Milestone

December 13, Gudalur SPACE has been functioning as a source organization in increasing the practical uptake of FOSS desktop and tools amongst the voluntary sector in Kerala and around. Here is the story of ACCORD, a mass organization migrated to Free software. ACCORD, a non-governmental organization set up in 1986 by Mari and Stan Thekaekara, is active among the adivasis of Gudalur area of Tamilnadu. Functioning as an umbrella organization, accord has initiated a mass organization called Adivasi Munneta Sangam (AMS).

September 17, Thiruvananthapuram As with the rest of the world,Software Freedom Day Celebration was conducted at SPACE. In connection with the occasion, there was a one-day training in GNU/Linux for a group of blind students. The students who had come from Cotton Hill and SMV Highschool got first hand training in using the GNOME desktop with orca screen reader. 12 students benefited from the training.

October 10, Mahe SPACE's reach to students not only confined to technical Institutes. SPACE team conducted a 2-day training at MG Govt. Arts College, Mahe on Possibilities of Information Communication Technology and Free Software. The students participated in the meeting got hands- on training on Intenet and its wide spectrem of utilities.The feed back from the 30 students attended the training has encouraged SPACE to undertake further training sessions in the non techinical institutions of the State.

SPACE jointly with Department of Electronics, Govt. College of Engineering, Trivandrum is organising a 10 day course on "ICT in Engineering Education" from 26th February 2007 to 9 March 2007. The course is intended to expose the teachers to the principles and practices in employing Information Communication Technology (ICT) in engineering education. It also aims to impart the basic skills needed for effectively using the state of the art Free Software ICT tools in their regular teaching. This programme is supported by Department of Technical Education, Govt. of Kerala.

A National Workshop on Free Software in Science was held at the Union Christian (UC) College during January 4-6, 2007.There were about one hundred participants including students, teachers and researchers from various parts of India. read more see the photos of the event in the gallery