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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]]
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]]


If you are Bill Gates, what you can do to promote Free Knowledge and Free Software? Whichever role you play in the game of life, you can help promote Free Knowledge and help build a Free Society, [[IfYouAre|here]] you have some tips.
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'''[http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Featured_Wikia/vote#FOSS_Community_.2CIndia Vote] for FOSS Community, India to be a [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Featured_Wikia wikia featured wiki]'''.
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'''Join the [[Anti-DRM-Campaign|DRM elimination crew]]'''
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.


* [[GNU Labs]] - Free Software Development and Research Labs
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* Solving the [[Challenges|fundamental structural problem]] of the free software movement in India.


* [[Contributors|Indian FOSS Contributors]]


* [[FAQ| FOSS FAQ]]
=== [[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.


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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*[[FAQ| FOSS FAQ]]


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== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 12:29, 26 January 2007

Welcome to FOSS Community India,
meeting point of Indian FOSS Communities.
270 articles in English and other Indian Languages

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. More about FOSS Community, India

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. Here you have some tips.


Join the 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.

IRC channel for FOSS Community India is #fci on freenode. You can access this through the Wikia IRC Gateway (help)

Santhosh Thottingal


Every month we will focus on a contributor and will capture information about the projects they work on; comments from friends, colleagues and other members of the project. Featured Contributor for July 2010 is Santhosh Thottingal. He contributes to Dhvani TTS, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Silpa. He is located in Chennai, India. More information about him is available here. You can add to it as well.

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Initiatives Planned

  1. Foss Community of India is celebrating Software Freedom Day on September 16. List of participating communities
  2. Celebrate February as FOSS Month 2006 (Feb 17th at MCC and 20th at Saptagiri)
  3. Initiation of Student projects at various institutions in association with RedHat India. More focus on to make students comfortable in handling FOSS projects
  4. Formation of KDE Developer Community in India to be known as kde.in in association with Sirtaj Singh Kang