FOSS Promotion through FOSSEE & Spoken Tutorials
summary
FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorials train 70 lakh students and 2 lakh teachers using short dubbed video lessons available offline in 22 languages, and host tool-specific resources for Scilab, Python, eSim, OpenFOAM, OpenModelica, R, Blender, Synfig Studio and more. A cloud portal cloud.scilab.in serves ~100,000 textbook examples coded from 634 textbooks by ~1,000 student contributors; 500 student-built eSim circuits emerged from a Google hackathon, and the team claims Scilab often outperforms MATLAB for textbook-driven labs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00FOSSEE & Spoken Tutorials intro
- 1:10How Spoken Tutorials work
- 3:45Open-source pedagogy
- 4:54FOSS education goals
- 5:36FOSS tools promoted
- 6:40Textbook companions & student work
- 7:50Scilab companion demo
- 10:24Lab migration projects
- 11:49Hackathons & contributions
- 12:10Funding & closing
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