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Subhashish Panigrahi
Subhashish Panigrahi is the founder of OpenSpeaks. He is an educator; language, technology and community catalyst; author and public speaker.
As a community manager over the last six years, he led Mozilla's Community Development for Asia, and played various roles at Wikimedia Foundation and the Centre for Internet and Society. He shaped Mozilla's global communications for the Campus Clubs program, launched a research to measure the state of Open Source across India's top 20 tech, law and design universities; Built and implemented the Wikimedia strategic plans for India; increased Wikipedia’s reach (readers) by more than 60% (3x global readership) in and participation (editors) by 50% [as compared to ~10% global growth] in 6 Indian languages.
Winner of the 2015 Opensource.com People’s Choice Award for covering open source-related highlights, and awarded as "Wikimedia Advocate and Expert" by Opensource.com for extensively showcasing the Wikimedia community and projects. Speaker at TEDx and many international Open Source/knowledge conferences across 11 countries. Author of "Rising Voices: Digital Language Activism" “Digital Activism in Asia Reader”, and a few hundred posts on major global blogs.
http://openspeaks.com/author/subhashish/
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Series: 1. OpenSpeaks got wings with a National Geographic Society grant!
Earlier this year, we were lucky to be awarded an Early Career Grant by the National Geographic Society (NGS). When most of our work expenses were borne from out of pocket so far, this grant is going to shape some of our on-ground digital documentation activities. The larger focus of the documentation will be to […]