#FOSSHack2021 | Panel Discussion on FOSS & Education | FOSS United
Channel: FOSS United
Date: 13/11/2021

About Panel Discussion on FOSS & Education: In this panel discussion, we plan to discuss Free and Open Source Software in education, covering use and creation of FOSS in academic institutions, current exposure to FOSS among students etc.

Panellists

   1. Prof. Pankaj Jalote, IIIT-Delhi - Pankaj teaches an innovative software engineering course and part of the course work for students is to contribute to existing FOSS projects.

   2. Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, IIT Mumbai - Kannan is a professor of Chemical Engineering at IIT Mumbai. He is actively involved in creating https://spoken-tutorial.org/, a project of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, launched by MHRD, Govt of India.

   3. Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran, IIT Mumbai - Prabhu is a professor of aerospace engineering, creator   of Mayavi, a library for 3D scientific data visualization and plotting in Python and a fellow of Python Software Foundation.

    4. G S Madhusudan, CEO/Co-Founder at InCore Semiconductors - Madhu is CEO/Co-Founder at InCore Semiconductors, India's first Processor IP company. He is part of the team that created the Shakti, Open Source processor based on RISC-V.

Hosted by Anand Chitipothu, Anand works at FOSS United Foundation. Anand has been crafting beautiful software since two decades. He has co-authored web.py, a micro web framework in Python, built Open Library at the Internet Archive, created a machine learning platform at Rorodata, trained hundreds of engineers through his deep-dive courses at Pipal Academy. 


About FOSS Hack 2021

FOSS Hack 2021 is the second edition of FOSS Hack, an online hackathon to promote Free and Open Source Software by bringing together students and professionals to build or extend FOSS projects.
13th & 14th Nov 2021 – Win up to ₹10L in cash 
https://fossunited.org/fosshack/2021

About FOSS United Foundation

FOSS United is a non-profit foundation that aims at promoting and strengthening the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India. 
https://fossunited.org