We are the student open-source community at Amal Jyothi College of Engineering. We build digital products, host workshops, dual-boot Linux, and collaborate on real-world projects.
AJCE FOSS is a student collective advocating for software freedom, peer-to-peer collaboration, and build-centric learning.
We learn from each other. No rigid syllabus or test scores—just code reviews, chat threads, and collaborative hacking sessions.
We build tools, host Linux install festivals, compile custom packages, and push directly to open global repos.
Hands-on crash courses covering everything from collaborative tools, basic command utilities to advanced systems programming, UI, and docker containers.
Overnight sprints where student teams brainstorm, write scripts, share knowledge, and some coffee, and demo real-working software.
Register and jump into our next coding sprints. Open to all students, regardless of branch or year.
Master git repositories. Learn to create branches, staging edits, resolve pull requests, and contribute upstream.
Hosted a hands-on technical workshop introducing students to the Wikimedia ecosystem, MediaWiki, and open-source contribution workflows.
Organized a 2-day hackathon where participants collaborated on Wikimedia projects, built tools, and contributed to the open-source community.
Partnering with national and state-level organizations to grow a strong open-source footprint on campus.
A non-profit foundation promoting Free & Open Source Software in India. As an active campus chapter, we build open-source tools, run local hackathons, and secure project grants.
An autonomous institution under the Government of Kerala. Our student cell coordinates government-linked open-source training programs, IoT labs, and hardware hackdays.
Meet the organizers and core volunteers driving the open-source community at Amal Jyothi.
Visual snapshots from our workshops, bootcamps, and hacknights.
Have questions or want to collaborate? Reach out to us via email or connect with us on social media.