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Google Summer of Code 2012

Selected projects for 2012 edition Easy and Interactive Plot (Caio Lucas dos Santos Souza) Make an Interactive graphics for Scilab, where users can edit by simple click and retrieve data from point, curve, surface and modify the position of an entity by click and drag etc. Mentor: Sylvestre Ledru Various improvements for the Scilab graphic features (Gustavo Libotte) The main objective is to improve various aspects of the Scilab graphics. For example, the first step would be to improve and stabilizes the datatip features of Scilab graphic. Mentor: Bruno Jofret Improved graphic controls

Scilab for High Schools

A new edition of the leaflet of corrected exercises in statistics and probability for French classes (2de, 1re and Tle) using Scilab is available for download This leaflet is provided to help French mathematics teachers using Scilab in statistics and probabilities for the application of French 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 high school programs.  It is only available in French. stats_proba_042012.pdf 1.25 MB

Scilab in Linux Pratique

An article on Scilab is available in #70 of the French Magazine Linux Pratique Entitled "Scilab : réalisez des programmes interactifs avec interface graphique" - Scilab: make interactive programs with GUI, the article on page 25 of the magazine explains how to help the user to create a GUI with Scilab. The author Yann Morère highlights the functionalities provided by GUI Builder module (available under Windows, Linux and Mac). To view the magazine, visit the Linux Pratique website

Google Summer of Code 2012

Scilab has been chosen by Google for the 4th consecutive year as mentoring organization The Google Summer of Code allows students from all over the world to work on open source software development in granting them a stipend. If you are a student interested in participating to GSOC to develop Scilab, do not hesitate to contact us and submit your application. Ideas of development of Scilab are available on Scilab Wiki. Consult also "how to apply" Students applications are opened from March, 26 until April, 6. Other useful links Google Summer of Code website GSOC program timeline Our involv

French Engineering Sciences Olympiads

Scilab supports the 2012 French Engineering Sciences Olympiads National competition, the French Engineering Sciences Olympiads are open to high school classes (Première and terminale French levels in S and STI2D sections) from general education and technology high schools. Scilab is proud to support the Engineering Sciences Olympiads and to reaffirm its commitment to the world of education. Scilab has been involved for many years to provide mathematics teachers with free software and educational resources and now also provides teachers of engineering sciences and STI2D with: Scilab, free

STI2D Reform

The Scilab Consortium and teachers have been jointly working to develop and make appropriate tools and resources available With STI2D reform and for teaching engineering sciences in preparatory classes for the grandes écoles, the Scilab Consortium provides teachers with free open source tools: Scilab, Xcos and dedicated modules ; CPGE, Coselica and NIDAQ (read more). STI2D and preparatory classes for the grandes écoles teachers (Démosciences team) has published a dedicated website on which you can find tutorials, exercises, courses material on Scilab and Xcos (Démosciences website).  

SGI Breakfast

February 14, 2012  Wild Cruncher UV, accelerate your Scilab simulations Novell France – Tour Franklin – La Défense, France Program 08:30 A.M - Welcome coffee 09:00 A.M - Reconciling optimization applications with hardware architectures evolution M. Pierre Fiorini: CEO, HPC Project 09:20 A.M - Wild Cruncher: performance for engineers M. Vincent Laporte: Products Director, HPC Project M. Claude Gomez: CEO, Scilab Enterprises 09:50 A.M - New evolutions of GPU technologies Jean Christophe Baratault – Responsable France NVidia 10:15 A.M - The importance of shared memory clusters. SGI® UV in

NIDays 2012

February 7, 2012 CNIT La Défense The Scilab Consortium participates to the NIDays, the annual meeting for engineers, scientists and teachers organized by National Instruments. It is in partnership that the Scilab Consortium and National Instruments are jointly developing a gateway between their two flagship products Scilab and LabVIEW. Come and meet us for Scilab to LabVIEW Gateway demonstrations and to discover the brand new NIDAQ module which allows to connect Scilab to NI Instrumentation devices. Free registration to NIDays More about the LabVIEW to Scilab Gateway

Scilab in Elektor

An article on Xcos is available in #403 of French Edition of Elektor Magazine On page 48 of January 2012 issue, you will discover a complete article entitled “Xcos : modeleur/simulateur de systèmes dynamiques hybrides” (Xcos, hybrid dynamic systems modeler and simulator). Throughout this article, examples will guide the reader to discover Xcos and use it. This second article complete the one published in December issue entitled “Scilab, le choix de l’open source pour le calcul numérique” (Scilab, open source choice for numerical computation).

Preview of Scilab 5.4.0

Scilab 5.4.0-alpha 1 is a test version provided to the community. This version includes Scilab Desktop, a file browser component, XML file reading and writing functionalities, some major ergonomics developments of the variable editor and many bug fixes. Test it… This version is provided "as is" and may or may not be suitable for production use. If you find a bug, please report it to Scilab bug tracking system.