Website of Free Software Cell, CEC is up @ http://www.cec.ihrd.ac.in/floss
SPACE in association with Kerala State IT Mission conducted a seminar on Free Software for Kerala Development on the 23rd of August. Hon. Chief Minister Sri. V.S. Achuthananthan inaugurated the seminar, and Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and free software movement delivered the keynote address.
SPACE organized a two day workshop on "Building Community Newsletters with Free Software" at Vasudeva Smaraka Library, Chemaniod, Malappuram. The programme focused on building and organizing content for a newsletter, typesetting it and publishing it online with the help of free software. The tools used were Openoffice.org with Rachana font and School GNU/Linux.
Space has launched an online help desk for addressing technical issues in Debian GNU/Linux based systems. All the common problems are listed in the FAQ section. The site, http://support.space-kerala.org is open to all for viewing, but posting queries is permitted only for registered users. Presently, we are giving registration and support to all IT@School Master Trainers and VMEs interested in using/promoting Free Software. All the queries posted will be periodically added to the FAQ section for public viewing.
Radio Alakal, the first exclusive fisheries community in India is expected to start a daily 3 hour broadcast from May 1 2006. Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE) is providing the technical support for the project, and the content is made exclusively using Free Software.
Explore New Grounds with GNU/Linux Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE) invites applications from enterprising young professionals for one month internsive training on GNU/Linux System Administration and business incubation program.
Kerala Education Grid Project uploaded the Free Electron iso images and documentation. You can now download Free Electron from here
If you have any queries on Free Electron please join the mailing list
FreeElectron is a single CD customised GNU/Linux distribution containing the typical software tools required by an electronics engineering student or teacher.
SPACE, the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment, was instrumental in creating Keralashree (http://www.keralashree.org), the employment portal of Kudumbashree, the successful poverty alleviation programme of the Government of Kerala.
Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE), Kerala, invites applications for its Small Research Grant programme to projects in the area of FLOSS (Free Libre and Open Source Software). SPACE invites developers/researchers/programmers (practitioners as well as students) to propose projects in the area of FLOSS (Free Libre and Open Source Software) applications.
