About

Welcome, everyone! Techno FAQ is a community of technology enthusiasts who believe that technology should be available to all and an effort should be made to help everyone understand it.

Aims and objectives

This site/blog aims to:

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

As a whole the Techno FAQ’s aims are:

1. Creating a clan specializing in software and hardware development, hacking, gaming, networking and blogging
2. Troubleshooting tech-related problems of people
3. Promoting camaraderie in the community
4. Acting as an incubator for startups and projects

Network

Techno FAQ has 9000+ members in its Facebook group.

The Techno FAQ community has:

• a Facebook page,
• this blog,
• a forum,
• an IRC channel (web client; IRC client)
• a Google+ community,
• Twitter feed,
• media/podcast channel and a
• software mirror for hosting open-source projects.

History

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

• 4 January 2011: Techno FAQ 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.

Management team members

Current team members are

• Sunit Kumar Nandi (team leader, back-end administrator, editor-in-chief of blog and PR manager)
• Igor Rebenko (administrator, audiophile and product reviewer)
• Wrishiraj Kaushik (administrator, Facebook group manager, product reviewer and open-source software expert)
• Ameet Borah (administrator, Facebook group manager and gaming and PC building expert)
• Aisheng Miso (IRC channel operator and developer/coder)
• Bibhuranjan Nath (blog author)
• Pranav Suri (administrator, Facebook page manager, assistant PR manager)
• Manish Gehlot (blog author and free software enthusiast)
• Diogo Costa (blog author)
• Ella Xiong (blog author)

Former 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)
• 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)

Special thanks to

• Pranab Doley for his immense contribution to our hosting infrastructure in our early days.
• x10Hosting LLC for being a wonderful and top-notch web services provider and VIP-like support treatment during our first 4 years.