Date:17/11/2008 URL: 
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/17/stories/2008111753990400.htm 

Kerala - 
Kochi 

Universities to join hands for free software 

Staff Reporter 

KOCHI: The second national conference on free software that concluded at the 
Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) on Sunday decided to 
initiate
joint collaboration among six universities in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and West 
Bengal to promote the use and expansion of free software. The meet also decided
to set up a knowledge hub in Kerala based on free software. It will be managed 
by the Centre for Information Resources Management at Cusat.

A declaration adopted at the conference said that faculty members in these 
universities would work jointly for encouraging research and development using
the free software platform. 

The [EMAIL PROTECTED] project of the Kerala government will promote its 
Vidyamitra project as an online educational system based on free software.
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