As a student of Thiagarajar College of Engineering, I feel proud to share one of the faces of TCE. This is the place where I learnt a lot from both my friends as well as the administration. I really feel proud to be exposed to the FOSS world, as I wont utilize any other OSes other than those come as Linux flavours.
Though the students in TCE were not aware of what FOSS is (which was before 5 years), there were a lot of contributions as well as developments in TCE towards FOSS. All the machines in the Centralized Computer Center in TCE has dual boot with Debian installed in them.
There is GNU/Linux Users Group Of TCE (glugot) where there are numerous active members as well as the students in TCE are conducting monthly meetings as well as are creating awareness among others. As a note of celebration of Software Freedom Day, which is celebrated all over the world, TCE celebrates its kind as FStival every year.
Also, seminars are being conducted in TCE on behalf of the past two years which was helpful to the students of TCE as well as the other participants from the outside. The alumni’s contribution in these events were awesome.
Also TCE has its posses ERP named TCENet, which automates all of the works related with the students like Attendance maintenance, Student Profile, Online Assignment, etc. totally of 24 modules. Then it has automated the college admission process by developing the application TAA as a part of TCENet. All these were developed by the students of TCE.
TCE also gave the products like Tuxedo, ijammer, Getez as well as contributed to FOSS world through their students. All the servers in TCE are Linux servers as well as they are all maintained by the students itself.
TCE has also won awards on behalf of them… Got the Best Innovative IT Implementation award of the Year 2007 from PCQuest. Also got the FOSS India awards on behalf of TCENet as well as GetEz.
“Innovation needs Freedom” as well as TCE is in its right path I suppose…