We're a volunteer-run charity. There's a meetup or a workshop every month, install-fests on campus, and sessions on security, privacy, and making sense of the technology everyone uses every day. We host and share technical resources locally too, everything from software mirrors to free stickers and booklets. Join us, it's free.
Monthly meetups, workshops and special events. Free for everyone, in Dhaka and online.
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A day outdoors with no screens. Power down the daemons, step away from the backlit rectangle, and touch some actual grass with other Linux and FOSS people. 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. Covers process management, I/O redirection, and writing shell utilities that fail loudly instead of silently.
A full day of contributing, with mentors on hand. They'll help you find a first issue you can actually finish, get your head around Git branching and conventional commits, and open pull requests on real Linux and FOSS projects. Stickers, badges and booklets for everyone who turns up.
Hands-on guidance through cloning repositories, fixing good first issues, writing tests, and opening upstream pull requests. Also how to talk to maintainers, and how to keep commits small and self-contained.
Host your own services on refurbished hardware or a cheap home server, and keep your data somewhere you can see it. Covers Docker, Podman, Nextcloud, Pi-hole, and Tailscale overlays.
Here's what 6 years of monthly meetups adds up to. No sponsors, no registration fees, and every organiser a volunteer.
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're building with FOSS tools, get a code review, and pick up the habits upstream contribution needs.
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 mentors, 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.
Support pays for meeting rooms, mirror bandwidth, travel to universities around Bangladesh, and the booklets and stickers we give away. It never pays for a registration fee, because there isn't one. What you get back is the engineers and students doing the work, and a community that remembers who paid for the room.
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.
Want to contribute or start a new repository under the club? Add docs to bd-startups, write a security guide for Awesome-Cybersecurity-Bangladesh, or incubate your own tool.Explore on GitHub →
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.
