FOSS Club KIET

We're recruiting 1st & 2nd year students. If you're interested in technology, open source, or simply enjoy learning, experimenting, and building things, we'd love to hear from you.

YOU LIKE SOMETHING? Share it with us. Maybe you've been learning something, building something, or just going down a rabbit hole because you wanted to know how it works. Bring it along. We love learning from each other, and we love sharing what we know.

Welcome to all new and returning members of FOSS Club KIET! Our primary weekly meeting takes place every Tuesday at 5:00 PM in Room H808 or H108 (confirm on Discord once temporarily). During these sessions, members share lightning talks on recent open source discoveries, review pull requests, and plan upcoming project sprints.

Additionally, our space is open daily right after your classes conclude. Drop in anytime to work, discuss or ideate.

FOSS Club KIET is proud to announce our upcoming Linux Basics & Open-Source History Bootcamp on September 9, 2026 (17:00 - 20:30) in Room H106, KIET. A beginner-friendly session where you won't just learn Linux, you'll play it. Explore an abandoned system in our browser adventure, uncover hidden files, unlock gates, and learn how to start contributing to open source this semester.

Modules will cover Linux Fundamentals (core CLI navigation, filesystem hierarchy, and essential utilities), Open-Source History, and our browser-based Linux quest puzzle adventure. Absolute beginners welcome - bring a laptop with a modern web browser and a Google account. Nothing to install.

Our monthly reading circle gathers to dissect seminal research papers across computer science. Our next session is scheduled for Thursday, October 1, 2026, starting at 5:15 PM onwards in the AI Skills Lab.

We will be discussing two landmark systems papers:

1. "Architecture of a Database System" by Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, and James Hamilton (2007) — an architectural exploration of modern relational database management systems, covering storage engines, query processors, and transaction managers.

2. "Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store" by Giuseppe DeCandia et al. (2007) — the seminal distributed systems paper introducing consistent hashing, vector clocks, sloppy quorums, and anti-entropy for high-availability distributed storage.

All students and enthusiasts interested in databases, distributed systems, and open technical discussions are welcome to attend. Further discussion and paper links are available on our Discord server in the #plans-and-projects channel.