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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} \end{document} |
