Omshivaprakash is a Wikipedian, Mozillan, Blogger, FOSS contributor from Bengaluru where he has been involved in community building activities around Kannada & Technology. His engagements like Gnu/Linux Habba, Arivina Alegalu, Hejje has engaged young minds towards language technology. He writes technology articles in kannada on his blog Linuxaayana.net. Founder member of Sanchaya (https://sanchaya.net)- (a collective exploring the possibilities of using technology in linguistics & literary research) and Sanchi Foundation® (https://sanchifoundation.org - “Sanchi” is a not for profit organisation working for the documentation of audio-visual heritage.). Vachana Sanchaya - https://vachana.sanchaya.net is one of the very much structured linguistic research tool built in Kannada through Sanchaya's initiatives.With over 18+ years of experience in the field of Information & Technology, he has played significant role as a trainer, Infrastructure Management Specialist, CTO, Director for Business Development & Technology etc. He has currently penned a book on Free Culture & Licensing called - Creative Commons Kannada 101. Apart from being active around technology sphere, he has immense interest around literature, photography, trekking, cycling etc.
Accepted Talks:
ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಭಾಷೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಕ್ತ ಜ್ಞಾನದ ಆಕರಗಳನ್ನು ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಲು - ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್ ಆರ್ಕೈವಿಂಗ್
Digital archiving to build OER for local languages [Kannada]
Digitizing our art, history & culture has major impacts on our language preservation. It also add’s to the larger human knowledge and helps us build sustaining open knowledge solutions for the society at large. We at Sanchi Foundation ® (https://sanchifoundation.org) & a Kannada FOSS collective called Sanchaya (https://sanchaya.org) has been putting efforts in this direction for more than a decade. Last two years I spent time building Servants of Knowledge initiative in collaboration of Public.Resource.org & Internet Archive and it has helped us digitize thousands of books in 12 languages. Kannada has seen a largest number of digitized books & magazines ever since we started our scans. Lets take a peak at the quantum of data available under Creative Commons & Public Domain.
Lightning talks
This will be a collation of 5 mins talks. The following are the talks we will be hosting.
- (English) fabre.debian.net - Finding untouched bugs by Kentaro Hayashi
- (English) Gaming in Debian by SrujanaBotcha
- (English) Fun with Terminal by arvindraineni
- (English) Debian release party experience by Naveen Cherukupalle
- (Hindi) Open Source, Gaming and Game Development by minraws
- (Malayalam) Experience of debian for embedded and DIY projects by Muhammad Usman
- (Kannada) Digital archiving to build OER for local languages
More details about the talks can be found at corresponding links at https://in2021.mini.debconf.org/talks/page/2/