Formula 1 and Kannda Wikipedia
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Accidents, Mechanical failures, Transmission and electrical failures, one last min engine blow out and safety care out 4 times on the track...wow what a eventful race
Kannada Wikipedia
On Sunday I was at the Kannada wikipedia awareness program which was held at Nayana Auditorium, Kannada Bhavan, Bangalore. It was organised by Hari Prasad Nadig and his gang. They actually got Dr U R Anantamurti to deliver the key note. Kick ass! Also got to hear Prof G Venkatasubbaiah & Nagesh Hegde.Then we had sessions aimed at non-geeks like how to enable Unicode character set on your XP( at one point of discussion we had a audience question asking if this process of enabling Unicode support works on a pirated version of windows :) ) and various flavours of Linux, a session on what Wikipedia is all about and lastly a "how-to" session on how we can contribute to wikipedia.
Basic stuff I would say, but what makes this event standout is, probably this is the first of kind, that I can think of, where in an attempt is being made to create awareness about the use of free online encylopedia to help preserve, promote Kannada language.
All-in-all, great work guys. I would say this is a great first step. I hope people will "pick up the gauntlet" so to say and contribute generously to the encylopedia, thus doing there bit to save this wonderful language.
Accidents, Mechanical failures, Transmission and electrical failures, one last min engine blow out and safety care out 4 times on the track...wow what a eventful race
Kannada WikipediaOn Sunday I was at the Kannada wikipedia awareness program which was held at Nayana Auditorium, Kannada Bhavan, Bangalore. It was organised by Hari Prasad Nadig and his gang. They actually got Dr U R Anantamurti to deliver the key note. Kick ass! Also got to hear Prof G Venkatasubbaiah & Nagesh Hegde.Then we had sessions aimed at non-geeks like how to enable Unicode character set on your XP( at one point of discussion we had a audience question asking if this process of enabling Unicode support works on a pirated version of windows :) ) and various flavours of Linux, a session on what Wikipedia is all about and lastly a "how-to" session on how we can contribute to wikipedia.
Basic stuff I would say, but what makes this event standout is, probably this is the first of kind, that I can think of, where in an attempt is being made to create awareness about the use of free online encylopedia to help preserve, promote Kannada language.
All-in-all, great work guys. I would say this is a great first step. I hope people will "pick up the gauntlet" so to say and contribute generously to the encylopedia, thus doing there bit to save this wonderful language.
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