As part of the Second International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture an exhibition for students and public on free software philosophy and projects will be conducted during 9-11,December 2008 at Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds. The "Freedom Expo 2008 " is envisaged to showcase the history and importance of free software movements in the world through it's poster exhibition and free software projects demonstration. The IT policy of Govt. of Kerala had ascertained the role of free software in e-governance, education, health etc. The successful examples of Kerala Govt. initiatives like ORUMA, INSIGHT etc,will be displayed in this exhibition.  The exposure  to the state-of-the art open source technologies will be a great opportunity for both student community and common men.Some of the highlights of the event are 

•     Install Fest and Repository
•     Malayalam Computing
•     Copy Left- Open Access
•     General Word Processing Applications
•     Graphics and Video Editing
•     Scientific Computing
•     Games and Educational Software
•     Open Hardware
•     Computing For Disabled
•     Open Movie Fest 2008

Some of the supporting volunteering organizations are GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum, Free Software Users Group Calicut.,GNU/Linux User Group Cochin and FSUG Thrissur. ,Free Software Cell,Govt.Engg.College,Barton Hill,Trivandrum,Swathanthra Malayalam Computing,National Institute of Technology,Calicut, MES Engg. College,Kuttipuram,etc. 

• Exhibition timing all days            2.00PM-8 PM
• Admission - Open to All

Freedom Poster Expo