Milestone

SPACE is conducting GNU/Linux system administration course for teachers of various engineering colleges. Course is conducted in association with Department of Information technology, Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, Trivandrum and sponsored by Director of Technical Education, Kerala. Around 23 teachers from around the state participated in 15 day course actively. Participants are provided with Debian GNU/Linux distribution CDs and free manuals.

SPACE-Kerala in association with the All Kerala IT Dealers Association (AKITDA) Malapurram organised a two day workshop on GNU/Linux. The workshop was aimed at enabling participating organizations to start providing better services in the emerging market of GNU/Linux Operating Systems. The event was conducted on September 11th Sunday and September 12th Monday at the Hotel Grace Residency, Malapurram. The workshop was attended by around 20 Hardware Vendors and their representatives from Malapurram. Majority of them were new comers to GNU/Linux.

Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture. 28th -30th May, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The Free Software, Free Society (FSFS)Conference, organized by Government and civil society organizations from Brazil, Italy, Venezuela and India, is scheduled for 28-30 May 2005 in the Southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of the province of Kerala.