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IT Unit

Meme from IT Crowd: Text: Hello Unit IT, Did you try turning it on and of again? Im Hintergrund sitzt ein Mann in einem chaotisch gestalteten Büro lässig und telefoniert mit einem Kabel-gebundenen Telefon

We are doing IT, this internet-thing people are talking on and sins and legacy connected to them.

Contact

rf.technik@stura.tu-dresden.de

Members

Unit lead: vacant

  • Malte J.
  • Gregor D.
  • Marco L.

Tasks

The IT Unit is responsible for providing and maintaining the StuRa’s IT infrastructure. It serves as the point of contact for all issues related to electronic devices encountered by active members and staff.

Its responsibilities include, in particular:

  • Access rights management to ensure that active members have access to the StuRa’s IT systems
  • Software management (procurement, licensing, license administration, maintenance)
  • Procurement and maintenance of work devices
  • Data security for student body work data (backups)
  • Creation and maintenance of documentation for the IT structure
  • Monitoring compliance with computer usage guidelines
  • Maintenance of the StuRa’s various ZIH accounts

This entails, in particular, maintaining contact with the following institutions and individuals:

  • Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH)
  • IT Coordination Staff
  • Computer Emergency Response Team at TU Dresden (TUD-CERT)
  • Advisory Board of the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Science (CIDS)

Service

Following IT services are accessible for a larger user group.

Trainings

To school StuRa members concerning IT knowledge and related organizations, we provide or buy trainings.

Following events and trainings were (co-)organized by us:

For FSR and student groups

For faculty wide student councils and student groups we can provide some advanced services on demand:

  • Group TU Mailbox
  • Samba folder
  • After coordination with ZIH: virtual machine for own services

Projects

New website

After almost eight years, we managed to launch a new website!

Further information, licenses and source code of the projects are on the project page.

Special thanks go to Jannik Menzel, the Chair System Engineering, ZIH, the StuRa editors and the other helping members.

Student groups and projects who doesn’t have an own website, can write us to get a page on our new website.

Rental laptops

We are currently collecting older computers. We plan to get them up and running again and lend them to students who don’t currently have a working computer.

If you have a computer you’d like to donate, or if you urgently need a computer, please contact us.