FOSSEE Events

FOSSEE Summer Fellowship is a regular fellowship activity conducted by the FOSSEE project during the summer break from May to July 2022. Through this Fellowship, we select students to work on different projects under FOSSEE and provide them with an opportunity to contribute to the open source community. The fellows can opt to work full-time (8 hours per day for minimum of 6 weeks) or part-time (6 hours per day for minimum of 8 weeks) based on their availability and academic commitments. The fellowship continued to be conducted remotely this year as well. Many students from different institutes across India participated remotely and contributed. At the end of the fellowship all students submitted a detailed report. This report was published on the FOSSEE website under open source and the fellows were awarded with a eCertificate. The link where his/her work is been published can be used by the fellows for any future employment, internship or higher studies. The statistics for this year is as follows:

Number of students who registered: 5561

Number of selected fellows: 42

The FOSSEE project is encouraging the learning and application of OpenFOAM in the field of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for engineering students, specially, for the Mechanical, Chemical, Aerospace and Metallurgical engineering streams. The CFD team under FOSSEE conducts training for students, faculty members and corporates throughout the year. After the pandemic, mode of these training workshops are online. During April-May 2022 the team arranged a ‘Meet & Greet Session’, where students were encouraged to refer the faculty members with whom the CFD team of FOSSEE can interact. The team also found about the various software used for different courses in these colleges and the problems that the students/ faculty might be facing while using these software.  The CFD team also made them aware of an Open Source Software alternative for CFD, i.e., OpenFOAM. In that session the CFD team put forward the advantages of using OpenFOAM over other software and how could they learn OpenFOAM with the help of FOSSEE. This was an online event. We had 76 participants for this event.

The registration for the FOSSEE Semester-long Internship 2022 commenced in January 2022. To get shortlisted for the internship, each student had to select a project and choose a screening task. Then the student had  to complete at least one of the screening tasks. The selection was  purely based on the evaluation criteria of each screening task. The students who got selected worked with FOSSEE for one whole semester. After the successful completion of the screening task the internship started in March 2022. The internship was conducted remotely. The interns opted to work full-time (8 hours per day) or part-time (6 hours per day) based on their availability and academic commitments for one semester. FOSSEE also collected a NOC from the students signed by the HOD/ Principal of the college which said that the college had no objection for the intern to participate in the internship for a semester. In this internship, many students from different institutes across India participated remotely and contributed to various projects under FOSSEE. The internship concluded in the month of May 2022. This improved their skills as well as their employment potential as they spent approximately 4 months on one particular project. At the end of the internship each student was awarded an e-certificate and link where his/her work is been published. These student could use this link for their future opportunities.

We got registrations from students all over India and around 8000 students registered. Around 42 students completed the screening task successfully and out of which we selected 16 students for internship.

FOSSEE (https://fossee.in), IIT Bombay, conducted a two week, high intensity, eSim Circuit design and simulation Marathon (https://hackathon.fossee.in/esim/) using Skywater 130nm technology. eSim (https://esim.fossee.in/) is an open source mixed signal simulation platform created by FOSSEE. Skywater is also an open source technology. This Marathon was executed jointly with VLSI System Design (VSD) Corp. Pvt. Ltd., a company established by an alum who has an M.Tech degree from the EE Dept., IIT Bombay. Close to 3,000 students from all over India had participated in this Marathon and 138 students from 73 colleges completed it with brilliant circuit design ideas. These results of the Marathon were announced at 8:30pm IST on Wednesday, 21 July 2021. The Chief Guest for this event was Mr. Sameer Halepete, VP, VLSI, NVIDA. The completed circuits under this marathon can be found here: https://esim.fossee.in/hackathon/completed-circuits.

More details about the event can be found here: https://hackathon.fossee.in/esim