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\large\textbf{FOSSEE}
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\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.
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\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.
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\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.
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\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}
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Currently, FOSSEE team promotes the following software extensively: \\
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\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.
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\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
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\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.
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\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/
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\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.
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