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Software Freedom Day celebrations in Thrissur began with a meeting of Free Software Enthusiasts at the Chamber of Commerce. Before I write more about today’s events, let me share with you a great document written by Dr.Sasi Kumar:
Story of Free Software in Kerala
To add a bit more history to Dr.Sasi Kumar’s story - Prof. […]

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The list of selected projects for Google’s Summer of Code has been published! There are three entries from Govt.Engg college Trichur, three from MES Kuttippuram and one from Vidya Engg college. A total of 7 from Kerala (as far as I know).
Hiran and Mobin will be working for Swathanthra Malayalam Computing which has got […]

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Proposals include establishment of an International Centre for Free Software and Computing for Development, ITES Training Centre (in Kochi) and extension of Internet to all educational institutions and villages by 2010. Around 3,000 broadband-enabled information hubs called Akshaya e-Centres will be set up in difference parts of the State.

The policy stresses that Free and […]

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Shortly after the announcement of Saddam’s hanging, the highly `enlightened’ political parties of kerala called for a `hartal’ from 3pm onwards. There were protest marches all over the state in which G.Bush was symbolically hanged and burnt to death.
One can understand the protest marches - its perhaps the least you can do to show […]

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It’s high time that we start saying `Kerala, Goonda’s own country’.
Today’s Malayalam newspaper reports two daylight robberies - one in which money was stolen from a locked car and another in which a woman was robbed of the Rs.10000 which she had withdrawn from a bank. In both cases, the “thieves” had closely followed […]

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