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 \documentclass{letter}
 
-\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
+\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} 
 \usepackage{graphicx}
+\usepackage{xcolor}
 
 \begin{document}
 
-\begin{center}
-    \large\textbf{FOSSEE}
-\end{center}
+\begin{center} \large\textbf{FOSSEE} \end{center}
 
-\textbf{Free and Open Source Software in Education} (http://fossee.in) provides 
-free support on FOSS (free and open source software) to eliminate the use of 
-proprietary/commercial software packages in Science and Engineering Education 
-across India. The shift to FOSS packages will help educational institutions 
+\textbf{Free and Open Source Software in Education} ({\color{blue}http://fossee.in}) provides
+free support on FOSS (free and open source software) to eliminate the use of
+proprietary/commercial software packages in Science and Engineering Education
+across India. The shift to FOSS packages will help educational institutions
 monetarily. 
 
-The flagship activities promoted by the FOSSEE team are:
-
-\begin{enumerate}
-
-\item \textbf{SELF Workshops} are Spoken Tutorial (ten minute audio-video 
-tutorial suitable for self learning) based workshops. FOSSEE has created various 
-FOSS Spoken Tutorials that are used for Self workshops conducted remotely from 
-IIT Bombay.  Students and faculty across the country undertake these workshops 
-where they learn different FOSS tools. FOSSEE offers domain expertise for these 
-workshop(s) and also set online exams that are conducted at the end of the 
-workshop. During the last one year, a total of 695 SELF workshops on various 
-FOSS tools have been conducted, training about 22,000 students and faculty 
-members. Post workshop(s), students post queries, if any, on \textbf{Spoken 
-Tutorial Forum }(http://forums.spoken-tutorial.org/) for any of the existing 
-FOSS series and are given quick answers from FOSSEE domain experts.
-
 \vskip3ex
 
-\item One of the major shortcomings of FOSS tools is the lack of documentation.  
-FOSSEE addresses this important issue by promoting \textbf{Textbook Companion} 
-activity by creating codes for solved examples of standard textbooks using FOSS.  
-It is available online  for free download and use and the contributors are 
-students and the faculty of colleges from different parts of India.
+The flagship activities promoted by the FOSSEE team are:
 
 \vskip3ex
 
-\item Lab Migration: As long as a college uses proprietary tools as part of 
-their lab curriculum, we cannot eliminate the use of commercial software.  To 
-address this issue, we have started the \textbf{Lab Migration} activity that 
-aims to migrate college labs using proprietary software to a FOSS only lab.  The 
-FOSS code created by a student/teacher is released in open source code for 
-public use. \\
+%first column
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} 
+\textbf{Textbook Companion}: involves creating codes for solved examples of standard
+textbooks using FOSS. It is available online for free download and use. The
+contributors of these Textbook Companions are students and the faculty of colleges from different parts of
+India. Students and faculty involved in Textbook Companion are given
+ honorarium and certificates for their efforts.  
+\end{minipage} \hspace{0.04\linewidth}
+%second column
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} 
+\textbf{Lab Migration}: As long as a college uses proprietary tools as part of their lab
+curriculum, we cannot eliminate the use of commercial software. The Lab
+Migration activity aims to migrate college labs using proprietary software to a
+FOSS only lab. The FOSS code created by a student/teacher is released in open
+source code for public use. Students and faculty involved in Lab Migration are given
+ honorarium.
+\end{minipage}
 
-Students and faculty involved in Textbook Companion and Lab Migration are given 
-honorarium for their efforts.
+\vskip5ex
 
+%first column
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} 
+\begin{center}
+    \includegraphics[width=1\linewidth]{images/self_workshops.jpg} 
+    \textit{\small Photo: Spoken Tutorial SELF Workshop.}
+\end{center}
 \vskip3ex
+\textbf{SELF Workshops \& Forum Support}: FOSSEE team provides domain expertise to 
+SELF workshop(s) which are conducted by the Spoken Tutorial project.  
+Additionally, the FOSSEE team provides forum support, ({\color{blue}http://forums.spoken-tutorial.org/}) 
+where the students post queries if any, post-workshop. The FOSSEE domain experts duly answer these queries. 
+\end{minipage} \hspace{0.04\linewidth}
+%second column
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} 
+\begin{center}
+    \includegraphics[width=1\linewidth]{images/scipy_2013.jpg} 
+    \textit{\small Photo: 5th Scipy India Conference.}
+\end{center}
+\vskip3ex
+\textbf{Conference}: Scipy India - an international conference on scientific computing
+with Python, is organized every year by FOSSEE since 2009. One of the goals of
+the conference is to combine education, engineering, and science with computing
+through the medium of Python.  
+\end{minipage}
 
-\item \textbf{Conference}: Scipy India - an international conference on 
-scientific computing with Python, is organized every year by FOSSEE since 2009.  
-One of the goals of the conference is to combine education, engineering, and 
-science with computing through the medium of Python.
-
-\end{enumerate}
-
-\newpage
+\newpage 
 Currently, FOSSEE team promotes the following software extensively: \\
 
 % first column
-\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
-    \begin{center}
-        \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{images/scilab_logo.png}
-    \end{center}
-\textbf{Scilab} is a free and open source software for numerical computation 
-developed by Scilab Enterprises, France. It is a FOSS alternative to MATLAB.  It 
-also includes Xcos which is an open source alternative to Simulink. The Scilab 
-team have successfully created more than 275 Textbook Companions and ported 12 
-labs through the Lab Migration activity till date. To increase ease of executing 
-Textbook Companion code online, FOSSEE has ported TBC on GARUDA cloud 
-(http://scilab.in/scilab-on-cloud). Please visit http://scilab.in for more 
-details.
-\end{minipage} \hspace{1cm}
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} \begin{center}
+\includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{images/scilab_logo.png} \end{center}
+\textbf{Scilab} is a free and open source software for numerical computation
+developed by Scilab Enterprises, France. It is a FOSS alternative to MATLAB.
+It also includes Xcos which is an open source alternative to Simulink. The
+Scilab team have successfully created more than 275 Textbook Companions and
+ported 12 labs through the Lab Migration activity till date. To increase ease
+of executing Textbook Companion code online, FOSSEE has ported TBC on GARUDA
+cloud {\color{blue}http://scilab.in/scilab-on-cloud}. Please visit {\color{blue}http://scilab.in} for
+more details.  \end{minipage} \hspace{0.04\linewidth}
 %second column
-\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
-    \begin{center}
-        \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{images/coin_logo.png}
-    \end{center}
-\textbf{COIN-OR} or \textbf{CO}mputational \textbf{IN}frastructure for 
-\textbf{O}perations \textbf{R}esearch is a project to build and support an 
-open-source software for operations research and its applications.  
-\textbf{Simpy} (Simulation in Python) is an open source, Python-based, 
-discrete-event simulation software. OR Tools at FOSSEE is promoting COIN-OR, 
-Simpy and other FOSS by developing tutorials, textbook companions and software 
-interfaces in Scilab and Python. For more details please visit 
-http://or.fossee.in
-\end{minipage}
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} \begin{center}
+\includegraphics[width=0.25\linewidth]{images/coin_logo.png} \end{center}
+\textbf{COIN-OR} or \textbf{CO}mputational \textbf{IN}frastructure for
+\textbf{O}perations \textbf{R}esearch is a project to build and support an
+open-source software for operations research and its applications.
+\textbf{Simpy} (Simulation in Python) is an open source, Python-based,
+discrete-event simulation software. OR Tools at FOSSEE is promoting COIN-OR,
+Simpy and other FOSS by developing tutorials, textbook companions and software
+interfaces in Scilab and Python. For more details please visit
+{\color{blue}http://or.fossee.in} \end{minipage}
 
 % first column
-\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
-    \begin{center}
-        \includegraphics[width=0.37\linewidth]{images/cfd_logo.png}
-    \end{center}
-\textbf{OpenFOAM} is a free, open source CFD software package developed by 
-OpenCFD Ltd and distributed by the OpenFOAM Foundation. Tutorials in the form of 
-web-casts, for self learning OpenFOAM have been developed by our team. These are 
-available free of cost at http://cfd.fossee.in.
-\end{minipage} \hspace{1cm}
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} \begin{center}
+\includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{images/cfd_logo.png} \end{center}
+\textbf{OpenFOAM} is a free, open source CFD software package developed by
+OpenCFD Ltd and distributed by the OpenFOAM Foundation. Tutorials in the form
+of web-casts, for self learning OpenFOAM have been developed by our team. These
+are available free of cost at {\color{blue}http://cfd.fossee.in}.  \end{minipage}
+\hspace{0.04\linewidth}
 %second column
-\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
-    \begin{center}
-        \includegraphics[width=0.35\linewidth]{images/python_logo.png}
-    \end{center}
-\textbf{Python} is a general-purpose interpreted, high-level, object-oriented 
-programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains.The 
-Python team promotes the use of the language through Python Textbook Companion.  
-Under Python Textbook Companion, 53 textbook companions have been completed. For 
-more information visit http://python.fossee.in/
-\end{minipage}
-
-\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
-    \begin{center}
-        \includegraphics[width=0.35\linewidth]{images/oscad_logo.png}
-    \end{center}
-\textbf{Oscad} is developed by the FOSSEE team at IIT Bombay it is an EDA tool 
-for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. Free tutorials of Oscad 
-are available at http://oscad.in/resources/tutorials.
-\end{minipage}
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} \begin{center}
+\includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{images/python_logo.png} \end{center}
+\textbf{Python} is a general-purpose interpreted, high-level, object-oriented
+programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains.The
+Python team promotes the use of the language through Python Textbook Companion.
+Under Python Textbook Companion, 53 textbook companions have been completed.
+For more information visit {\color{blue}http://python.fossee.in/} \end{minipage}
+
+\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth} \begin{center}
+\includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{images/oscad_logo.png} \end{center}
+\textbf{Oscad} is developed by the FOSSEE team at IIT Bombay. It is an EDA tool
+for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. Free tutorials of
+Oscad are available at {\color{blue}http://oscad.in/resources/tutorials}.  \end{minipage}
 
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