The FOSS Club

Delhi Technical Campus (Est. Nov 2023)

Faculty Coordinator: – Ms. Eirtty Telang

Introduction

The FOSS Club is a student community-based group at the Delhi Technical Campus for enthusiasts focused on contributing to Free and Open Source Software and mentoring students to achieve excellence in various fields of Computer Science.

FOSS, or Free and Open Source Software, is software that gives users the freedom to share, study, and modify it. This freedom allows for security, flexibility, and transparency.

  • Security:FOSS is often more secure than proprietary software, thanks to a community that can quickly identify and fix vulnerabilities.
  • Flexibility:Free software can be customized to meet specific needs.
  • Transparency:The freely available source code allows anyone to inspect and verify the software’s safety and security.

Core Pillars

The FOSS Club focuses on 3 prime topics:

  1. Open-Source Software:The FOSS Club focuses on open-source technologies and tools.
  2. Cyber Security:The FOSS Club also focuses on ethical hacking and cyber security.
  3. Decentralization:The FOSS Club will focus on self-hosted and decentralization technologies and tools.
  4. Hardware:The FOSS Club will focus on open-source hardware development, IoT devices, embedded systems, hardware security, and circuit design with PCB fabrication.

Ideology

The Ideology behind this club is inspired by FSF, GNU/Linux, and Unix Operating Systems. We believe that as a community of students, we all can learn and share our knowledge to achieve our goals altogether. Information isn’t meant to be hidden or left out, but rather to be shared and discussed so the core principles we follow in this club are:

  • Helping each other
  • Sharing knowledge
  • Learning together
  • Constructive criticism
  • Community Collaboration

Code of Conduct

  1. All participants in FOSS Club DTC are subject to the Code of Conduct. This includes FOSS Club board members, corporate sponsors, and paid employees. This also includes volunteers, maintainers, leaders, contributors, contribution reviewers, issue reporters,  members, and anyone participating in the discussion in FOSS Club DTC spaces. For in-person events, this also includes all attendees, exhibitors, vendors, speakers, panelists, organizers, staff, and volunteers.
  2. No NSFW Content Allowed
  3. Only use a formal tone in chat, don’t use overly expressive GIFs, Memes, or emojis.
  4. Don’t disrespect anyone regardless of their:

Age, body size, caste, citizenship, disability, education, ethnicity, familial status, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, immigration status, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, pregnancy, race, religion, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, sexual identity, socio-economic status, tribe, veteran status

  1. Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following someone is not allowed.
  2. Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist language or otherwise exclusionary language is completely prohibited.
  3. Influencing or encouraging inappropriate behavior is not appreciated and will lead to a strike by the moderators.
  4. Sustained disruption of online discussion, talks, or other events is punishable.

Vision

The vision of this club is to improve the coding culture on the college campus by bringing forward the open-source technologies and tools the community is adapting to. We aim to mentor and learn from our juniors and college mates.

The current goals of the club:

  • Promoting free and open-source software.
  • An Inclusive place for all people.
  • Spreading awareness about new and growing technologies.
  • Mentorship and guidance and the members.

Activities

The FOSS Club engages in the following activities

  • Bug Bounty: A program where individuals find and fix exploits. For example, Apple recently paid 20 Million Dollars via its bounty program.
  • Capture the Flag (CTF): An exercise in which flags are secretly hidden in purposefully vulnerable programs or websites.
  • Self Hosting: The practice of running and maintaining a website using a private web server. E.g., Wikipedia Mastodon.
  • FOSS Events: Participation in off-site FOSS events on behalf of the college.
  • FOSSathons: A mega coding marathon every year, where students can develop free and open-source software projects aligning with our core pillars.

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Core Team

  • President – Vaibhav Pratap Singh
  • Vice President–Suryansh Sharma
  • Secretary– Sachin Singh Adhikari, Ashwany Kumar Sharma
  • Event Co-ordinator– Riyansh Varshney, Shreshth Gupta, Harshvardhan, Diksha Chauhan
  • PR & Outreach–Jayesh Bisht, Satyam Mishra, Nishchal Anurag, Diti Vasisht
  • Social Media & Graphics Designer–Tiya Jain, Vanya Raman, Srijan Ranjan, Lovish Kukreja,  Arull S Bharadwaj
  • Treasurer– Gautam Kumar

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