Scilab/C2/Why-Scilab/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Why Scilab.
00:06	In this tutorial you will come to know some of the capabilities of the Scilab package and benefits of shifting to Scilab.
00:16	Scilab is free and open source, user friendly numerical and computational package
00:23	Used in various streams of Engineering and Science.
00:28	It is available for various operating systems (OS) namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X
00:35	Scilab is to be pronounced with “Sci” as in Scientific and “Lab” as in Laboratory
00:43	Because Scilab is a free and open source software , users can:
00:48	See and modify the source code.
00:51	Redistribute and improve the source code.
00:55	Use the software for any purpose.
00:59	This is obvious advantage for Private Industries, Entrepreneurs, Defence Establishments,
01:05	Research Organisations, Academic Institutions and the Individual User.
01:12	As an institution, piracy of commercial packages is avoided fully by adopting FOSS tools.
01:20	Skills learnt using Scilab at academic level are useful later in the industry as usage is free of cost.
01:29	Scilab together with various toolboxes, which are also free, can perform operations like
01:36	Matrix operations
01:38	Control Systems
01:40	Image and Video Processing
01:43	Real-time Control of Hardware using (Serial Toolbox)
01:48	Interfacing Data Acquisition Systems/Cards using (HART Toolbox)
01:54	Simulation with the help of (Xcos-Block Diagram Simulator)
01:59	Plotting
02:01	Hardware In Loop i.e. (HIL) Simulation
02:06	Hardware-In--Loop differs from the pure real-time simulation by the addition of a real component in the loop.
02:14	Scilab in combination with 'Single Board Heater System device' is used as a HIL setup for performing control system experiments.
02:26	Syntax is very easy for Scilab.
02:29	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++.
02:42	Scilab like many well known proprietary packages uses “State-of-art” libraries i.e LAPACK for numerical computations.
02:52	There is a very large user community that uses and supports Scilab by contributing a great deal in the form of
03:00	Mailing lists,
03:02	Usenet groups i.e (Internet Discussion forums), and websites.
03:07	For more information about scilab, its toolboxes and mailing lists visit; scilab.org or scilab.in website
03:18	Some organisations that are using Scilab very successfully are
03:23	CNES which is (French Space Satellite Agency),
03:28	EQUALIS
03:31	Techpassiontech and
03:33	IIT Bombay for research and academic purposes
03:37	Some of the activities for promoting Scilab through NMEICT projects at IIT Bombay are
03:45	Lab Migration that is ( Shifting all computational laboratories to Scilab)
03:51	Virtual Labs that is ( Remote Access to the Single Board Heater System: )
03:56	In addition, the FOSSEE Project funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt of India, currently focuses on Python and Scilab.
04:07	We have several spoken tutorial on Scilab at this time.
04:12	Scilab Effort in India is co-ordinated through this website scilab.in
04:18	There are some interesting projects one of them is the Textbook Companion project, that codes worked out examples of standard textbooks using Scilab
04:28	The link project allows users to link known Scilab documents and rank them
04:34	We also help organize Scilab Workshops
04:38	We have two mailing lists one for announce and another for discuss.
04:43	We invite your participation in all our activities
04:47	Let us get back to spoken tutorials
04:50	The spoken part will be available in various Indian Languages as well.
04:56	These are available at spoken-tutorial.org website
05:01	These tutorials form a part of Level 0 training in Scilab.
05:06	These tutorials are available absolutely free of cost.
05:10	We wish to cover many FOSS systems through this route.
05:14	We welcome your feedback on these.
05:17	We also welcome your participation
05:19	On writing the outline for the software.
05:22	To write the original scripts.
05:24	To record the spoken tutorial.
05:27	To translate the script into various Indian Languages.
05:31	To dub the audio in Indian Languages using the script.
05:35	To review and give your feedback on all of the above.
05:39	We welcome you to conduct workshops using these spoken tutorials.
05:44	We also invite you to conduct efficacy studies on Spoken tutorials.
05:49	We are also looking for experts who can give technology support for audio, video, automatic translation, etc.
05:57	We have funding for all these activities
06:00	This spoken tutorial has been created by the Free and Open Source Software in Science and Engineering Education(FOSSEE).
06:08	More information on the FOSSEE project could be obtained from fossee.in or scilab.in website
06:16	Supported by the National Mission on Eduction through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
06:22	More information, visit: http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro
06:31	This is Anuradha Amrutkar from IIT Bombay signing off.
06:34	Thank you for joining us, Good Bye

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