ESCAPE Seminars — QR Attendance System

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100

The ESCAPE Seminars attendance system was built to automate registration and presence tracking for a seminar series at Politecnico di Torino. Attendees authenticate using their institutional PoliTO credentials through a SAML2 flow backed by a Keycloak Identity Provider, ensuring that only enrolled students can register — without storing passwords in the application.

The backend is a Django REST API connected to a PostgreSQL database. Upon successful authentication, the system generates a unique QR code for each session and user pair. Organizers can scan codes in real time via a dedicated endpoint, and an admin dashboard provides attendance summaries, CSV exports, and per-seminar statistics.

PoliTO Students — Open Resources for Students

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

PoliTO Students is a GitLab organization that collects and publishes open-source lecture notes, exercise sheets, and study guides for courses at Politecnico di Torino. All documents are written in LaTeX or Typst and built automatically on every push via GitLab CI/CD pipelines, with the resulting PDF artifacts published to GitLab Pages and made freely available to all students.

Each document repository packages its own build toolchain as a Nix derivation, ensuring that the exact same compiler versions and font sets are used both locally and in CI. Contributors can enter a ready-to-use shell with nix develop or devenv shell without installing anything system-wide, and the CI runners consume the same derivation for byte-for-byte reproducible PDFs.

Devenv on Giovanni Nicosia

ESCAPE Seminars — QR Attendance System

PoliTO Students — Open Resources for Students