FOSSEE's Scilab training workshop at VTU-Karnataka
FOSSEE , a project based at IIT-Bombay, well known for promoting the use of Open Source in Education for students, has taken it a step further! The ‘Free and Open Source Software for Education’ program has, conducted a Faculty-Training Workshop at the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in Karnataka on 18 and 19 August, 2017. The University and its affiliate colleges brought together 11 teachers and 12 students to savour this superior quality instructional program. Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, the Co-Principal Investigator at FOSSEE in Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT-Bombay familiarized the participants with a detailed overview of the Open Source culture and its benefits to the student community. He even highlighted the various projects and activities undertaken by FOSSEE to encourage the use of FOSS in academia. With Spoken Tutorials , the teachers got an insight about Scilab , an efficient numerical computation FOSS software based on numerically sound libraries