddery_Campaign&amp;diff=7541</id>
		<title>Save Poddery Campaign</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Save_Poddery_Campaign&amp;diff=7541"/>
		<updated>2013-03-31T10:35:47Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Created page with &amp;quot;Wiki page for the Save Poddery Campaign  A well known name in the Diaspora world, poddery.com is facing a challenge. It is about to be closed down and fosscommunity is plannin...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Wiki page for the Save Poddery Campaign&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A well known name in the Diaspora world, poddery.com is facing a challenge. It is about to be closed down and fosscommunity is planning to continue the service. For that we are planning a campaign for collecting funds for buying a server and hosting the website there.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The campaign in hosted at indiegogo.com which can be found here -  [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-diaspora-pod-at-poddery-com|Save Poddery]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Objectives of the campaign==&lt;br /&gt;
# Raise funds for buying a VPS and hosting the site there&lt;br /&gt;
# Popularise diaspora ideology&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Funds needed (For 1 year)==&lt;br /&gt;
1. &#039;&#039;&#039;Server&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:*Server at linode.com - $868.20 (Approx Rs. 50, 000)&lt;br /&gt;
:**2 GB RAM, 96GB Storage and 8TB of bandwidth.&lt;br /&gt;
(Have to enquire prices &amp;amp; feasibility of other providers, including aws)&lt;br /&gt;
(If its linode, just transfering is enough).&lt;br /&gt;
:*Server at linode.com for backup - 65$ (Approx Rs. 3600)&lt;br /&gt;
:**100 GB storage, 64 MB of RAM, 200 GB monthly storage&lt;br /&gt;
:**Used only for storing backup&lt;br /&gt;
http://ipxcore.com/storage-vps/&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Total&#039;&#039;&#039; - $933 (Approx Rs. 53600)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Misc costs&#039;&#039;&#039; - $60&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Total round off - $1000 (Approx - Rs. 54280)&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2. &#039;&#039;&#039;T Shirt costs&#039;&#039;&#039; - $400 approx&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
3. &#039;&#039;&#039;Poddery expense&#039;&#039;&#039; - 9% or 4% of the total. Depending upon whether we arceived target or not.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Goodies==&lt;br /&gt;
#1$ - Name on &amp;quot;Donator&amp;quot; list of the website&lt;br /&gt;
#5$ - Name and Link to website/blog on &amp;quot;Donator&amp;quot; list of the website&lt;br /&gt;
#50$ - T shirt with poddery.com logo&lt;br /&gt;
#200$ - A banner containing a logo and link to website/blog on the homepage of the website&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==To Do==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Members of the campaign==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#Anish A (Co-Ordinator)&lt;br /&gt;
#Balasankar Chelamattath (Publicity Co-ordinator)&lt;br /&gt;
#Akhil Krishnan S (Publicity Co-ordinator)&lt;br /&gt;
#Nandaja Varma (Publicity Co-ordinator)&lt;br /&gt;
#Dhananjay Balan&lt;br /&gt;
#Hrishikesh K B&lt;br /&gt;
#Jishnu Mohan (Video Editing)&lt;br /&gt;
#Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (Privacy Policy/Legal Stategy)&lt;br /&gt;
#Joe B (Techinical Consultant/Previous Podmin)&lt;br /&gt;
#pavithran s (Operations)&lt;br /&gt;
#Praseetha KR (Creative Consultant)&lt;br /&gt;
#Haris Ibrahim K. V. (Editor)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Contributors&amp;diff=2391</id>
		<title>Contributors</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Contributors&amp;diff=2391"/>
		<updated>2013-02-19T13:25:49Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are trying to capture the list of Indian FOSS contributors here. This means, i suppose, Indians in India, as contributions of Indians in foreign is huge, and not a subject of the debate here. Also contribution to application software finds a place here. We could also think of adding background information on the developers. Like background: IT/NonIT, Profession: Student/Employee/Entrepreneur, if employee - MNC or local. Big or small. This may help pinpoint the type or person who contributes to FOSS. Also, an important one, is the person contributing code in the course of employment?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{featured-contributor}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There is another article trying to capture the [[challenges]] Indian FOSS contributors have to face.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Note: Please add your name in sorted manner.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abhas Abhinav]] -- deepofix&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Anand Avati]] -- freetalk, freehoo, gluster&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Anand Pillai]] -- HarvestMan&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Anant Narayanan]] -- Gentoo, PHP-GTK, GNU Parted, Plan 9 from Bell Labs&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Anil Gulecha]] -- Belenix, OpenSolaris Live Media, Nexenta Core Platform&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ankita Garg]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ankit Patel]] -- IndianOSS, GNOME i18n, Fedora&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ani Peter]] -- GNOME l10n, Fedora&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Anivar Aravind]] - Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, Moving Republic&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Anurag Seetha]] -- Gnome i18n, IndLinux&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Arun K. Rajeevan]] --  Malayalam l10n, [http://www.web2py.com/examples/default/who Web2py],[http://kra3.github.com/py-ga-mob/ pyga]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Asmita K]] -- Gargi font&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Baiju M]] -- ZOPE, Malayalam l10n, FSF-I&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Balasankarc|Balasankar C]] -- Gnome l10n&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Bhasker V Kode]] -- The Returnable Project&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Biju Chacko]] -- XFCE&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Balbir Singh]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Chaitanya K]] -- Festival-te, Swecha&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dinakar Guniguntala]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dipankar Sarma]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ganesan Rajagopal]] - Official Debian Developer (maintainer of ipsec-tools package)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Gautham Shenoy R]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Gopal V]] -- DotGNU, PHP-APC&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Gora Mohanty]] -- Indlinux&lt;br /&gt;
# [[G Karunakar]] -- Indlinux, Debian&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Joseph Koshy]] -- FreeBSD, Indic-computing&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Kalyan Varma]] -- Perl Modules, OpenSSL&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Kartik Mistry]] -- Debian&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ketan PAdegaonkar]] -- SWTBot, JCCTray&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Kumar Appaiah]] -- Debian&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Kushal Das]] -- Fedora, OpenPCD, Chotha, Ria&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Maneesh Soni]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Moinak Ghosh]] -- Belenix&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Monica Shah]] -- Devanagari fonts&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Naba Kumar]] -- Anjuta&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Nagappan A]] -- ldtp, GNOME&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Nagarjuna G]] -- gnowledge.org, FSF-I, GNOWSYS&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Nagarjuna Venna]] -- Padma&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Naveen Kumar]] - Anumaan, FOSS Guide to Localisation&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Parag Nemade]] - Indic Onscreen Keyboard&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Philip Tellis]] -- libyahoo2, ayttm, httptype, HTML.Template.java, getmail.com, rssyn&lt;br /&gt;
# [http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/User:Praba_tuty Prabakaran Thirumalai] -- Founder , CSQL  Main Memory Database and Cache&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Pradeepto Bhattacharya]] -- kde&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Prasanna Panchamukhi]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Prasad Kadambi]] -- Debian&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Prashanth Mohan]] -- ldtp&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Praveen A]] -- Debian Installer Malayalam Localization, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Pravin Satpute]] - Lohit fonts, Samyak fonts, ibus rawcode&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Priti Patil]] -- Marathi l10n, Janabhaaratii&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Rahul Bhalerao]] -- Fedora, Samyak and Indic Computing&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Rahul Sundaram]] -- Fedora Project Board member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Raj Mathur]] -- perl stuff&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Rajeev Sharma]] -- OSCAR, Linux with IBM i5OS, Zope&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ramanraj]] -- CALPP&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]] - Official Debian Developer, GNU Radio&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ramprasad B]] -- GNU Emacs, gnu.org, FSF, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ramakrishna Reddy]] -- entrans, IndLinux&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Ravishankar Shrivastava]] -- IndLinux, OpenOffice l10n&lt;br /&gt;
# [[RKVS Raman]] -- BharateeyaOO.o Group, OpenOffice l10n&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Runa Bhattacharjee]] -- GNOME i18n, Fedora, IndLinux, Ankur Bangla Project&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Santhosh Thottingal]]-- Dhvani TTS, GNOME Malayalam, Debian Malayalam, Aspell-ml, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Sayamindu Dasgupta]] -- GNOME, IndLinux, Ankur Bangla Project, Free Bangla Fonts Project, OpenOffice.org&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Shreyank Gupta]] -- ldtp&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Indranil Das Gupta]] -- Koha, DSpace&lt;br /&gt;
# [[ Sashank Dara ]] -- [http://code.google.com/p/lingua-franca/ Lingua-Franca]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Shivkumar G]] -- Belenix&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Shreyas Srinivasan]] -- GNOME, Evolution, OpenOffice.org&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Shyam Mani]] -- Gentoo&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Siddharth Agarwal]] -- Mozilla&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Sirtaj Singh Kang]] -- KDE&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Soumyadip Modak]] -- Debian, IndLinux, Ankur Bangla Project&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Srichand Pendyala]] -- GNOME, Java-GNOME&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Srinivasa Raghavan Kandala]] -- IndicIME&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Srivatsa V]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Srivatsan ravi]] -- Freenet&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Students of TCE college Madurai]] -- admin software&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Subramanya Sastry]] -- Newsrack, Servelots&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Sunil Mohan Adapa]] -- Swecha, IndLinux&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Suparna Bhattacharya]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Surekha Sastry]] -- IndicIME&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Suzuki KP]] -- Linux Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Swapnil Hajare]] -- Marathi l10n, Indictrans&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Tarique Sani]] -- PHP, Coppermine&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Varun Hiremath]] -- Debian&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Vasudev Ram]] -- [http://www.dancingbison.com/products.html xtopdf]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Vijay Kumar]] -- OpenOffice &lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Vincentvikram |Vikram Vincent]] -- GNU/Hurd, Debian-Installer, Swatantra.org, FSF&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Vivek Rai]] - IndLinux, Hindi l10n&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Vignesh]] - Swecha, entrans&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.fsci.in/index.php?title=Main_Page&amp;diff=692</id>
		<title>Main Page</title>
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		<updated>2013-02-19T13:24:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
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{|style=&amp;quot;width:280px;border:solid 0px;background:none&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Welcome to FOSS Community  India,&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%&amp;quot;&amp;gt;meeting point of Indian FOSS Communities.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div id=&amp;quot;articlecount&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English and other Indian Languages. Arranged in &#039;&#039;[[Special:Categories|Categories]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%;color:#000&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Projects]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Events| Events]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[BoFs]] &lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Communities|Communities]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Campaigns|Campaigns]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[SFD|SFD Teams]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[l10n| L10N Teams]]&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:11%;font-size:95%&amp;quot;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Email Lists]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[IRC]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Stuffs]]&lt;br /&gt;
*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[FAQ]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{box1 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== [[IfYouAre|If you are ]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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 &#039;piracy&#039;. 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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{box2 start}}&lt;br /&gt;
==[[Campaign for Document Freedom]]==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:140px-Liberate.svg.png|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.noooxml.org/ Say NO to Microsoft Office broken standard]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions MSOOXML-QUESTIONS] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== [[Anti-DRM-Campaign|DRM elimination crew]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:DBD_eliminate.Small.jpg|centre|140px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{boxes end}}&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[GNU Labs]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Challenges|Challenges to Indian FOSS Contributors]]&lt;br /&gt;
|style=&amp;quot;width:56%;|&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Contributors|List of Indian FOSS Contributors]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Hackers|Hacker Community]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;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]])&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Comment about the FCI logo  [http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Image_talk:Wiki.png here]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
{{featured-contributor}}&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/fci-l Mailing list] and [http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/fci-l/ Archives]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=21249585 orkut Community]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/global/uncorkers Uncorkers]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Initiatives Planned ==&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Free Software Contribution 101 with j4v4m4n]]&lt;br /&gt;
#[[FOSS in Schools]] - to discuss and implment FOSS in schools.&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Unsupported Hardware]] - to collect data on unsupported hardware and offer them as projects to college students.&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Supported Hardware Configurations Database]] - to collect Hardware configuration details for Laptops, Desktops and other accessories which fully support Free Software&lt;br /&gt;
#[[FOSS project identification and indexing]] by Swathanthra Software users Group, [[Malappuram]]&lt;br /&gt;
#[[Campaign to promote free software in Karnataka]]&lt;br /&gt;
#Foss Community of India is celebrating [http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day] on September 16. [[SFD | List of participating communities]]&lt;br /&gt;
#Celebrate February as [[Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006|FOSS Month 2006]] (Feb 17th at [[Bangalore/MCC|MCC]] and 20th at [[Bangalore/SCE| Saptagiri]])&lt;br /&gt;
#Initiation of Student projects at various institutions in association with RedHat India. More focus on to make students comfortable in handling FOSS projects&lt;br /&gt;
#Formation of [[KDE|KDE Developer Community]] in India to be known as kde.in in association with Sirtaj Singh Kang&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
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		<title>Communities</title>
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		<updated>2013-02-13T12:56:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: Undo revision 150788 by 91.121.27.33 (talk)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Notice&#039;&#039;&#039;: This is Web 1.0 way of categorizing, now we use &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;[[Categories:Communities ]]&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; to add pages to Communities category. This is the web 2.0 way !&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Check out the [[:Category:Communities|Communities Category]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|style=&amp;quot;background:#ffdead;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/little_league/ Little League on Yahoogroups] is a network for Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) campaigners to share information and news.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==State wise list of Communities==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Goa]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Karnataka]]&lt;br /&gt;
**[[Bangalore]]&lt;br /&gt;
**[[Mangalore]]&lt;br /&gt;
**[[Mysore]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Maharashtra]]&lt;br /&gt;
**[[Mumbai]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList/ List of LUGs, GLUGs, FSUGs in India]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Special Interest Groups==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
List of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in Indian FOSS Community.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Fedora]] - Indian Fedora Community&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Education]] - FOSS EDU IN focuses spreading FOSS in Education sector in India&lt;br /&gt;
*[[GNOME]] - GNOME Bangalore &lt;br /&gt;
*[[GNU| GNU System]] - GNU System hackers of India&lt;br /&gt;
*[[KDE]] - KDE.IN&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Python]] - BangPypers&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
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		<title>HOWTOs/Start A User Group</title>
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		<updated>2013-02-13T12:41:18Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: /*Sample Proposal*/&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Check whether such a group already exists, see [[Communities|here]], search on the  internet (keyword will be your place name + lug/glug/fsug). And if you find one that is not listed [[Communities|here]] please add it so that others can find out it easily.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Find out who are interested, ask your friends, colleagues, classmates...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Announce a meeting (use your notice board, class room, or wherever people get to see it). &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Discuss with them their interests, share experiences and how can you help each other.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Collect their contact inforamation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Create a mailing list for continued discussions. You can create a list in sites such as [http://www.freelists.org/ Free Lists], [http://groups.google.com/ Google Groups]  - no advertisements on posts, [http://groups.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Groups] - has advertisements on posts&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also you can create a community in online social networking sites like [http://www.orkut.com Orkut] and link to your mailing list in the description.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also add all the details about your your community [[Communities|here]] and use that page for co-ordinating with the team, say for arranging a meetup, want to conduct a poll ...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Conduct regular meetings and discussed the new exciting things you have done.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==A sample proposal==&lt;br /&gt;
This is a sample proposal submitted to start a FOSS Group in an Engineering College in Kerala&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;FOSSouls&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A FOSS initiative by ASIET, Kalady&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;What is FOSS?&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Free and open source software (FOSS) is software that is both free software and open source. It is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, copy, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. Here the term “free” does not mean “zero-dollar”, but it means freedom of four forms. They are&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).&lt;br /&gt;
*The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.&lt;br /&gt;
*The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).&lt;br /&gt;
*The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To remind this, the famous motto of FSF(Free Software Foundation) is used.&lt;br /&gt;
“free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Free Software provides the user complete freedom over the product. He can change it in any way he wants, sell it, share it, distribute it, anything he wants.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;What is FOSSouls?&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
FOSSouls is a sub-group of of the CSE Association, Technolegion of ASIET comprising of FOSS-enthusiasts from all classes. This group, primarily aims to familiarize students with Free Software and to inform them about the drawbacks of proprietary software. It also takes into consideration updating the members about recent happenings in the technical world.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Main goals of FOSSouls are&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Advocacy,&lt;br /&gt;
*Education,&lt;br /&gt;
*Support and&lt;br /&gt;
*Socialising of Free and Open Source Software&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Activities of FOSSouls&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
FOSSouls intend to conduct different activities related to Free Software in the college. Some proposed ones are&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Workshops and Seminars on various fields of FOSS&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on advantages of Free Software over Proprietary Software&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on FOSS alternatives to commonly used proprietary software.&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on Indian Language Computing&lt;br /&gt;
#Seminar/Workshop on Wikipedia and sister concerns.&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on GIMP.&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on Python.&lt;br /&gt;
#State level conference on different fields of FOSS world.&lt;br /&gt;
#Linux install fest.&lt;br /&gt;
#Conversion of computers in college labs from Microsoft Windows to Linux to avoid License problems.&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on Use of GIT. (Discuss how to make a Open Source project and put it out there.)&lt;br /&gt;
#Seminar on different types of Encryptions (true crypt, GPG)&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on SSH (use and scope)&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on MariaDB (FOSS Alternative to MySQL)&lt;br /&gt;
#Introduction of Alternative Distributed Social network DIASPORA and IRC- the new form of discussion&lt;br /&gt;
#Workshop on Cyber Security (using FOSS Hacking tools) and Anonymity (using TOR)&lt;br /&gt;
#Seminar on different types of Licenses - GPL, LGPL, MIT, Apache, BSD , CC&lt;br /&gt;
#Implement healthy changes in the college labs&lt;br /&gt;
#Conversion of computers from Microsoft Windows to Linux (Ubuntu)&lt;br /&gt;
#Training sessions to teachers for better use of Linux by professionals.&lt;br /&gt;
#Establishment of a technical support team to clear doubts about FOSS Applications&lt;br /&gt;
#Establishment of a mailing list to distribute important news about FOSS world&lt;br /&gt;
#Implement Open Source Cloud Computing, helping students gain easy access to study resources like notes, tutorial videos etc&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Functioning Body of FOSSouls&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The functioning body of FOSSouls will contain&lt;br /&gt;
*Staff co-ordinator&lt;br /&gt;
*Group head (student co-ordinator)&lt;br /&gt;
*Technical head&lt;br /&gt;
*Two volunteers from each branch&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Plan of Action&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
FOSSouls intend to conduct programmes on a bi-monthly basis, i.e one event per 2 months. Once every year, we will conduct a national level conference/seminar/workshop. There will be committee meetings on the third Friday of every month to discuss about the activities to be conducted. We also plan to maintain a mailing list and a BB Forum, to provide latest news and technical assistance to the group members. The details of events will be discussed with staff in-charge, HOD and principal and then finalised. Collaboration with CSI can also be considered so as to avail enough funds for carrying out the activities.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
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		<updated>2013-02-13T12:41:03Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Balasankarc: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Check whether such a group already exists, see [[Communities|here]], search on the  internet (keyword will be your place name + lug/glug/fsug). And if you find one that is not listed [[Communities|here]] please add it so that others can find out it easily.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Find out who are interested, ask your friends, colleagues, classmates...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Announce a meeting (use your notice board, class room, or wherever people get to see it). &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Discuss with them their interests, share experiences and how can you help each other.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Collect their contact inforamation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Create a mailing list for continued discussions. You can create a list in sites such as [http://www.freelists.org/ Free Lists], [http://groups.google.com/ Google Groups]  - no advertisements on posts, [http://groups.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Groups] - has advertisements on posts&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also you can create a community in online social networking sites like [http://www.orkut.com Orkut] and link to your mailing list in the description.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also add all the details about your your community [[Communities|here]] and use that page for co-ordinating with the team, say for arranging a meetup, want to conduct a poll ...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Conduct regular meetings and discussed the new exciting things you have done.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Balasankarc</name></author>
	</entry>
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