About

Welcome, everyone! We are Techno FAQ Digital Media (T/A Techno FAQ), a media house and a community of technology enthusiasts who believe that technology should be reachable to all and an effort should be made to help everyone understand technology.

Aims and objectives

The Techno FAQ e-magazine aims to:

Promote and familiarize tech with the masses.
Solve tech problems with the community.
Enhance knowledge in computing and technology.
Increase awareness of our community activities.

As a whole Techno FAQ Digital Media’s aims are:

Publishing quality e-magazines like Techno FAQ, Tekh Decoded and nixFAQ.
Maintaining community activities specializing in software and hardware development, hacking, gaming, networking and blogging.
Troubleshooting people’s tech-related problems.
Promoting camaraderie in the community.
Acting as an incubator for startups and projects.
Selling digital goods and providing commercial IT services on the Marketplace; and providing premium services like Letter (privacy e-mail hosting) and ZNC (IRC bouncer) hosting.

Network

Techno FAQ Digital Media (the media house) owns and operates:

Techno FAQ – e-magazine focusing on the impact of technology on human lives, encompassing general science, engineering, computing, medicine, finance, education, business and lifestyle.
Tekh Decoded – e-magazine focusing on the consumer side of science and technology.
nixFAQ – e-magazine covering everything about Unix-family and Unix-related operating systems.
Market by Techno FAQ – e-commerce platform for digital goods and services exclusive to Techno FAQ.
Letter – simple and privacy-first email provider with support for custom domains and a novel approach.
Techno FAQ ZNC – IRC bouncer/proxy service with focus on stability, strong security and prompt customer support.

The community manages and operates:

content publishing for Techno FAQ, Tekh Decoded and nixFAQ e-magazines.
a Facebook group with over 9000+ members.
an IRC channel.

Location

Techno FAQ Digital Media comprises of members from different parts of the world. However, our primary location is:

Quarter F-03,
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,
Guwahati – 781039, Assam,
India

History

Here’s a brief history of Techno FAQ and milestones till date:

4 January 2011: Techno FAQ community is co-founded by Sunit Kumar Nandi and Farhan Hussain during school vacations as a Facebook group for tech discussions with members consisting mostly of schoolchildren.
May 2011: First management team formed under the leadership of Farhan Hussain.
June 2011: Techno FAQ’s Facebook group grows in number, having members from all walks of life.
August 2011: Pranav Suri joins management. Creates an immense spurt in the number count of the Facebook group. Discussions become more regular.
December 2011: Farhan Hussain steps down as admin. Hands over leadership to Sunit Kumar Nandi and responsibility to all the remaining admins.
July 2012: Igor Rebenko joins the team. Contributes in creating a new plan for the group.
August 2012: New management team formed. Old admins’ responsibilities are reshuffled.
September 2012: Test website launched. IRC channel created.
October 2012: Twitter feed and Google+ community are created.
16 December 2012: Website testing ends.
20 January 2013: TechnoFAQ.org is launched.
July 2013: Forum is launched.
August 2013: Began partnership with the SuperX OS project.
November 2013: Forum is revamped with a new layout.
22 December 2013: Merger with TechTronicShow to form TechnoFAQ TV.
June 2014: TechnoFAQ.org migrates to the cloud. Acquires software mirror for hosting open-source projects.
December 2016: TechnoFAQ.org moves to its own dedicated private cloud and starts hosting everything in-house.
9 January 2019: Techno FAQ community completes acquisition of Tekh Decoded and LinuxBin e-magazines.
18 April 2020: LinuxBin is rebranded and launched as nixFAQ.
4 October 2020: Letter privacy email hosting is launched in public beta.
7 October 2020: Techno FAQ community completes acquisition of QuoQueZNC, an IRC bouncer/proxy service.
7 December 2020: Registration of Techno FAQ Digital Media as a for-profit media house entity. Ownership of Techno FAQ, Tekh Decoded, nixFAQ e-magazines, Letter and QuoQueZNC is transferred to the new entity.
21 December 2020: Letter exits public beta for general availability. QuoQueZNC renamed to Techno FAQ ZNC.
12 March 2021: Launch of Market by Techno FAQ, e-commerce platform for exclusive digital goods and services.

Management team members

Employees

Current employees of Techno FAQ Digital Media are:

Sunit Kumar Nandi (Owner and Leading Officer)
Bibhuranjan Nath (Editorial Officer)
Manish Gehlot (Infrastructure Officer and Website Growth Executive)
Mahbub Hasan (Graphics and UI/UX Engineer)
Kiran Fernandes (Content Creator)

Former employees are:

Júlio Ventura (former Operations Manager)
Sumit Bhowal (former Content Creator)

Community

Current Techno FAQ community members are:

Pranav Suri (Business Strategist)
Judhajeet Das (Content Creator)
Saurav Modak (Content Creator)
Diogo Costa (Blog Author)
Chistopher Porteus (Blog Author)
Ali Dino (Blog Author)

Former community members are:

Farhan Hussain (founder)
Bhargav Sarma (former administrator)
Sachit Shivam (former administrator and editor-in-chief of blog)
Manohar Maddineni (former back-end and forum administrator, graphics designer and media division manager)
Bhushan Jayaramdas (former administrator and blog editor)
Igor Rebenko (former administrator, audiophile and product reviewer)
Ameet Borah (former administrator, Facebook group manager and gaming and PC building expert)
Aisheng Miso (former IRC channel operator and developer/coder)
Ella Xiong (former blog author)
Tushar Gulati (former administrator and IRC channel operator)
Akshat Dhabi (former administrator and graphics designer)
Ben Stovell (former administrator and gaming console expert)
Challa Pradyumna Sharma (former back-end manager and developer/coder)
Varun Priolkar (former back-end administrator)
Gaurav Dutta (former blog author)
Trishit Dutta (former administrator)
Sudhanshu Sorout (former blog author and forum moderator)
Himanshu Sorout (former blog author and forum moderator)
Rashid Feroz (former blog author, hacking and penetration testing expert)
Dipyaman Biswas (former administrator)
Kamlesh Das (former administrator)
Subhankar Das (former administrator)
Chinmay Amonkar (former moderator)
Vikram Srikumar (former author)
Sakshi Raina (former author)
Brian Sam Thomas (former contributor)
Krishnanga Kalita (former author)
Wrishiraj Kaushik (open-source software expert)