On Dec 21st & 22nd 2015, ICFOSS and SPACE partnered in conducting FOSS Young Professional Meet 2015 on Internet of Things with Open Source Hardware. This was a two-day program for engineering college students and free software enthusiasts. Here, SPACE conducted two sessions and put up a stall.
A workshop on GNU/Linux from scratch was conducted on 10th and 11th of October 2015 in SPACE. About 13 students from College of Engineering Trivandrum participated in this event. On the first day they built tools for compilation by using host system and on the second day they built and installed various packages. During these two days of workshop they attempted to build an entire GNU/Linux system from its source code.
Speaking Up for the LGBT Community: SPACE contributed one chapter to Global Information Society (GIS) Watch 2015 on the theme of sexual rights and the Internet.
Workshops in LaTeX, a document preparation system, is being planned in the coming weeks. Those who are interested may please register here. You can choose your convenient timing at the time of registration from between two options: weekend course (Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 4) and week-day course (Monday to Friday 6 pm to 7 pm). In either case a fee of Rs.1000/- is to be paid half in advance and half at the end. You can pay either by draft/cash(directly or by post).
1st HackerSPACE training program was successfully completed this month. The two-month long Python training program started in Dec 2014. 8 girls successfully completed the training program. ZestyBeanz Technologies provided financial support for the training program. Training was led by Dr Lalitha Prasad, former Head of Corporate Learning Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, Trivandrum. Experts from ZestyBeanz and SPACE also gave lectures to the participants.
SPACE-KERALA, in partnership with Global Fund for Women, led the IGNITE International Girls Hackathon event, organized by Global Fund for Women, in India - one of the hackathon event locations, at SPACE, Kerala on February 13-16, 2015. Four different teams of girl coders joined their hands to contribute their talent, ideas, and creativity to build real world solutions to a critical challenge facing women and girls: access to safe spaces.They came up with a prototype of a website and an application that addresses the challenge of giving girls more and better access to safe spaces.
Hackathon to give girls more and better access to “safe spaces” globally SPACE-KERALA is thrilled to partner with Global Fund for Women on the IGNITE International Girls Hackathon to bring together girl coders from around the world. We are leading the India Hackathon event February 14-15, where girls will contribute their talent, ideas, and creativity to build real world solutions to a critical challenge facing women and girls: access to safe spaces.
On January 14th, 2015, an Orca-enabled GNU/Linux lab for visually challenged students was inaugurated by Kerala’s Minister for Social Welfare Dr.M.K.Muneer at GCTE, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram. Lab was setup with the technical support from SPACE. During the function visually challenged Orca trainer C.N.Sukumaran demonstrated how the screen reader is being used.
A workshop on audio editing software Audacity was conducted on December 21st 2014 at Wayanad in association with MSSRF CAbC Wayanad and their project ECAS (Every Child A Scientist) community radio. ECAS Radio is a children’s initiative – a community radio run by twelve children, who were the participants of this workshop.
Swathanthra 2014, the 5th International Free Software Conference, partnered by SPACE, took place from December 18th to 20th at Thiruvananthapuram with the theme ‘Free Software for a Free World’. The penultimate day of the conference featured a session called Freedom on the Cloud, with discussions on issues related to cloud computing, surveillance and privacy, chaired by SPACE Executive Director Arun.
