GNU/Linux Communities at Telegram

I listed here popular English-based GNU/Linux community's Telegram groups and also several FLOSS websites' Telegram channels like Kubuntu support group and OMG! Ubuntu site channel. To make it easier for you and me, I don't make distinction between official and unofficial ones. For some communities, like CentOS group below, I listed the non-English one while I didn't find the English one. I also listed more resources at the end so you can find more Telegram groups you would love. I wish everybody could join and make good friends there and I also want for more GNU/Linux communities to make their own Telegram groups. Enjoy!

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About Telegram

Telegram is a free software modern chatting application that is mostly similar to WhatsApp. Telegram is available in all platforms namely GNU/Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS. Telegram also has web interface just like WhatsApp's. Download Telegram Desktop (GNU GPLv3) for your GNU/Linux at https://desktop.telegram.org.

Background

This is a little bit reasoning behind making of this list: I want every community and every GNU/Linux website to consider making Telegram group / channel for themselves. For example, at the time I made this list, first I could find Kubuntu's group but not Ubuntu's despite I like both distros; and second, I could find OMG! Ubuntu's channel but not Tecmint's despite I like both sites. However I publish this article at 7 October 2019 so I believe this state will surely change in the future.

General:

GNU/Linux in general:

• GNU/Linux: https://t.me/linux_group
• Belajar GNU/Linux Indonesia (BGLI):  https://t.me/GNULinuxIndonesia

Distros:

Ubuntu:

• Ubuntu Hong Kong: https://t.me/ubuntuhk
• Ubuntu Indonesia: https://t.me/joinchat/CP_eKUB_OC64g_lXYusTPQ 
• Ubuntu Cinnamon: https://t.me/ubuntucinnamon 

Ubuntu Studio:
https://t.me/joinchat/GOahGRO58UkXsnNQmx4dVg

UBPorts (Ubuntu Touch):
https://t.me/ubports

Mint:
https://t.me/LinuxMintGroup

Kubuntu:
https://telegram.me/kubuntu_support

Lubuntu (channel):
https://t.me/LubuntuOfficial

elementary OS:
https://t.me/elementaryosusers

openSUSE:
https://t.me/openSUSE_group

Fedora:
https://t.me/fedora

CentOS:
CentOS Indonesia: https://t.me/centosID

Arch:
https://t.me/archlinuxgroup

Manjaro:
https://t.me/Manjaro

Solus:
https://t.me/solusproject

Neon:
https://telegram.me/kdeneon

Kali:
Kali Indonesia: https://t.me/KaliLinuxID

Deepin:
https://t.me/deepin

Parrot Security OS:
https://t.me/parrotsecgroup

Qubes Security OS:
https://t.me/joinchat/B8FHpkEToMfgdREGV7wzRQ

Antergos*:
https://t.me/Antergos

Endeavour OS (Antergos successor):
https://t.me/Endeavouros 

EndlessOS:
https://t.me/EndlessOS

*) Discontinued distro, I listed it here with respect to their developers' effort up to today. I express my gratitude and sympathy to them.

Applications:

Mozilla:
https://telegram.me/mozillian

LibreOffice:
https://telegram.me/libreoffice

KDE:
http://t.me/kdeplasma
GNOME:
GNOME Indonesia: https://t.me/gnomeid

GIMP and Inkscape:
GimpScape Indonesia: https://telegram.me/gimpscape

Krita:
Krita Taiwan: https://t.me/KritaTW

Kdenlive:
https://t.me/kdenlive

Vim:
https://t.me/VimUserGroup

Emacs:
https://t.me/emacs_en


C++/Qt:
https://t.me/CplusplusQt

Websites:

OMG! Ubuntu:
https://t.me/omgubuntu

It's FOSS:
https://t.me/itsfoss_official

UbuntuBuzz:
https://t.me/ubuntubuzz 

Distrowatch:
https://t.me/distrowatch

System76 (US-based GNU/Linux computer vendor):
https://t.me/system76_news

Interesting Resources

For you wanting more Telegram groups, you could read these lists by communities. See here, KDE has resource page listing their Telegram groups, so do Fedora and some other distros. I hope more free software projects & distros to follow them in supporting Telegram community.

• Hendi's List (Indonesia only)
• Awesome Telegram List (by ebertti)
• Awesome Telegram List (by learn-anything) 
• Awesome Telegram List (by stkw0)
• List of Awesome Telegram Lists (by lorien)
• Telegram Search Engine
• KDE's List
• Fedora's List
• openSUSE's List
• Arch's List

I hope you find this list useful!

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