Events
Free, open to anyone, mostly on Saturdays. 380 people have come to 6 so far.
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
Self-hosting meetup #2
Home servers, cheap VPSes and backups that actually restore. Lightning demos welcome.
21/45 going
Install-fest, Rajshahi
Our first install-fest outside Dhaka. Students first, everyone welcome.
12/50 going
Year-end adda
Look back at the first six months and decide together what to do in 2027.
9/80 going
What runs every month
Shell Saturday
Third Saturday, monthly · Dhaka and online
A three-hour hands-on class on the shared server. Starts from zero; each month builds on the last.
First PR night
Last Friday, monthly · Online, sometimes Mohakhali
Pick a good first issue, get unstuck with a mentor, open a pull request the same night.
Bangla localisation sprint
Quarterly · Online
Translate and review the interfaces and docs of free software projects, in pairs.
Ops apprenticeship
Rolling, 3 months · On the server
Shadow the infrastructure group, take a supervised on-call shift, earn sudo.
Before
Software Freedom Day adda
31 keys signed. The power went at 6:10 and the talks carried on by phone torch.
54 came
Self-hosting meetup #1
Nine lightning demos. Notes and slides are on the forge under ctg_root/selfhost-1.
29 came
Shell Saturday #2: files, permissions, editors
Fewer people than #1, more questions. September skipped for Software Freedom Day.
76 came
Linux install-fest
64 laptops installed and 5 broken dual-boots fixed. Ubuntu on most, Fedora on 9, Debian on 4.
71 came
Shell Saturday #1: getting around
112 people at peak. The recording and handout are in Learn.
112 came
Founding adda
Agreed on the name and a few principles. Shutki_daemon offered to run a server; it went live five weeks later.
38 came
Run something with us
Got a room, a campus club or a talk? Tell us. We'll bring the server and the handouts.