Empowering Grassroots Initiatives through Wikimedia
PRESENTER
Vijayalakshmi
Executive Member of
VGLUG FOUNDATION
Viluppuram GNU/Linux Users Group (VGLUG) is a non profit organization started in 2013, Impression of worldwide Free and Open Source Software movement.
This organization is a social movement that works towards enlightening the masses with the essence of free software and to liberate knowledge. Our main objectives are to take forward free software and its ideological implications to all corners of our country from the developed domains to the underprivileged.
To create awareness among computer users in the use of free software, to take forward implementation and usage of free software in villages, school education, higher education, academic and industrial research, etc.
VGLUG Foundation
FOSS
into the
MASS
WEEKLY MEETUPS
Engineering students
Python
Linux admin
Arts and science students
Python
What we can provide to the people with FOSS
100 Villages 100 GLUGS
Fake News
Awareness
Cyber Crime
Awareness
Digital Literacy
SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY
We celebrate SFD every year which helps us to take FOSS into general public. Through this event, we are training the students to learn more about foss tools, alternatives, etc., and how to out reach importance of foss among the general public
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Wikimedia Hackathon
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Summer Camp
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Python Hackathon
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Winter Camp
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Kids camp
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Photo walk
EVENTS
Photowalk
Wikimedia Hackathon
Mini Debian Conference Tamil Nadu - 2023
Ebooks stall in Book fair
MASS INTO THE FOSS
QuickWikiEdit
QuickWikitionary
WikiBulky
Other Contibutions
Chat with wiki
Wikisource Edit count - 53,646+
FOSS becoming as BOSS
Ensuring the livelihood of under privileged people
Dream BIG
Recognitions
Thank You!
Website : https://vglug.org
Blog : https://vglug.org/blog
Social media links:
https://linkedin.com/company/vglug
https://youtube.com/VGLUG
https://www.facebook.com/vpmglug
https://twitter.com/vpmglug
https://instagram.com/vglugI
https://t.me/vpmglug/1264
Copy of Minimal
By viji sulochana
