Richard M. Stallman (Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation) is coming down to SJCET Palai for a seminar in connection with Swathanthra 1.0  a one day free Software fest on Thursday, September 9, 2010. Swathanthra 1.0 is organized by Swathanthra, which is the free software users group of SJCET. Richard M Stallman will inaugurate this group officially and will be delivering a speech on the topic “Free Software and your freedom”.

Stallman will also attend the  conference on FOSS(Free and Open Source Software) in Education at Calicut on September 10-12, 2010.