FOSS Club

The world of FOSS (Free & Open-Source Software) believes in giving “Power to People”. It gives freedom of innovation to the programmer by providing an opportunity to enhance and analyze open-source code, which enables him in developing and customizing user specific environments with ease.

Acharya Narendra Dev College firmly believes in the adoption of Free Open-Source Software (FOSS) as an instrument of inclusive digital education and breaking the shackles of restrictive li-censing policies in education. In order to keep with this goal, the college has been regularly con-ducting hands-on workshops since December 2007 to introduce Linux and FOSS to students, teach-ing & non-teaching staff.

The philosophy of Free and Open-Source Software goes a long way in building career of students and shaping their lives. A lot of our students have joined companies like IBM, ORACLE, FACE-BOOK etc. which also work on open-source projects. Our ex-students have expressed their grati-tude in being part of a college where students are provided with an environment for learning FOSS at an early stage. FOSS has a long list of advantages out of which security is ranked the topmost. Students feel that working with FOSS is always beneficial as it has a large community support through which they can gain assistance in solving any problem faced while developing code.

The FOSS Club of the Department regularly organizes hands-on workshops on Linux and FOSS for the staff and students of ANDC. The main aim of the Club is to foster the principles of Free and Open Source. Besides faculty members, these workshops also see students acting as resource persons thus, furthering the FOSS philosophy of learning and sharing. Following are the details of activities conducted under the club in last few years:

S.No. Details Place Period Sponsoring/Organizing Agency
Form To
2021-2022
1. Three Days online Workshop under FOSS Club on“Let’s Talk DevOps by Mr. Shailesh Thakur, Senior DevOps Engineer, o9 Solutions Inc. ANDC, DU 11th March 2022 13th March, 2022 DBT Star Scheme, 2021-22, ANDC
2. Five Days online Workshop under FOSS Club on“Face Recognition using Python” by Dr. Xavier Chelladurai, Director and Professor, Christ Human Resource Centre ANDC, DU 26th October 2021 30th October 2021 DBT Star Scheme, 2021-22, ANDC
3. Five Days online Workshop under FOSS Club on A First Step Towards Developing Virtual Lab Using MERN Stack” by Mr. Prabhat Chandra, Freelance Trainer/ Developer (only on Saturday and Sunday) ANDC, DU 9th October2021 24th October 2021 DBT Star Scheme, 2021-22, ANDC
4. Two Days online Workshop under FOSS Club on “HTML: A Prerequisite for MERN Stack” by Mr. Rishi Sarbobhoum, Mr. Aditya Goyal, Mr. Devesh Yadav, Mr. Sushant Sharma, Students, ANDC ANDC, DU 6th October 2021 7th October 2021 DBT Star Scheme, 2021-22, ANDC
5. Two Days online Workshop under FOSS Club on “Front End WebUI Frameworks Overview: Bootstrap” by Mr. Ashwani Bhatia, Web Designer/ Developer ANDC, DU 2nd October 2021 3rd October 2021 DBT Star Scheme, 2021-22, ANDC
6. Two Days online workshop on “Effective Presentation & Image Management for Success” on 24-25 Aug. 2021, by Mrinal Gupta Virmani, Confidence Coach & Soft skills Trainer, Image Consultant & Chartered Accountant ANDC, DU 24th August 2021 25th August 2021 DBT Star Scheme, 2021-22, ANDC
2020-2021
1. One Day workshop under FOSS Club on "Google Classroom" for first year students of BSc(ll) CS and B.Sc. (PS with CS) ANDC, DU 27th November2020 DBT Star Scheme, 2020-21, ANDC
2. Five Day online Workshop under FOSS Club on "Data Analysis and Visualisation ofCovid-19 Data using Python" for first year students of DU colleges ANDC, DU 22nd June 2021 26th June 2021 DBT Star Scheme, 2020-21, ANDC
2019-2020
1. One Day Faculty Development Programme on “Machine Learning” by Dr. Ramesh Aggarwal, Professor, JNU ANDC, DU 4th March 2020 DBT Star Scheme, 2019-20, ANDC
2 Four day Inter Disciplinary workshop on “ Linux and FOSS” for first year students of the college. ANDC, DU 16th September 2019 19th September 2019 DBT Star Scheme, 2019-20, ANDC
2018-2019
1 Two-day FDP on “Emotional Intelligence” by Prof. Anil Ohri, ICT Academy ANDC, DU 1st April 2019 2nd April 2019 DBT Star Scheme, 2018-19, ANDC
2 One day Workshop on Awareness on Digital India”Initiative in college premises ANDC, DU 18th September 2018 DBT Star Scheme, 2018-19, ANDC
3 A four-day workshop on “Linux and FOSS” for first year students in college premises. ANDC, DU 28th August 2018 4th September 2018 DBT Star Scheme, 2018-19, ANDC
2017-2018
1 A three-day workshop on “Linux and FOSS”, for first year students in college premises. ANDC, DU August 2017 ANDC
2015-2016
1 A four-day workshop on “FOSS & Linux Familiarization” for first year students in college premises. ANDC, DU August 2015 ANDC
2013-2014
1 A three day “FOSS Familiarization” workshop for the students of first year FYUP course in association with Institute of Informatics and Communication, University of Delhi, South Campus, conducted in college premises. ANDC, DU March 2014 ANDC
2 A talk on “Free Software: Defending your freedom” by Mr. Richard Stallman, Founder & President, Free Software Foundation ANDC, DU 9th January 2014. ANDC
3 A four-day workshop on “IT Tools” for Non-Teaching staff in college premises. ANDC, DU 16th December 2013 19th December 2013 ANDC
4 A three-day workshop on “Ethical Hacking” for students in college premises. ANDC, DU September2013 ANDC
5 A two-day workshop on “FOSS & Linux” for first year students in college premises. ANDC, DU August 2013 ANDC
2011-2012
1 A one-day workshop on “Foss and Linux using spoken tutorials” for students. ANDC, DU 2nd February 2012 ANDC
2 A two-day workshop on “Spoken Tutorials on Latex” by IIT Mumbai” held in college premises. ANDC, DU 13th October 2011 14th October 2011 ANDC
3 A two-day workshop on “FOSS” for students. ANDC, DU August 2011 ANDC
2010-2011
1 Two-day workshop on “Drupal and Php” for students and faculty members. March 2011 ANDC
2009-2010
1 A two-day workshop on “Application of Open-Source Software in Science Teaching & Research” in association with NRCFOSS, Anna University Chennai in college premises. ANDC, DU 14th April 2010 15th April 2010 ANDC
2 A two-day workshop on “Importance of FOSS in IT industry, career prospects, basics of kernel & its security, socket programming &Jquery”, in college premises. ANDC, DU January 2010 ANDC
2008-2009
1 A one-day workshop on “FOSS, OpenMoku and Ruby on rails” in college premises. January 2009 ANDC
2 A five day inter-college training and familiarization workshop on “Linux, Foss & Clustering”. 3rd January 2009 7th January 2009 ANDC