Core Tech @Collegio San Paolo

Linux, Excel

I was the head of the IT group (called Core Tech) of my university residence of 120 people (Collegio San Paolo). There I created many projects, but one of them is special to me:

  • An accounting system to share the cost of the common printer, using:
  1. CUPS for authentication and log
  2. Awk for filtering of the log
  3. Bash and Cron for the periodic upload of the log to Google Drive
  4. Google Sheets for the accounting

This automation allowed us to scale up the system and provide a very convenient way of printing to the 120 guests of the residence. With about 100'000 pages printed per year and a much cheaper price than any print shop, this project was a real success!

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