GNU Labs

GNU Labs is a initiative based on a college,offically supported by The GNU project which aims for the development of science, technology, computer and freedom.The lab supports the free software idea forwarded by the Free Software Foundation and The GNU Project and supports the concept of the software being free and thinks that the sharing and freedom of user to study,share and edit the source code of a program is essential. The GNU Labs aims improvement of exsisting free softwares, development of free software,to aware public about the benefits and need of free softwares. The lab also supports the students inside campus for doing their final year project in and as free software.The lab follows a set of laws called as GNU Labs law,GLL which the lab volunteers should follow. These laws are not to restrict the benefits, but to make freedom a standard for the lab works.Any group inside an educational institution who support the views of free software and are ready to work in the conditions of GLL can make a GNU Labs inside there campus,and its most welcomed.

GNU Labs : Steering Commitee

 * C K Raju,H.O.D.,Information Technology,M.E.S.Kuttipuram.
 * Anivar Aravind,GAIA
 * Pramode C E,I C Softwares
 * Praveen A,FCI/PLUS
 * Sreekanth
 * Hiran Venugopalan,PLUS/VAST GNU LABS

VAST GNU Labs
The GNU Labs started at Vidya Academy of Science and Technology,Thrissur on November 1st 2006.

GNU Labs Laws [G L L]

 * 1) All software used in the GNU Labs must be Free software.
 * 2) All software which is released by the Lab must be Free software and should release under current version or any later version of GNU GPL.
 * 3) All the documents/manuals relased by the GNU Labs should be under GNU Free Documentation License.
 * 4) The Lab can give support to the development of Free Software that will run on Free Operating Systems and has licenses compatible with GPL-version-2-or-later licensing.
 * 5) The name of individuals who worked for a specific project should be shown along with it.
 * 6) Localisation will be done only for the Free softwares which works on Free operating systems.
 * 7) Software developed by the lab has to follow the GNU Coding Standards.
 * 8) We welcome the support, funding and contributions from outside communities, companies and groups but we are not willing to change these G L L for them.

Supporting communities

 * The GNU Project
 * FOSS Community, India
 * Free Software Users Group, Thrissur
 * Palakkad Libre software Users Society
 * FreeMe, India