Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE), Kerala, invites applications for its Small Research Grant programme to projects in the area of FLOSS (Free Libré and Open Source Software).

SPACE invites developers/researchers/programmers (practitioners as well as students) to propose projects in the area of FLOSS (Free Libré and Open Source Software) applications. These projects can be software development or research initiatives, or associated tasks such as localization or documentation. Some of the priority areas under this programme are :

- Local language computing - Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses - Education - E-Governance

Some ideas for your thought:

- OCR for Malayalam - Tools for School Education - Mini ERP for SMEs - Software for Microcredit for Self Help Groups

We are looking for original ideas as well as contributions to existing Free Software projects.

Please send your project proposal to

research-grant@space-kerala.org

or

SPACE 109 Mangalam Lane, Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram 10 Kerala.

a rough format of proposal available at http://space-kerala.org/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&...

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 advocating the use FLOSS for employment generation in Kerala.

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