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About SPACE
SPACE, the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment is a registered society that has members from academia, IT industry, professional societies such as IEEE and Computer Society of India, and IT Administration of the Government of Kerala. The vision of SPACE is to promote Free, Libré and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in academics, governance and individual use, and supporting the use FLOSS for employment generation in Kerala.
About Hipatia
Hipatia is a world wide movement for freedom of knowledge, officially based in Turin, Italy. Hipatia, came up as a spontaneous coordination of people from all around the world that share a vision and a goal. And the vision is to have a global knowledge society based on freedom, equity and solidarity. Manifesto of Hipatia outlines this vision in detail.
About FSF India
FSF India, Free Software Foundation of India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India. Its goal is to ensure the long term adoption of free software, and aim for the day when all software will be free. This includes educating people about software freedom and convincing them that it is the freedom that matters.
About Kerala
Kerala, besides being the most literate province in India, is also a highly acclaimed tourist destination. Kerala has been recognized by National Geographic as one of the “50 Places of a Lifetime” , and is famous for its verdant landscape, wildlife, beaches, waterways and rejuvenation therapy (Ayurveda). Kerala boasts of three international airports and a well-knit road network. The capital, Thiruvananthapuram is situated at the southern tip of the 700-km province. The weather in Kerala during May has hot and humid days (35-37 ºC), interspersed with afternoon showers. The customary date of start of the South West monsoon is 1 June, after which there could be non-stop rains, with temperatures dropping to mid-twenties.
For more information on Kerala, see http://www.keralatourism.org