Co(de)mmunity!
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Community group runs weekly meetups and weekend village sessions since 2013, trains participants selected from 1,000+ applicants → 100 selected using separate tracks for engineering and arts students, and runs kids camps and cyber‑crime/digital‑literacy outreach across 100 villages 100 CLs. It builds practical tools: an Android one‑touch MP app for constituents, organizes Wikipedia hackathons, celebrates Software Freedom Day annually, and helps secure a government IT‑park announcement projected to create 5,000+ local jobs.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:46Tamil Nadu IT policy journey
- 3:00First Free Software Club
- 5:50Weekly meetups challenges
- 7:19Shift to structured courses
- 9:24Free Software rural villages
- 11:57Software Freedom Day
- 12:58Hackathons marginalized groups
- 14:04Free Software economy impact
- 16:50Vlug model growth
- 20:49Team acknowledgments
- 21:39Q&A replicating Vlug model
- 23:32Q&A volunteering
- 24:34Q&A starting clubs
- 25:59Q&A future goals
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