The concept of selling bottled water would sound ridiculous to the older generation who believed water to be free as air. Similarly, knowledge has always been held to be free. Software is a kind of knowledge and it has to be free, said Arun M, Secretary FSF-India speaking  at a seminar on Free Software organised by the Kerala Khadi and Village Industries Board in Thiruvananthapuram on January 13, 2008.

Insignia 3.0 Hackerdom, a three-day hacker meet organised by Department of Computer Science, Government Engineering College, Thrissur and Free and Open Source Community of Thrissur opens today. Krishnakant Mane will be the Chief Guest. The event supported by SPACE, Kerala IT Mission and CDIT will conclude on January 11. Visit http://hackerdom.in/

Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kalamassery will work jointly with SPACE in the areas of  social research and capacity building of civil society organisations and students in Information Communication Technology. This follows a MOU signed by SPACE with Rajagiri College. 

The Ernakulam Regional Office of SPACE will function from the premises of Rajagiri College. The two organisations have already jointly organised workshops for North Malabar NGO network on Free Software and Free Software based web development.

The International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Culture and Development organised by the Government of Kerala along with SPACE during December 9-11, 2008 was covered by various media in Kerala.