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.
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.
