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The FOSS community in MESCE conducted a one day workshop on "Students initiatives in Free Software!!" on february 3 2007. Mr. Praveen.A who now works in Hewlett Packard and a big contributer to the soceity did the main speech. He talked about the problems of Digital restrictions Management and what students can do against these evils.Later students of final year CSE Mr.Suhail and Mr.Antony presented their project which was done FOSS. Earlier the function was inaugurated by Principal of the college Dr. K.P. Mohammed. Prof. C.K. Raju HOD dept. of IT and the mentor of all the FOSS activities in the college and Mr.C.P. Mohammed HOD dept. of ME Addressed the gathering and explained about importance of free software.
The FOSS community in MESCE conducted a one day workshop on "Students initiatives in Free Software!!" on february 3 2007. Mr. Praveen A who now works with Hewlett Packard in Bangalore and a contributer to the Debian Malayalam did the main speech. He talked about the problems of Digital Restrictions Management and what students can do against these evils and Advantages of doing a Free Software project as academic project. Later students of final year CSE Mr.Suhail and Mr.Antony presented their project which was done using FOSS tools and released as FOSS. Earlier the function was inaugurated by Principal of the college Dr. K.P. Mohammed. Prof. C.K. Raju HOD dept. of IT and the mentor of all the FOSS activities in the college and Mr.C.P. Mohammed HOD dept. of ME Addressed the gathering and explained about importance of free software.
 
More details of Akshara Malayalam OCR developed by Antony and his team can be found on [https://sourceforge.net/projects/akshara/ sourceforge project page] of akshara. The source code is available in [http://akshara.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/akshara/ svn].