Swecha organized a one day workshop on free software in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Andhra University College of Engineering in the department seminar hall on July 24, 2010. All the 115 students from the department who have attended the workshop along with the teaching and non teaching staff have been immensely impressed with the concept of free software, and the students have expressed their willingness to form a GLUG (GNU Linux Users Group) in the college. Under the aegis of Swecha, the AUCE Glug has been formally inaugurated by the Head of the Department, Prof. M. Shashi amidst loud applause from the audience.

The students were introduced to free software in the morning session. The various projects taken up by Swecha have also been emphasized upon. The students as well as the faculty demonstrated great curiosity during the interactive sessions.

Swecha organized a five day workshop on various Free Software technologies from June 30, 2010 to July 4, 2010 at MLR Institute of Technology, Dundigal, Hyderabad. 40 Students from various Engineering and MCA colleges across the state attended the workshop. The workshop dealt with training the students for these 5 days on - Preparing GNU Labs (Free Software Labs), Scripting Languages like Shell & Python, Content Management Systems (Web Technologies) like Drupal and Graphics Tools like Gimp and Inkscape and the Art of Programming. These sessions were taken by experts from Industry who are working on respective technologies which proved to be an asset for the participants.

The main aim of the workshop was to give an insight of how a Free Software developer community works to the students. Free Software Movement of India supported the workshop conducted by Swecha. We believe this workshop will help students to become passionate developers and contribute to ever growing Free Software community. The workshop also included a session on evolution of web as Web 1.0 to Web 3.0. Along with the technical sessions various non-technical sessions were also conducted on concepts like copyrights and patents.

The founding conference of Free Software Movement (FSM) was held at Bengaluru on March 20-21, 2010 which marked a historic development in Free Software Movement in India. Sixteen Free Software Movements (FSMs) working in various states and sectors came together and decided to form a National coalition of FSMs in this two-day National conference.

The conference was attended by 286 delegates from all over the country. The total participants in the conference, including the delegates is 1826. This is the highest number of participation in a free software event in the country. Eighteen parallel sessions have been conducted that dealt with policy issues, free  software models and more.

After extensive debate, the conference adopted a document describing the aims and objectives of the organisation, the scope of activities and structure of the organisation. The conference unanimously elected a General Council of 69 members, an Executive Committee of 28 members and 9 office bearers to finalise constitution, and other formalities.

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    నిత్యజీవితంలో కంప్యూటర్లు సెల్ ఫోన్లు ఇతర గాడ్జెట్లు  సగటు మనిషి జీవితంతో సైతం పెనవేసుకుపోతున్నాయి. కంప్యూటర్‌ లిటరేట్ అయి ఉండటం భావి తరాలవారికి ఒక కంపల్షన్‌గా మారింది. కంప్యుటర్ ఇంటర్నెట్ ఆవిష్కరణలు అనేక నూతన సాంప్రదాయాలకు కూడా నాంది పలికాయి. విజ్ఞాన సర్వస్వం ప్రజలకు అందుబాటులో ఉండాలి అని ఎవరైనా అంటే అందరం అంగీకరిస్తాము, కార్పొరేట్ కంపెనీల గుప్పెట్లో  కాపీ రైటు పేటెంట్ల వంటి అంశాల ద్వారా  విజ్ఞానం బందీ అవుతున్న నేటి తరుణంలో అసలు సాధ్యమయ్యే అంశమేనా అని తప్పకుండా అనిపిస్తుంది. కులాసా రయుళ్ల మాటలో చెప్పాలంటే  "వెళ్ళెళ్ళవయ్యా మా చెప్పొచ్చావులే చోద్యం" అంటారు . అందులోను ఐటి అంటే అసలు నమ్మసక్యం కాదు . కానీ ఇటువంటి ఒక నూతన సాంప్రదాయానికి శ్రీకారం చుట్టింది కూడా ఐటి రంగంలోనే.