Recent Blogs
Self Hosting, Federation and end-to-end encryption - Freedom and privacy in the 'cloud'
September 27, 2021
Now-a-days, a lot of apps that we run are not even installed in our own computers. When you visit Google Docs through a browser, the software Google Docs is not installed in your computer, rather it is running on someone else’s computers (in this case, Google).
Open Letter to teachers of Kerala
August 29, 2021
TL;DR: Google’s free-of-cost offer of G-Suite to Kerala schools is a scheme to make more customers for G-Suite, retain their monopoly power in the ad business and search engines.
Announcing Software Freedom Camp 2021 (Diversity Edition)
July 30, 2021
Software Freedom Camp (Diversity Edition) 2021 is an online mentorship programme focusing on diversity organized by Free Software Community of India and inspired by Free Software Camp 2020 and Outreachy.
Poddery
Poddery, one of the earliest diaspora social networking hosts, is a community-run distributed social-network maintained by FSCI. Apart from Diaspora, poddery.com also offers Matrix and XMPP services.
Poddery Diaspora Instance
Diaspora is a culture. A culture against the loss of personal privacy by the corporate social network giants. Diaspora enables you to keep your data with you and provides the flexibility to choose what you share. Since your data is stored on distributed servers and not a single company's servers you are in more control of your data.
Poddery Matrix Instance
Matrix is a decentralised instant messenger which supports end-to-end encryption, voice and video call and file sharing. You can connect with your friends and communities here. Matrix by default allows you to integrate with IRC and other communication medias. Riot is a client-side application with slack-like interface and markdown support.
Matrix Clients
XMPP
Poddery supports chatting and video and voice calls among your contacts in Diaspora and anybody with an account on a service supporting XMPP. You need to enable chat on your Poddery account to make use of it. There are many free clients available for PC, tablet or mobile devices. Get one for your device from the link below.
Other services provided by FSCI
FSCI Wiki
FSCI maintains a MediaWiki instance at wiki.fsci.in which acts as a 'decentralised central resource' as every one gets to fill in their parts and one could find all parts in one place.
Visit FSCI Wiki
Free Software User Groups
FSCI maintains a list of various Free Software User Groups across India at fsug.in. FSCI also provides free sub-domains for such communities.
Git Repository Hosting
FSCI runs a free instance of GitLab Community Edition at git.fosscommunity.in. GitLab is a powerful platform for collaborative software development.
Git Repository
Mailing Lists
FSCI maintains a GNU Mailman instance at lists.fsci.in. A mailing list helps us to broadcast emails to a list of e-mail addresses of people that are members of the same work group or interested in the same subject.
FSCI Mailing Lists
Collaborative Decision Making
codema (Collaborative Decision Making) is a Loomio instance maintained by FSCI at codema.in. It helps us to initiate discussions and put up proposals on which users can vote.
CODEMA.IN
Group Voice/Video Meeting
Jitsi Meet is a privacy respecting, 100% Free Software video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, with no account needed. FSCI maintains a Jitsi Meet instance at meet.fsci.in .
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