Scilab Toolbox hackathon

Submitted by usha on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 11:39

FOSSEE, IIT Bombay (https://fossee.in), conducted a Scilab Toolbox Hackathon in May-June 2020, just after the onset of the pandemic. The FOSSEE team has been actively promoting Scilab as an alternative to the extremely popular, but also very expensive (especially to the industry), software, Matlab. The objective of this hackathon was to make available useful open source software as a toolbox within Scilab. The reason to initiate this activity was to increase the number of toolboxes available in Scilab. More than 700 students and professionals from different parts of India expressed interest to participate in the Scilab Toolbox Hackathon. Proposals from about 150 teams were considered to be suitable for toolbox development. A total of 42 teams completed the work in the allotted time of 2-3 weeks. Out of these, nine teams got selected: Five of them are classified as Champions and four received consolation prizes. 

The event details can be found here: https://scilab.in/hackathon. 

Start date of the event: 
Sunday, May 24, 2020 to Sunday, August 15, 2021
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