Free Software Hardware Movement Puducherry(FSHM) is a volunteer-driven community of tech enthusiasts, activists, and developers practicing and propagating FOSS.
FSHM is a Free Software Movement operating in Puducherry under the parent organisation Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) which is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of India. Free Software Movements operating under FSHM are :
Social and Open Technology Community (SOTC) – Pondicherry University.
CRON – Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology.
Some of the major aims of FSHM are :
- Take forward free software and its ideological implications to all corners of Puducherry from the developed domains to the underprivileged
- Creating awareness among computer users in the use of free software
- Work towards usage of free software in all streams of sciences and research
- Take forward implementation and usage of free software in school education, academics and higher education
- Work towards e-literacy and bridging digital divide based on free software and mobilising the underprivileged
- Work among developers on solutions catering to societal & national requirements
- Work towards a policy change favouring free software in all walks of life
- Stop any penetration of software patents and methods which restrict the development, usage and percolation of knowledge