FOSS Cell

To promote the use of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) technologies and applications among students and faculties and to encore them in contributing towards the community development in FOSS, ICFOSS (International Centre for Free and Open Source Software) has initiated setting up of FOSS Cells in educational institutions, in the year 2015. The Cell’s activities are bound in participation with the members of the institutions and ICFOSS. These deeds of the Cell aim in promoting FOSS activities through a group of interested students and teachers of the institution, on a voluntary basis.



Sl. noCommittee MembersDepartment
1 Indusalini G – Hackathon Coordinator ECE
2Haseena Beegum SECE
3Vidhya SECE
4Gargy GCSE
5Anupama SathyanIT

Activities of FOSS Cell


Sl. noProgramsSpeakerPeriod
1 Smart India Hackathon Internals 6th October 2023
2 Embrace Open Source Mehruniza Nazeem,Research Associate,ICFOSS15th September 2023
3 Mastering PCB DesignVinod Kumar B G,Technical Officer,Kerala Startup Mission13th,14th July 2023
4 Community Partner of Enfoss Organized by NetX MACE17th-19th March 2023
5 Cloud ComputingGauri Suryawanshi,DDSC-Lead,Ges-Coengg15th March 2023
6 Community Partner of FOSS Hac 3.0 Organized by FOSS united4th,5th March 2023
7 Content Writing WorshopRebecca Elisabeth Falcao,Technical Content Writer,ETC Grad Program Manager,HyperEdge28th February 2023
8 Tech MasteryRenju Sahithya,Datarig Pvt Ltd11th February 2023
9 Higher Studies in EuropeDr Samada Muraleedharan,Scientist Fedaral Institute of Vaccines and Biomedicines,Germany and Govind Suresh,CEO,Consuted Education Portal3rd February 2023
10 Python WorkshopMehruniza Nazeem,Research Associate,ICFOSS2nd-4th November 2022