Before and after images of the #IITPatna campus on #OpenStreetMap. The data was added by @ravi @contrapunctus and @rahulporuri during the #BiharFOSS conference by
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On the train ride back from Patna (#BiharFOSS), @ravi and I sardonically thanked Trump for the state of things in the US, which may have been why #GitHub disabled the #OrganicMaps repo and forced them to move to #FreedomRespecting #Forgejo.

"This will hopefully teach people why it's important to boycott #proprietary platforms. But why do people always wait around for such things to pass? #FreeSoftware activists had been warning them for like 10 years!" (Also...Sourceforge???)

I presented #Prav today at #BiharFOSS. The interactive demo suggested by @libreinator and @badrihippo was simple for newbies to understand and made the talk interactive.

The idea was to get two volunteers from the audience, one having #WhatsApp and the other using #Telegram, followed by asking them to send a text from WhatsApp to Telegram. After this, get a volunteer with non-Airtel number to send an SMS to me (as I use Airtel), illustrating federation nicely.

And BiharFOSS is a wrap folks! A sincere thank you to all of the speakers, the audience, and the volunteers for making it a memorable day! We hope that this is the start of a vibrant and active FOSS community in Patna and Bihar!

I will be giving a talk on #Prav this Saturday in #BiharFOSS, organized by @fossunited .For more details, check https://fossunited.org/c/bihar/2025 .

About Prav https://prav.app

It would be nice to see you there