[Ilugc] FSF talk, FISAT, Angamaly, Kochi, Kerala

[Shakthi Kannan]

Greetings!

* The final day of "Bharatham 2006" on Saturday March
12, 2006 at Federal Institute of Science and
Technology, Angamaly, Kochi, Kerala was cancelled due
to a fatal accident, the previous night, to students
from a nearby college. After the cultural festival on
Friday night, the students had left in their car at
around 2230. They didn't have control of the car at
one turning near a small bridge, skidded across, and
drowned in the river. The doors were locked and had
got jammed. Out of five students, only one managed to
escape. A tragedy to all students, faculty, friends in
and around Angamaly.

* Since I had come all the way, they just wanted me to
conduct an informal session for few minutes to the
faculty and few students who were there. I spoke on
free software and GNU/Linux. As a mark of respect to
the loss of life, I didn't take any photographs.

* I spent the remaining time with the students there,
and got to know more about free software activities in
Kerala, right from Calicut, to Palghat, Trichur,
Angamaly, Kochin, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram.

* Pramode (http://pramode.net/) is the inspiration in
Government Engineering College, Trichur and other
places in Kerala.

* Space Kerala promote free software and do good work
in promoting the same to schools, colleges, NGOs
throughout Kerala: http://space-kerala.org/.

* Thanks to Sumod (final year, ICE) for coordinating
with me for the past three weeks, and for the
hospitality offered.

We want to collaborate more with our folks in Kerala
and will organize more workshops in future. 

Regards,

SK

--
Shakthi Kannan, MS
Software Engineer, Hexaware Technologies
[E]: cyborg4k at yahoo.com              [M]: (91) 98407-87007
[W]: http://www.shakthimaan.com      [L]: Chennai, India

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