ICFOSS FOSS CELL

A Gateway to FOSS

To promote the use of FOSS technologies and applications among students and faculties and to encource them in contributing towards the community development in FOSS, ICFOSS has initiated setting up of FOSS Cells in educational institutions, in the year 2015. The Cell’s activities are bound in participation with the members of the institutions and ICFOSS. These deeds of the Cell aims in promoting FOSS activities through a group of interested students and teachers of the institution, on a voluntary basis.

• VISION

  The vision of the FOSS Cell is to encourage and promote the use of Free and Open Source Software and related areas such as Open IoT / Hardware, Assistive Technology, Language Computing, Open Drone and GIS etc., amongst the students and teachers of the institution to make it utilize in all possible ways.

• MISSION

  Each FOSS Cell shall accomplish by associating with ICFOSS and its programmes, as well as with other FOSS community, industry and research organizations, and taking up programmes including training & capacity building, student projects, lectures & seminars, conferences and exhibitions, by participating at the institutional level as well as inter-institutional, state, national and international levels.