Your safe home in a world of walled gardens.
mukto.net is a community of people in Bangladesh who help each other learn and make things with free software. Members teach classes, mentor newcomers, run meetups and keep a small shared server going, all as volunteers.
- Gatherআড্ডা
Monthly meetups and install-fests, in Dhaka and other cities.
- Learnশেখা
Free classes, and a mentor if you are just starting out.
- Buildগড়া
Help with your project, and people to build things with.
- Hostঘর
A server and a few tools the members look after together.
Coming up
Shell Saturday #3: pipes and your first script
Pipes, redirection, grep, and a first shell script that backs up your web page.
47/60 going
First PR night: Hacktoberfest close-out
Last day of Hacktoberfest. Find a good first issue, open a pull request before 22:00.
38/40 going
Bangla localisation sprint: GNOME
Translate and review GNOME interface strings together, with reviewers on hand.
17/30 going
On the server right now
$ uptime
up 79 days, 50 users, 16 cities, load average: 0.31, 0.27, 0.22
$ ls -t /home | head -6
labibkopotakkhoorpadiptoraihan_kbogura_doi
$ cat ~events/next
Sat 17 Oct Shell Saturday #3: pipes and your first script[47/60 going]
$ wc -l ~events/attendance
380 people at 6 events since June
$
50 people live here
Read their .plan filesMade on mukto.net
All 25 projectsgit.mukto.net/shutki_daemon/mukto-infra
Ansible for the whole server: accounts, nginx, Forgejo, IRC, backups. If it runs on mukto.net, it is in here.
YAML
git.mukto.net/labiba/bn-man
Bangla translations of the 40 man pages beginners open first. 23 done.
roff
git.mukto.net/prottoy/shell-saturday
Handouts and exercises for every Shell Saturday, in Bangla and English.
Markdown
git.mukto.net/tasnim/dhaka-rent
Asking rents for 3,100 Dhaka flats, collected by hand from listings and to-let signs.
CSV
git.mukto.net/anika/khulna-aqi
Hourly air quality readings for Khulna, scraped and charted on a ~user page.
Python
git.mukto.net/loadshedding/outage-log
Logs power cuts from your IPS or UPS and plots them by neighbourhood.
Shell
Who runs it
Meet the admins
Want to join?
Put your name down and we'll be in touch when sign-ups open. You don't need an account to come to an event.