Subhashish Panigrahi

1332 points

Bengaluru

Subhashish Panigrahi (@subhapa) is the founder of OpenSpeaks, an award winning project that helps grow open resources to digitally-document marginalized languages. He co-founded O Foundation (OFDN), a nonprofit that works towards addressing issues that lie in the cusp of people, culture, and technology with Openness in its core. He is the Chapter Development Manager for Asia-Pacific at the Internet Society, and has worled in the past at Mozilla, Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program, and Wikimedia Foundation to deepen the growth of open knowledge/source communities across Asia. Follow Subhashish at @subhapa on Twitter.

Open Source Champion People's Choice Award 2015 Contributor Club Author Linux Open education Open science Creative Commons Ubuntu

Authored Content

8 challenges for improving the Indian-language Wikipedias

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Why it's essential to grow Indian-language Wikipedias

On January 15, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English…

Best of Opensource.com: Interviews

Many many interviews were conducted this year by writers and the staff of Opensource.com. Our goal when asking luminaries in the field of open source questions about their…

Internet access and privacy with FreedomBox

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Google's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software works for 248+ languages

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Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story

Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011…

Authored Comments

Somewhere in Mumbai in a moving local train.

psubhashish

5 Jan 2016

Internet access and privacy with FreedomBox

Thanks Srikar for sharing these links. Hope the readers find them useful.

psubhashish

3 Jan 2016

Best of Opensource.com: Interviews

Oh Don, I should be thanking you for writing such great articles including the interview of Steve which is featured in this post. Glad you like the round up, the bigger credit goes to Rikki and Jane. :)