My Experience as a Volunteer and Workshop Participant {WORKSHOPS} When we first began planning Freedom Fest 2026, I thought my role would mostly involve helping with logistics – arranging rooms, coordinating speakers, and guiding participants. Freedom Fest was designed to bring together technology, open knowledge. One of the most exciting parts of the fest was the diverse range of workshops …
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Swecha AP’s stall @ 36th Book Festival – Vijayawada
The 36th Vijayawada Book Festival was held from 2nd January to 12th January 2026 at the Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium, Vijayawada. As part of this book festival, we were happy to participate with our own stall (Stall No. 86). At the stall, we showcased our work focused on : Our stall received an overwhelming response from students, teachers, academicians, doctors, …
Collaboration and Open Source Contributions @ PVP Siddhartha College, Vijayawada
We delivered a session on 5th Jan for 200+ students of PVPSIT-CSE Department on exploring open source, collaboration, and code contribution – not through heavy theory 📚, but by working together the way open communities actually do. We began with a simple exercise: students took a role play of developers and came together around a real problem, discussed ideas , …
Advocating for localised software and knowledge systems as part of International Mother Language Day
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 …
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 …
Be a Maker: Empowering Young Innovators to Solve Real-World Problems
Case Study from October 2024- By KLGLUG Team Be A Maker It is an exciting new initiative which was unfolding and It encourages children in government schools to identify the challenges they face in their daily lives and come up with creative solutions through brainstorming. Over the span of four days, the event fosters innovative thinking, helping the students approach …
Free Software and Open Knowledge Systems as a catalyst to bridge digital divide through Community Networks
I want to present our experience on how Free and Open Source Software and Open Knowledge Systems worked as a catalyst in our mission to bridge the digital divide through Community Networks. Dates back to 2016 when we advocated community networks and Freedombox as tools to combat surveillance. But later we went on to implement in rural areas as Public …