Scilab/C2/Why-Scilab/English

Title of script: Why Scilab

Author: Anuradha Amrutkar

Keywords: Why Scilab

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Why Scilab.
Slide	In this tutorial you will come to know some of the capabilities of the Scilab package and benefits of shifting to Scilab.
Slide	Scilab is free and open source, user friendly numerical and computational package used in various streams of Engineering and Science.
Slide	It is available for various operating systems (OS) namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X
Slide	Scilab is to be pronounced with “Sci” as in Scientific and “Lab” as in Laboratory
Slide	Because Scilab is a free and open source software(FOSS), users can: 1) See and modify the source code. 2) Redistribute and improve the source code. 3) Use the software for any purpose.
Slide	This is an obvious advantage for Private Industries, Entrepreneurs, Defence Establishments, Research Organisations, Academic Institutions and the Individual User.
Slide	As an institution, piracy of commercial packages is avoided fully by adopting FOSS tools.
Slide	Skills learnt using Scilab at academic level are useful later in the industry as usage is free of cost.
Slide	Scilab together with various toolboxes, which are also free, can perform operations like Matrix operations Control Systems Image and Video Processing (SIVP) Real-time Control of Hardware using(Serial Toolbox) Interfacing Data Acquisition Systems/Cards using (HART Toolbox) Simulation with the help of (Xcos-Block Diagram Simulator) Plotting
Slide	Hardware In Loop (HIL) Simulation Hardware-In--Loop differs from pure real-time simulation by the addition of a real component in the loop. Scilab in combination with 'Single Board Heater System device' is used as a HIL setup for performing control system experiments.
Slide	Syntax is very easy for Scilab.
Slide	Many numerical problems can be expressed in a reduced number of code lines, as compared to similar solutions using traditional languages, such as Fortran, C, or C++.
Slide	Scilab like many well known proprietary packages uses “State-of-art” librarie viz. LAPACK for numerical computations.
Slide	There is a very large user community that uses and supports Scilab by contributing a great deal in the form of mailing lists, Usenet groups i.e (Internet Discussion forums), and websites.
Slide	For more information about scilab, its toolboxes and mailing lists visit : www.scilab.org website, www.scilab.in
Slide	Some organisations that are using Scilab very successfully are
Slide	CNES which is (French Space Satellite Agency), below is the given link (http://www.scilab.org/news/events/20090706/Use-of-SciLab-for-space-mission-analysis)
Slide	EQUALIS ( http://www.equalis.com)
Slide	Techpassiontech ( http://www.techpassiontech.com) and
Slide	IIT Bombay (Research/Academic purposes.).
Slide	Some of the activities for promoting Scilab through NMEICT projects at IIT Bombay are
Slide	Lab Migration ( Shifting all computational laboratories to Scilab)
Slide	Virtual Labs ( Remote Access to the Single Board Heater System: www.co-learn.in/web_sbhs )
Slide	In addition, the FOSSEE Project funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt of India, currently focuses on Python and Scilab.
Slide	We have several spoken tutorial on Scilab at this time.
Slide	Scilab Effort in India is co-ordinated through this website.https://scilab.in
Slide	There are some interesting projects one of them is the Textbook Companion project, that codes worked out examples of standard textbooks using Scilab
Slide	The link project allows users to link known Scilab documents and to rank them
Slide	We also help organize Scilab Workshops
Slide	We have two mailing lists one for announce and another one for discuss.
Slide	We invite your participation in all our activities
Slide	Let us get back to spoken tutorials
Slide	The spoken part will be available in various Indian Languages as well.
Slide	These are available at spoken-tutorial.org website
Slide	These tutorials form a part of Level 0 training in Scilab.
Slide	These tutorials are available absolutely free of cost.
Slide	We wish to cover many FOSS systems through this route.
Slide	We welcome your feedback on these.
Slide	We also welcome your participation
Slide	On writing the outline for the software.
Slide	To write the original scripts.
Slide	To record the spoken tutorial.
Slide	To translate the script into various Indian Languages.
Slide	To dub the audio in Indian Languages using the script.
Slide	To review and give your feedback on all of the above.
Slide	We welcome you to conduct workshops using these spoken tutorials.
Slide	We also invite you to conduct efficacy studies on Spoken tutorials.
Slide	We are also looking for experts who can give technology support for audio, video, automatic translation, etc.
Slide	We have funding for all these activities
Slide	This spoken tutorial has been created by the Free and Open Source Software in Science and Engineering Education(FOSSEE).
Slide	More information on the FOSSEE project could beobtained from http://fossee.in or http://scilab.in
Slide	Supported by the National Mission on Eduction through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
Slide	For more information, visit: http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro
Slide	This is Anuradha Amrutkar from IIT Bombay signing off.
Slide	Thank you for joining us, Good Bye

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