FSUG-Kochi meet at St. Alberts College, Ernakulam

After a long gap I went to FSUG-Kochi meeting. We have got a new place to meet, St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam. I was a student of that college long back. Since the meet was on a Sunday, I couldn't meet any of my professors.

Aniwar of CUSAT shared his experience of Asia Source (http://www.asiasource.org/). Then we discussed what we could do to promote Free Software with the help of students of St. Albert’s College.

My suggestion was to start classes on free tools like perl, python, gcc etc. This could attract the students to the movement. Vimal wanted to give lectures on Free Software advocacy, first. IMO it may produce a negative result. Once they get used to the technology, we can tell them about the underlying spirit. They will accept it better.

Difference of ideologies … that is the main thing in Free Software groups. Unity in Diversity, with all the differences we unite to say one thing … we all love Freedom. Not only in software, in every aspect of life, we love to be free.