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+\documentclass{letter}
+\pagenumbering{gobble}
+
+\begin{document} \vspace{-26 cm}
+
+\textbf{Free and Open Source Software in Education} (FOSSEE, http://fossee.in)
+provides free support on FOSS (free and open source software) to eliminate the
+use of proprietary software packages in Science and Engineering Education
+across India. The shift to FOSS packages will help educational institutions
+monetarily.
+
+\noindent Following are some important activities of FOSSEE:
+
+\begin {enumerate}
+
+\item SELF Workshops through which we provide help to conduct FOSS workshops
+
+\item Textbook Companion is a document for FOSS to use in academic institution.
+We have more than 200 Textbook companions for most of the Engineering and
+Science subjects.
+
+\item Through Lab Migration activity we provide help to academic institutions
+to shift their labs based on proprietary software to FOSS.
+
+\newline Students and faculty involved in Textbook Companion and Lab
+Migration are given honorarium for their efforts.
+
+\item FOSSEE team conducts International and National conferences.
+
+\end {enumerate}
+
+We promote the following FOSS
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item Scilab to replace Matlab
+
+\item Python, a scripting language
+
+\item Oscad to replace OrCad
+
+\item OpenFoam, a FOSS alternative to FLUENT
+
+\item COIN-OR for optimization
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+These endeavours are successfully moving forward through the participation of
+students and faculty of colleges and universities all over India.
+
+\end{document}