The Penguins Club is a charity and non-profit community initiative running from 2020. We host community Linux mirrors, distribute free educational booklets, leaflets & stickers, and deliver valuable practical lessons and monthly workshops.
An unplugged, open-air super gathering! Step away from backlit screens, power down the daemons, and touch actual grass with fellow Linux and FOSS enthusiasts. Featuring solar-powered LoRa mesh radios, an open-air GPG key-signing party, an offline Kiwix knowledge mirror, acoustic lightning talks, frisbee, and lawn snacks.
Hands-on lab walking through terminal navigation, automation pipelines with bash, systemd services, and Linux kernel fundamentals. Master process management, I/O redirection, and building resilient shell utilities.
Celebrate the world's largest open source festival with The Penguins Club! Join a high-energy, full-day sprint where mentors help you find beginner-friendly issues, master Git branching and conventional commits, submit meaningful Pull Requests to Linux and FOSS projects, and earn exclusive stickers, badges, and booklets.
Hands-on guidance through cloning repositories, fixing good first issues, writing tests, and opening upstream pull requests. Learn how to communicate effectively with maintainers and write clean atomic commits.
Learn how to take control of personal data by hosting your own open-source services on refurbished hardware or inexpensive home servers. Discover Docker, Podman, Nextcloud, Pi-hole, and Tailscale private overlays.
The Penguins Club measures success not by vanity metrics or sponsorship fees, but by genuine community longevity, software shipped, and students empowered with free computing literacy.
Hosting community cache mirrors for Debian, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu packages to ensure fast, low-latency downloads for local students and developers across Bangladesh.
Designing, printing, and distributing physical command-line cheat sheets, Linux installation guides, and Tux stickers at meetups and universities across the country.
Curated crowdsourced database documenting tech companies in Bangladesh, providing global visibility to local innovators and student researchers.
Clubs meet monthly year-round. Campus workshops, installation fests, and upstream sprints run when a university department or partner signs on.
Paper reading, live terminal challenges, and monthly hands-on workshops — the habit this community started with in 2020.
From desktop installations (Debian, Arch, Fedora) to headless server administration, shell scripting, package management, and systemd services.
Show what you are building with FOSS tools, get code reviews, and learn the collaborative skills required for upstream contributions.
Mastering Git branching workflows, writing tests, reviewing PRs, and contributing to public repositories under copyleft and permissive licenses.
One-day hands-on bootcamps at universities. Free for students. Runs when a university club, department, or partner signs on.
We bring seasoned mentors, live bootable USB drives, printed cheat-sheets, and lab rubrics. You bring the lab room and eager students.
Teaching defensive computing, network auditing, server hardening, and self-hosted cloud alternatives.
Configuring firewalls (UFW, nftables), SSH keys, private local LLMs without telemetry, disk encryption, and verifiable security practices.
Free community infrastructure: high-speed package mirrors, printed booklets, leaflets, and Linux stickers.
Operating community package mirrors for Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu. Printing and handing out physical reference leaflets and booklets at zero cost.
Speak, host a campus stop, contribute code, or support the logistics that keep workshops and educational materials free for every student in Bangladesh.
Bring a Linux install-fest or workshop to your university. You bring the lab room and students; we bring the bootable USBs, printed booklets, stickers, and experienced mentors.
Teach the tool or workflow you wish someone had shown you. Whether you built a Rust CLI, configured a home server, or mastered Vim, our meetup stage is open to you.
Submit pull requests to bd-startups, Awesome-Cybersecurity, or uradhura. Help translate documentation, fix issues, and improve community infrastructure.
Fund high-bandwidth Linux mirror servers, provide refurbished laptops for student labs, or support printing free booklets and stickers — never a paywall.
Supporters help cover physical meetup spaces, high-bandwidth mirror servers, travel to universities across Bangladesh, and printing free booklets & stickers — never a registration fee. You get direct connection to passionate systems engineers, student builders, and a community that remembers who made the workshops possible.
All our code, guides, and learning resources are published under open copyleft licenses on GitHub. Explore, inspect, fork, and submit pull requests.
Curated open directory of technology startups in Bangladesh. Helping local tech innovators gain international visibility and collaborative peer connections.
Curated collection of cybersecurity learning labs, research initiatives, tooling guides, and defense frameworks tailored for Bangladesh.
Slide decks, talk transcripts, lecture notes, and resources presented at The Penguins Club monthly meetups covering Linux systems and tools.
High-performance Telegram bot written in Rust powering community group automations, resource delivery, and utility services.
Curated open career guidance, Linux skill rubrics, and engineering references for aspiring systems administrators and developers.
Essential internet etiquettes, digital ethics, and communication norms compiled in one place for students and tech community participants.
Whether you want to contribute documentation to bd-startups, write a security guide for Awesome-Cybersecurity-Bangladesh, or incubate your own open source tool, our community is open for collaboration.
Our community operates primarily on Telegram, where we coordinate monthly meetups, answer Linux and open-source questions, and share project updates. Everyone is welcome.
This is where our day-to-day community coordinates. Connect with students, sysadmins, software engineers, and FOSS advocates. Ask Linux troubleshooting questions, get guidance installing a distro, and receive monthly meetup alerts.
We keep daily discussions focused on Telegram while configuring additional decentralized protocols.
Our primary live community hub. Join for monthly meetup notifications, Linux troubleshooting, distro install help, and community discussions.
Federated, end-to-end encrypted chat on the open Matrix protocol. Setup in progress to bridge with our main community rooms.
Voice lounges, audio rooms, and screen-sharing channels for hands-on workshop pair programming and community streams.
Long-form async forum for distro documentation, in-depth tutorials, system architecture RFCs, and permanent knowledge archiving.
If you are an academic institution, community space, volunteer speaker, or open-source foundation interested in collaborating with The Penguins Club, send us an email or visit our physical lab.
Founded in 2020, The Penguins Club operates on the conviction that computing knowledge should never be hoarded behind paywalls or proprietary lock-ins. By teaching GNU/Linux and open tools, we help individuals take ownership of their technology.
Personal workstations and servers should be under the full control of their owners — free from involuntary data extraction, mandatory telemetry, and artificial lock-ins.
GNU/Linux breathes decades of useful life into older computers, actively combating planned obsolescence and reducing electronic waste in universities and homes.
Open source software enables independent peer audits and threat modeling. Security must be rooted in transparent architectural design, never secrecy.
Foundational software technologies — from the Internet to the Linux kernel — were built as shared public commons. We defend and expand that heritage.
As an open charity initiative, we host community Linux mirrors, publish guides, distribute free booklets & leaflets, and deliver practical lessons.
To run the program as you wish, for any purpose, on any machine — without artificial licensing barriers or corporate surveillance.
To inspect how the software executes and modify it to suit your needs. Transparent source code is fundamental to computer science education.
To share copies with peers, students, and institutions so everyone has access to modern software tools.
To release modifications to the public, allowing the global community to learn and benefit collectively.
100% volunteer-run charity initiative. We host public Linux mirrors, distribute free educational booklets & stickers, and provide hands-on workshops that remain permanently free and open to everyone.