# Panel Discussion on FOSS & Education

**URL:** <https://forum.fossunited.org/t/panel-discussion-on-foss-education/946>\
**Category:** FOSS Hack 2021\
**Created:** [10 November 2021 23:55 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/panel-discussion-on-foss-education/946 "2021-11-10T23:55:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [10 November 2021 23:55 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/panel-discussion-on-foss-education/946/1 "2021-11-10T23:55:21Z")

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We are planning to host a panel discussion on FOSS & Education on Nov 13 from 4-5PM.

In this panel discussion, we plan to discuss Free and Open Source Software in education, covering use and creation of FOSS in academic institutions, current exposure to FOSS among students etc.

**Panelists**

**[Prof. Pankaj Jalote, IIIT-Delhi](https://www.iiitd.edu.in/~jalote/) - Confirmed**

Pankaj teaches an innovative software engineering course and part of the course work for students is to contribute to existing FOSS projects.

**[Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, IIT Mumbai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannan_Moudgalya) - Confirmed**

Kannan is a professor of Chemical Engineering at IIT Mumbai. He is actively involved in creating [https://spoken-tutorial.org/](https://spoken-tutorial.org/), a project of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, launched by MHRD, Govt of India.

**[Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran, IIT Mumbai](https://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu/) - Confirmed**

Prabhu is a professor of aerospace engineering, creator of [Mayavi](https://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/), a library for 3D scientific data visualization and plotting in Python and a fellow of Python Software Foundation.

**[G S Madhusudan, CEO/Co-Founder at InCore Semiconductors](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsmadhusudan) - Confirmed**

Madhu is CEO/Co-Founder at [InCore Semiconductors](https://incoresemi.com/), India’s first Processor IP company. He is part of the team that created the [Shakti](https://shakti.org.in/), Open Source processor based on RISC-V.

**[Prof. Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya, BITS Pilani - Goa Campus](https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/basabdattab/Profile) – Yet to Confirm**

Basabdatta is an associate professor at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus and Prinicipal Investigator of [Brain Inspired Neural Networks (BINN) Labs](https://www.binnlabs-goa.in/).

I’m looking for your inputs on about what questions can we put forward to the panel.

Please share your inputs in this thread.