"Richard M Stallman, Leader of the Free Software Movement, will be visiting Kochi on 10th January 2008. He will deliver a talk on 'Free Software in ethics and in Practice' at the Union Christian College, Aluva..."

Photos from RMS' talk at UC College, Aluva in Kerala. He is welcomed with traditional drum band and he has his famous St IGNUsious pose.

I spent October 25 and 26 in Toronto attending the FSOSS 2007 conference put on by Seneca College.

Hampshire student and FSF campaigns organizer Kira shares the success of their ambitious project to help fellow students get started with free software. Hampshire College is definitely in a relatively good place in regards to recommending free software. The student group has managed to achieve two major milestones in the span of just two semesters.

Forget special sale prices on calculators and dorm room furniture, Fedora has the ultimate back-to-school offer -- a scholarship program for college-bound students who contribute to free software and the Fedora Project.

Seneca College students in the School of Computer Studies will work
within the Fedora Project while learning open source development and administration. As the principles and methodologies of open source are changing the software industry, Red Hat and Seneca College are committed to driving change through new models of computer science education.

Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation has followed the footsteps of Royal Roads University, Durham Academy, and Handsworth Grammar School by using Free and Open Source Software in their classroom. But this time, the school's administrators decided to take it one step further: eliminate all proprietary software from their computers and their courses and use FOSS exclusively.

Where most computer science departments emphasize theory and mention free and open source software (FOSS) only indirectly, Seneca College in Toronto, Canada, offers a different approach: a hands-on introduction to the community in partnership with the Mozilla and Fedora projects.

"In 1984, Richard Stallman founded a social movement known as the free software movement. The free software movement fights for the ability to control our computers as a cooperative community (as opposed to being under the rule of software proprietors where users have only as much control over their computers as the proprietor allows).