{"id":26064,"date":"2014-09-19T19:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T23:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=26064"},"modified":"2014-09-19T19:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T23:40:31","slug":"code-free-for-india-initiative-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/code-free-for-india-initiative-launched.php","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Code Free for India\u2019 initiative launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 19: <\/p>\n

International Centre for Free and Open Source Software at Technopark here has announced the launch of a new initiative called Code Free for India'. <\/p>\n

As part of this, programmers from free software community will be invited to develop tools and applications for desktop, nternet, mobile, cloud, and Internet-of-Things for use by the civil society, government and institutions. <\/p>\n

Software freedom <\/p>\n

The initiative is timed with the celebration of the Software Freedom Day tomorrow (September 20) by the Free Software Centre and the Free Software User Group here. <\/p>\n

The Code Free for India initiative will provide a broad umbrella for the free software community members and groups to address the local issues and needs, says Satish Babu, Director of the Free Software Centre. <\/p>\n

It will provide a platform for initiatives proven successful locally to scale up to state or national levels. <\/p>\n

It will also encourage the use of local language computing tools and contemporary free software technology, while keeping in mind bandwidth and device limitations. <\/p>\n

Annual event <\/p>\n

Software Freedom Day is an annual event coordinated by Software Freedom International, a non-profit organisation working towards promoting free software. <\/p>\n

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Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 19: International Centre for Free and Open Source Software at Technopark here has announced the launch of a new initiative called Code Free for India'. As part of this, programmers from free software community will be invited to develop tools and applications for desktop, nternet, mobile, cloud, and Internet-of-Things for use by the civil society, government and institutions. Software freedom The initiative is timed with the celebration of the Software Freedom Day tomorrow (September 20) by the Free Software Centre and the Free Software User Group here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}