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Internshala announces free access to its online training programs for the students of Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh till 31st March, in view of Coronavirus situation.
Facebook School of Innovation is conducting a SPARK AR Online Workshop on 28th March 7-9PM IST.
Blockchain Webinar | Zubi | Tezos India has been postponed to 27th March 2020, at 8.00 pm IST - Apply here
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This is a curated list of free and useful resources, software and other offerings for those who are quarantined at home 🦠🔓(developers, students & for everyone) ⚡️ You can help by adding more contents by a Pulll request. Check the Contribution Guideline before contributing
- Movies
- Books
- Education
- Collaboration Tools
- Software Packs
- Online Hackathon
- Online Events
- Commuinty for Discussion
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit is streaming his documentaries free worldwide during the global COVID-19 crisis. Each Tuesday they are posting film on their website. We hope you enjoy them, and please stay strong.
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You get the most bang for your metaphorical buck with Amazon Prime. The free trial is 30 days, but not only do you benefit from streaming TV shows and movies, you also get musics too.
Visit Amazon Prime Video
Crunchyroll is an American distributor, publisher, and licensing company focused on streaming anime, manga, and dorama.
14-Day Free Trial of Crunchyroll Premium
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A telegram channel for free Audiobooks
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A telegram channel for free Ebooks
Visit bookwormET
In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on their platform.
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Audible stories are free now for kids and families. Available in six languages
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To limit the spread of Coronavirus, the governments in Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh have announced that schools and colleges in the state and the union territories will remain shut till 31st March or as decided and communicated by respective governments from time to time. To minimize the impact of this on the affected students’ learning, Internshala will be providing free access to its e-learning platform, Internshala Trainings, to the college students in the above mentioned regions till 31st March. The students can learn a number of skills in programming, data science, business, design, creative writing etc. on Internshala Trainings through its short duration online training programs.
Internshala has announced its 2nd Coronavirus initiative to provide free training to the children of healthcare workers. Visit this link for details.
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During the COVID-19 crisis, Unity supporting the community with complimentary access to Unity Learn Premium for three months (March 19 through June 20). Get exclusive access to Unity experts, live interactive sessions, on-demand learning resources, and more.
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Coursera for Campus will be available globally at no cost to any university impacted by COVID-19
How the program works:
- Access 3,800 courses and 400 Specializations
- Up to 5,000 licenses for enrolled students at impacted organization
- Institutions may enroll students in courses through July 31, 2020
- Students can complete courses through September 30, 2020
- Month-to-month extensions are available dependent on need
- Enterprise-level admin tools, analytics, and online support resources
- Features such as SSO and private authoring may not be included
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The social networking website is opening up 16 of its learning courses for free. Courses that provide,
- Tips on how to stay productive
- Build relationships when you’re not face-to-face
- Use virtual meeting tools and balance family and work dynamics in a healthy way
The company is also using its powerful platform to share news more broadly, help businesses use live video to replace onsite events, and deal with business continuity.
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During the current COVID-19 crisis, JSTOR and their participating publishers are making additional content freely available to participating institutions where students have been displaced
Visit Here
Effective immediately, CISCO expanded the capabilities of its free Webex offer in all countries where it is available, not only those impacted by COVID-19.
Here are the additional features,
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Unlimited usage (no time restrictions)
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Supports up to 100 participants
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Offers toll dial-in (in addition to existing VoIP capabilities).
Visit Webex
Zoom offers a full-featured Basic Plan for free with unlimited meetings.
- Basic plan - free
- Host up to 100 participants
- 40 mins limit on group meetings
- Unlimited number of meetings
- Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android
- Co-annotation on shared screen
- Group messaging and presence
- Instant or scheduled meetings
A participant does not require a Zoom account in order to join a meeting.They can just signup with the lnvitation link you send
Here is guide on 'how to host a meeting on Zoom!' Read here
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Multi-platform open-source video conferencing
At Jitsi, we believe every video chat should look and sound amazing, between two people or 200. Whether you want to build your own massively multi-user video conference client, or use ours, all our tools are 100% free, open source, and WebRTC compatible.
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Video messaging platform Loom announced that it is removing recording limits on its free plan (formerly capped at 25), cutting the price of Loom Pro from $10/month to $5 a month, and extending its free trial of Loom Pro from 14 to 30 days. These offers are valid until July 1.
Additionally, the company announced that Loom Pro is now free in perpetuity for students and teachers who are using Loom for classroom work.
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With fast, multiplayer screen sharing, Screen lets you work together like you’re in the same room.
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Slack is a meeting space, water-cooler, bulletin board, and phone-tree for your whole organizing team. It’s a great place to coordinate and collaborate, and a fun place to get to know your fellow organizers and activists, even when you can’t all be in the same room at the same time. It’s a tool that you can use on your computer and your phone to stay in touch with your team, and keep everyone up to date with the important news and goings-on.
Visit Slack
Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text, whether you’re part of a school club, a nightly gaming group, a worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to hang out.
Visit Discord
Adobe is making temporary at-home access to Creative Cloud available until May 31, 2020 for schools and colleges who currently have only lab access for students, at no additional cost. To be eligible for this access, your school or college must be a current customer with an active Device, Shared Device License, or Serial Number plan. This at-home access is temporary, and will apply to Adobe ID, Federated ID or Enterprise ID users in your Adobe Admin Console. The temporary licenses may be provided and removed at Adobe’s sole discretion.
- Only IT Admins can request temporary access for their institution.
- Each request will be evaluated and eligible organizations will be informed over email when access has been provided.
Visit Adobe for students
Due to the current outbreak, many people are avoiding gathering in large groups, including at yoga studios and other fitness spaces. So that anyone who wants to practice at home can do so, they are making all of their apps - Down Dog, Yoga for Beginners, HIIT, Barre, and 7 Minute Workout - completely free until April 1st.
Download Downdogapp
Affinity Graphic Design Software Free 3 Months Trial (Windows & Mac)
- A new 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite
- A 50% discount for those who would rather buy and keep the apps on Mac, Windows PC and iPad
- A pledge to engage more than 100 freelance creatives for work, spending the equivalent of our annual commissioning budget in the next three months (more details of this will be announced soon).
Download Affinity
Join 1000+ other people from India's tech, business and healthcare community and build projects to help minimize COVID-19's impact on India
Format
- Hackathon will run starting 22 March 2020 (Sunday) and will continue running until the COVID-19 situation stabilizes
- Teams will get formed online and hackathon will happen virtually. A platform like Slack is needed for people to discuss projects and form teams
- Each week it’s expected that teams will work on their projects after work time and during weekends
- There will be a demo day every Sunday evening where finished and work in progress projects will be demonstrated to a group of audience
- Demo day will be moderated by the hackathon organizing team but anyone is free to join to see projects
- Enterprise-level admin tools, analytics, and online support resources
- During the demo day, the organizing team and advisors will help any promising project with financial help or resources or guidance
- Prizes: To be Decided
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Kerala Police Cyberdome is conducting Online Hackathon “CODE-VID-19” to find IT based innovative solutions that can help Police in the fight against COVID-19. Inviting tech-community across India to come forward and contribute to this mission. Showcase your Technical skills to Stop-Prevent-Contain the Pandemic. CODE-VID 19 envisages to find technology based innovative solutions for the Police to effectively contain corona virus for the benefit of society. The last date of submission of your idea and technical solutions is 29-03-2020. The best idea will be suitably rewarded.
Register Here
This four-week hackathon challenges the community to create original GitHub Actions. Actions connect all of the tools in your workflow: You can solve problems, build containers, deploy to any cloud, and more.
How it works:
- Log in to GitHub to start tinkering around with GitHub Actions (you can also check out this tutorial).
- At 12:01 am PT on Thursday, March 5, start building Actions for the Hackathon!
- Submit your Actions by 11:59 pm PT on Tuesday, March 31. (Bonus: The first 1,000 valid submissions will receive free GitHub swag!)
Visit GitHub Actions Hackathon
The most important factor in preventing the spread of the Virus locally is to empower the citizens with the right information and taking precautions as per the advisories being issued by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Further, we are also getting inputs with regard to individuals and companies who have developed technologies and innovative solutions, Bioinformatics, datasets, Apps for diagnosis etc that can be leveraged for strengthening the fight against Corona.
In order to involve the community in the fight against the Virus, we would want you to share your solutions to help fight #Coronavirus . Submitted solutions will be evaluated for adoption and those selected will be suitable rewarded.
Last Date of Participation - 31st March 2020
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Omidyar Network India today announced a call for proposals for rapid response funding to tackle the challenges posed by the Covid-19 situation and the consequent socio-economic impact. We are committing Rs. 7.5 crore ($1 million) to this initiative.
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Facebook School of Innovation is conducting a SPARK AR Online Workshop on 28th March 7-9PM IST.
Students/Faculty/Professionals who are passionate and keen to understand the potential of AR and are interested in working with SPARK AR can apply.
Register Here
Mamta Kumari [Co-Founder PrepBytes, Former SDE Amazon, Samsung] will guide you on how to prepare for coding interviews & SWITCH to Product companies as Software Developer. Date & Time: 28th March 2020, 09:00PM IST
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The webinar is organized in collaboration with Tezos India Foundation and is scheduled for 27th March 2020, at 8.00 pm IST. Anyone can register for it, free of cost.
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A community made by makers and for makers! A great place where you can think, brainstorm, share, discuss and transform your ideas into the real stuff.
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TinkerHub Foundation, a not for profit, community-based organisation that works to create talents in emerging technologies.
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