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SCILAB TOOLBOX HACKATHON

A Global challenge for bright minds ….

HACKATHON PROGRESS:

In order to track the hackathon progress and to provide
timely guidance, the FOSSEE team expected inter-
mittent submissions from the participants. There
was a five stage submission phase.

MILESTONE 1:
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DATE: 16 June 2020
Identification of the external software API, compil-
ing the source code into libraries (if applica-
ble), calling a few functions of the proposed software/
library from either C/C++ or any other pro-
Scilab Toolbox Hackathon is an online, nonstop gramming language involved in the interfacing pro-
cess.
"Scilab Toolbox Development" based on already
available and an established open source software, MILESTONE 2:
Th
a competition initiated by the FOSSEE, IIT Bom- DATE: 19 June 2020
bay. It aims at inspiring minds across the globe to Identification of the external software API, compiling
build outstanding toolboxes for Scilab. the source code into libraries (if applicable), calling
a few functions of the proposed software/library from
either C/C++ or any other programming lan-
Total no of teams Applied- 24
guage involved in the interfacing process.
Selected Teams- 13 MILESTONE 3:

DATE: 22 JUNE 2020

Writing Scilab gateway functions to call all of the
identified and compiled (if applicable) external librar-
ies, from Scilab

MILESTONE 4:

DATE: 24 June 2020

Writing help document in Scilab and example code to
demonstrate how to use the toolbox.

MILESTONE 5:

DATE: 25 June 2020

Testing the toolbox on fresh OS installation on a virtu-
al box, writing READMEs and preparing the toolbox
for submission

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