Organisation : FOSSEE, IIT Bombay
Fellowship Name : FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2019
Applicable For : Students
Application Last Date : 31st March 2019 (Date is Extended)
Website : https://fossee.in/fellowship/2019
FOSSEE Summer Fellowship
FOSSEE, IIT Bombay invites applications for Summer Fellowship 2019 from students in all the streams across the country. FOSSEE works on promotion and development of Free/Libre and Open Source Software in education.
Related : CDS K.N. Raj Training & Fellowship Programme 2019 : www.scholarships.net.in/34520.html
Important Dates
| Registrations open | 1 February 2019 |
| Last date of Registration | 31st March 2019 |
| Last date to submit tasks | 31st March 2019 |
| Announcement of Results | 18 April 2019 |
| Commencement of Fellowship (tentative) | 14 May 2019 |
FOSSEE Fellowship Registration
Students have to register for the fellowship programme and complete the screening level tasks in any of the Software listed below
| Scilab | Python | eSim | OpenFOAM (CFD) |
| DWSIM | Osdag | R | OpenModelica |
| Xcos | Blender | Synfig | LaTeX |
| OpenPLC | Django | Drupal | QGIS |
| Koha |
How to Register?
Just follow the below steps to register fo FOSSEE Summer Fellowship 2019.
Steps :
Step 1 : Go to the following link [https://fossee.in/]
Step 2 : Next click on the “Sign Up” button and fill the following details to create an account.
** Choose your username and password
** Enter your Personal Details
** Choose Other fields
** Enter Fellowship 2019 details
** Enter the Source of Information
Step 3 : After create your account, login with your registered user name and password.
Step 4 : Then select the particular screening task and fill the remaining details to complete your application.
Note : Kindly note that a candidate can register for screening tasks under only one project.
Screening Tasks List
Following is the list of projects with the link to their respective screening tasks. Please visit the respective link to know more about the screening tasks.
| S.No | Projects | Project details |
| 1 | FOSSEE Scilab Toolboxes | Scilab: Numerical Computations |
| 2 | Python | Programming language |
| 3 | eSim | EDA: Circuit simulation |
| 4 | CFD (OpenFOAM) | Computational fluid dynamics toolbox |
| 5 | DWSIM | Chemical process simulator |
| 6 | Osdag | Steel structure design software |
| 7 | R | Statistical Analysis |
| 8 | OpenModelica | Dynamic modelling environment |
| 9 | Xcos | Graphical simulation environment for Scilab |
| 10 | Hardware (OpenPLC) | Open Hardware |
| 11 | FOSSEE Web Development | Drupal: Content management system, Django: Python web framework |
| 12 | Spoken-tutorial animations | Synfig studio: 2D animation software, Blender: 3D animation software |
| 13 | Spoken-tutorial web development | Django web development |
| 14 | Koha | Open source Integrated Library System (ILS) |
| 15 | QGIS | Open-source cross-platform, desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data |
| 16 | LaTeX | A document preparation system |
| 17 | Collabrative Communities | To be updated |
Selection Procedure
The selection procedure will be based only on the performance of the candidate in the screening level tasks. If selected for the fellowship, the candidate has to come to IIT Bombay and work under the mentorship of the FOSSEE team members.
The submitted tasks will be evaluated by the FOSSEE team and the decision will be final. The candidates selected for the fellowship will work on the development of various Open Source Software / Hardware projects.
Note :
This fellowship is available for a maximum of 8 weeks and will not be extended.
Last Date
The last date for submission of the screening tasks’ work is 31st March 2019.
Helpdesk
For queries, write to <info[at]fossee[dot]in>