SPACE and the free software community in the city organized public exhibition on free software and free knowledge on Education Freedom Day- 18th January 2014 at the bandstand of Napier Museum, Thiruvananthapuram.The exhibition showcased various free software and free hardware for education and privacy protection.
SPACE celebrated its 10th anniversary, with a talk by Richard Stallman, founder of Gnu project and a public exhibition on free software. Mr. Stallman was delivering a lecture on ‘A Free Digital Society’ as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of SPACE at Trivandrum Mascot hotel on 16 January 2014 .
SPACE's 10th anniversary celebrations got off with a lecture by Richard M Stallman on ‘A Free Digital Society’ today(16 January 2014) at Mascot Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram. He also released the 10th year souvenir of SPACE on the occasion.
Richard Stallman today met Mr Rahul Gandhi, Vice President of the Indian National Congress and shared his views on digital surveillance system, unique identification project, free software in education and governance in a meeting that went on for one hour. Mr Joseph Mathew, Secretary of SPACE also participated in the meeting. Mr Gandhi showed keen interest in Stallman's views on various issues relating to information technology.
Richard Stallman, Founder, GNU Project and Joseph C Mathew, Secretary, SPACE met Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister on 13 January 2014 to request his government's support for the free software movement. The Chief Minister endorsed the philosophy of free software and assured the team of his support. Earlier, the team had met Prashant Bhushan, social activist and leader of Aam Aadmi Party.
