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diff --git a/writeup/writeup.tex b/writeup/writeup.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd696be --- /dev/null +++ b/writeup/writeup.tex @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +\documentclass{letter} + +\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} +\usepackage{graphicx} + +\begin{document} + +\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 +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. + +\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. \\ + +Students and faculty involved in Textbook Companion and Lab Migration are given +honorarium for their efforts. + +\vskip3ex + +\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 +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} +%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} + +% 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} +%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} + +\end{document} |