SREE GLUG

SREE GLUG is a GNU/Linux User's Group at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST), Hyderabad — a community of students, teachers and technical people who believe in Free Software: software that respects your freedom to run, study, share and improve it. Started in 2006 — one of the earliest GLUGs among engineering colleges in the region — and revived in 2025 with the same Free Software spirit and a new generation of contributors.

Our philosophy

Free Software is not a business model — it is a set of freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it.
• The freedom to redistribute copies.
• The freedom to distribute your modified versions.

A GLUG exists so these ideas are practised, not just preached. When we install Debian or Fedora on a friend's laptop, when we read the kernel source instead of guessing, when we publish our notes so the next person can learn faster — that is the Free Software spirit at work.

What we do

Workshops and install fests. Talks on GNU/Linux, open standards, DevOps, cybersecurity and AI. Hackathons and contributor sessions. Study groups that read real documentation. And a lot of informal evening debugging sessions.

Our collaborators

The revived SREE GLUG works with Swecha Telangana, the Free Software community of Telangana, and participates in the Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) ecosystem — the network of Free Software groups and movements across India.

Our vision

A campus where students reach for GNU/Linux first, read source code, publish what they learn, and treat software freedom as a normal part of engineering — not a niche.