Subsequently Free software users groups were formed in some of the different cities like Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and around engineering colleges[2] in the state.
[19][20] The Kerala Khadi and Village Industries Board moved to a Free software platform[21] built by Keltron.
[24] SPACE has been involved in policy formulation, consultation, training and technical support for projects like IT@School, ORUMA, Khadi Board migration etc.
[25] The agency has also been running a center called INSIGHT which is actively pursuing taking Free software to the differently abled.
[27] SMC is the upstream maintainers for Malayalam fonts and tools[27] for popular GNU/Linux based operating systems such as Fedora and Debian.
International Center for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) has been responsible for organizing the last two editions of the conference.
The students of National Institute of Technology Calicut conducts an annual Free Software conference called FOSSMeet, which is held on the campus during the month of February/March every year.