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  • Connect, Simulate and Innovate using Arduino on Cloud:

    This was a faculty awareness programme on Arduino on Cloud, organized by the FOSSEE project at IIT Bombay.  The event was conducted online on 28 November 2024 from 10 AM to 1 PM. We got more than 450 faculty members who joined from all over India. Arduino on Cloud service allows students to learn to use Arduino using any web browser, and does not require the physical version of the Arduino microcontroller.  This will be especially useful in situations where not enough physical boards of Arduino are available.  More information on the support provided by the FOSSEE project on Arduino and Arduino on Cloud is available here:  https://arduino.fossee.in. We also had invited faculty members, who had already attended this workshop, to share the experiences about the workshop and let other faculty members know how they are using the platform in their courses. The feedback of the event was very good.

    This was an event which was conducted exclusively for the Subscribed Colleges under Spoken Tutorial Project.

  • WOSET Conference:

    The WOSET is a well-known Workshop/Conference for Open Source EDA tools with hundreds of open source enthusiasts over the globe attending the event. The talk on eSim: An Open-Source EDA Tool for Education was presented on at November 18, 2024, 9:30AM(online) in the Break Out session. The session highlighted eSim as a free and open-source platform designed to simplify circuit design and simulation for students, educators, and researchers. Developed with a focus on accessibility and affordability, eSim bridges the gap between academia and industry by providing an alternative to costly proprietary tools, fostering skill development, and promoting the use of open-source technologies in engineering education. The paper presented in the conference can be found here.

  • Circuit Design & Simulation Hackathon using open source tools:

    NIT Jamshedpur and VLSI System Design (VSD) organized a unique circuit design hackathon to honor the late Ratan Tata. This event aimed to inspire innovation and excellence in the field of VLSI hardware design, reflecting Tata's visionary leadership and commitment to technological advancement. The event was from 24 October till 8 November 2024. The participants were to use only the Open Source EDA tools. One of the tools open source tools used by the participants was eSim. About 600 people participated in the hackathon with most of them using eSim. The eSim team of the FOSSEE project mentored these participants. Among the teams who completed the tasks, more than 20 teams used eSim. Two of the winners of the hackathon were past interns of the FOSSEE team.

  • Virtual Boot Camp for NASA Space App Challenge: Awareness session on R, OpenFOAM and Scilab:

    An awareness session on R, OpenFOAM and Scilab was conducted by the FOSSEE team for the Virtual Boot Camp for NASA Space App Challenge 2023, which is the largest annual space & science hackathon in the world. Space Apps is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, and others in cities around the world, where teams engage with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) free and open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space.This event was organised by Sandip University on 30 Sept 2024.

  • FDP on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) for Mumbai University affiliated Colleges:
    The FOSSEE Project along with Maharashtra College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai organised a one day faculty development programme on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) for Mumbai University affiliated Colleges on 13 July 2024. The venue was the F. C. Kohli Auditorium, IIT Bombay. Around 80 faculty members from various colleges in the Mumbai region attended the programme. The main themes were the FOSSEE initiatives like FOSSEE-GIS, OpenHardware, and Spoken Tutorials.

  • Awareness Session for Students and Faculty of MIT Pune:

    An awareness Session for students and faculty members of MIT Pune was jointly organised with the FOSSEE team on 11 July 2024. This was an online session. The FOSSEE resource people talked about the various software supported by the FOSSEE Project. They also explained how the students and faculty members  can contribute and get the benefits. There were approximately 50 participants in the event.

  • Talk on "eSim: An Open Source CAD Software for Circuit Simulation":

    A talk on eSim: An Open Source CAD Software for Circuit Simulation was presented at ETH Zurich on 11 June 2024 by Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, the Principal Investigator of the FOSSEE Project. The talk began with an introduction to Spoken Tutorials, the methodology developed by the speaker for large scale training on IT topics. The talk also gave an overview of FOSSEE's activities with specific focus on eSim. The talk was attended the groups of Prof. Luca Benini and Prof. Mathieu Luisier from ETH Zurich.

  • Keynote address at first UK-India OpenFOAM Symposium:

    The first UK-India OpenFOAM Symposium was organised in the online mode on June 7-8, 2024. This event was jointly organised by the University of Birmingham & Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur under the aegis of National Supercomputing Mission. The keynote address covered the ways in which the FOSSEE project is reaching out to both academia and industry in promotind OpenFOAM.

  • National Level Faculty Development Program on Opportunities in Geospatial Technologies :

    The National Level Faculty Development Program on Opportunities in Geospatial Technologies & Launch of Geospatial Mapathon and Hackathon 2024 was conducted on May 13, 2024 (full day). This was conducted in a hybrid mode with around 40 participants joining us on campus and around 60 participants online. We also launched the Geospatial Mapathon and IoT Hackathon 2024 in this event. The event was also attended by Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Prof. Shireesh B. Kedare, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Prof. Karbhari Vishwanath Kale, Vice Chencellor, Dr. Babasaheb Amdedkar Technological University, Maharashtra and Prof. Nazir Ahmad Ganai, Vice Chancellor, Sher-e-Kashmir Agricultural University of Science and Technology, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The formal launch of Geospatial Mapathon 2024 and Geospatial IoT Hackathon 2024 were done by Prof. Karbhari Vishwanath Kale and Prof. Nazir Ahmad Ganai, respectively. The video for the launch can be found here.

  • National Level FDP on Opportunities in Open Source Geospatial Technologies:

    National Level Faculty Development Program on  Opportunities in Open Source Geospatial Technologies by FOSSEE-GIS” and the “Launch of IITB FOSSEE Geospatial Mapathon & GIS-IoT Hackathon websites” were conducted on May 13, 2024. The event was attended by Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary DST, Prof. Shirish Kedare, Director IIT Bombay, and Vice Chancellors of two prominent universities (I.e.) Prof. Kale of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Raigad, Maharashtra, and Dr. Nazir, from Sher-e-Kashmir Agricultural University of Science and Technology, Srinagar to join us along with dignities from our partner organizations IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation, Survey of India, ICFOSS, Delhi Technological University. More than 50 faculty members attended the event.

    FOSSEE-GIS promotes the usage of GIS/Geospatial-based FOSS in academia and industry. There are more than 30+ skill-oriented, research-focused, and job-based ‘Open Source GIS’ initiatives ranging from foundational activities (FDP, NEP2020 Curriculum inclusion, etc) to industry-academia connect till job-fair and entrepreneurship that FOSSEE-GIS organizes, nationally. Currently, the FOSSEE-GIS team is actively engaged with 1000+ UGC/AICTE/ Central/ State Government recognized Institutions across India. For this year, the FOSSEE-GIS team has decided to focus on themes linked to 'hydrology’, ‘Climate’, ‘Nutrition’, ; Green Energy and Sustainability’, ‘Rural Development’, ‘Urban Planning’, ‘Transportation and Logistics’, ‘Disaster Management and Environment’, ‘Mountain Ecosystem and Economics, etc. The FOSSEE-GIS team mandates the adherence of the National Geospatial Policy 2022, Indian Space Policy 2023, usage of Open Source Software, selection of Indian study area, etc as the mandates for anyone who would like to participate in all initiatives.

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