Tech Selection 11 May 2023 Understanding the process of “𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” - 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 and 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 - helps us know how things evolve - species, businesses, and cultures.Let's start with a simple example of a giraffe’s…
Economy… #LearningFOSS-5.) Economics of Open Source Software 14 Jul 202214 Jul 2022 Free and Open-Source technology (FOSS) is primarily considered as a digital public good. Meaning it’s NON-RIVALROUS and NON-EXCLUDABLE. Non-Excludability is the very philosophy of FOSS and exists by design. An…
Tech #LearningFOSS-4 How to Monetise Open-source Software? 4 Jul 2022 Yagnanarayana Maiya is one of the founding members of Mavalli Tiffin Rooms who steered #MTR for three decades of immense success. One of the significant changes he got to #MTR…
Tech Coding For Fun. Linus Torvald’s critique of Indian coders 29 Jun 202229 Jun 2022 One of the major complaints from the global #FOSS community on India is that there are very less #OpenSource contributions from India.Linus Torvalds, the developer of Linux, gave a cultural explanation for this. Linus…
Tech… #LearningFOSS-3 How to do FOSS? 22 Jun 202229 Jun 2022 #LearningFOSS-3 I've been an immense consumer of FOSS softwares over the last few years. Especially, #Python, #postgresql and #QGIS. And I thought I'm an "Open Source guy" with that. It…
Tech #LearningFOSS 2.)Why use Free and Open Source Software #FOSS? 21 Jun 202229 Jun 2022 There are many enterprise softwares that solve our problems (developed by Microsoft, IBM, Tencent, etc.) Then what is the need to have FOSS alternatives to them? First of all, it…
Tech #LearningFOSS 1.)What is FOSS? 20 Jun 202229 Jun 2022 I recently joined CivicDataLab, where I'll be actively contributing to the Open Source Software. While I've been an active consumer and advocate of the Open Source Technology, contributing to it…