Swecha Andhra Pradesh
Swecha Andhra Pradesh
On the 25th International Mother Language Day, we set out to promote software localization, and access to knowledge in local languages. With the help of our volunteers, we organised events at seven colleges across three days in Vijayawada and one online session to advocate for broader access to technology and knowledge in Telugu. We translated Aaron Swartz’s Guerilla Open Access …
Ever since we decided to present at the 35th Vijayawada Book Festival, one thing was bugging us. We needed to be a book stall of some sort but we don’t have any books to sell – other than the Balaswecha book we created in mid 2024. So we came up with an idea – an e-book store of works in …
The 35th Vijayawada Book Festival is taking place from 2nd to 12th January 2025, bringing together hundreds of publishers at the Indira Gandhi stadium. We set up a stall to present our initiatives, projects, our ideals and raise donations. Balaswecha handbook We presented our handbook we designed with the help of our volunteers at the stall which attracted attention from …
2025లో విజయవాడ పుస్తక మహోత్సవం సందర్భంగా రచయితలు, ప్రచురణకర్తలకు స్వేచ్ఛా లైసెన్స్‌ల మీద అవగాహన ఇవ్వాలని ఈ పిలుపునిచ్చాము. ఇంగ్లీష్ వెర్షన్ కోసం ఇక్కడ క్లిక్ చేయండి. జ్ఞానం అనేది ప్రతి ఒక్కరికీ అందుబాటులో ఉండాల్సిన ఒక ముఖ్యమైన విషయం. డిజిటల్ యుగంలో అంతర్జాలం ద్వారా సమాచార లభ్యత ఎంతో మెరుగ్గా జరుగుతుంది. అందరికీ అందుబాటులో ఉన్న ఈ అంతర్జాలంలో మరింత విలువైన సమాచారాన్ని, విజ్ఞానాన్ని చేర్చేందుకు మేము ప్రయత్నిస్తున్నాం. ఇందులో భాగంగా మీ రచనలను స్వేచ్ఛా లైసెన్సులతో విడుదల చేయమని మేము మిమ్మల్ని …
To aid our efforts in the Balaswecha initiative, we decided to create a workbook for school level students to help them in learning computers better. Our volunteers spent several weeks in designing the structure of the book, content, assessments, interesting quizzes, and a lot more. The contents of the book are entirely based on free software and we utilised freely …
What is Wikidata? “Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary knowledge base, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.” In simple terms, Wikidata is a database of structured data about anything in the world. But what is structured data? Structured data is something that …
The history One year ago, we visited some remote places in Andhra Pradesh, India where there is no cellular connectivity, to set up community-run, wireless networks. The idea was to provide access to offline-only digital-content with the help of freedom box server with a wireless local area network using long range outdoor Wi-Fi antennas. In some villages, there was a wired optical …