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 …
Category: FOSS
Call for Action for Liberating Knowledge: Building Community Digital Libraries for All
The entire world’s knowledge can now be accessed over the internet or through digital infrastructure. Computers and IT being the central for the development today, there is a huge gap persisting in society as many are not in reach or having access to digital knowledge systems and learning environments. To bridge this divide, Swecha AP proposes to set up ‘Community …
Request to release your works under open licenses
This call for open licensing was given for authors and publishers during the Vijayawada Book Festival in 2025. For the Telugu version, click here. Knowledge is a public good which should be accessible for everyone. In the digital age, availability of information over the internet leads to better access and progress. Open licensing is one of the best ways to …
మీ ప్రచురణలను స్వేచ్ఛా లైసెన్స్ల క్రింద విడుదల చేయమని అభ్యర్థన
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 …
My Social Internship Experience with KLGLUG and Swecha AP
This post was written as part of the KLU Social Internship organised by Swecha Andhra Pradesh. See outreach dashboard of this internship for metrics or our page on meta.wikimedia.org for more of our activities in Wikimedia. Introduction I am B Suraj Patra, a first-year CSE student at K L University, and recently, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in …
From Proprietary to Open Source: Navigating the Software License Maze
Keys depecting licenses. Photo by plenty.r., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This post was written as part of Summer Internship 2024 Imagine you’ve created a new software tool to help small businesses with customer support. You’re excited to share it with others, but you also want to make sure your hard work is protected and that people use it …
Contribute to Wikidata and win prizes!
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 …