Welcome to This Month in TechTransThai of October 2026!

Here’s a collection of news from the TechTransThai Community in this month.

Mapping Thailand

Bangkok University bus stops

PPNPlus has mapped bus stops inside the Bangkok University’s campus area. This is how it looks like on OpenStreetMap.

bus stop BU

OSM Thailand Community & HOT Meet-up

On October 10, the Mapping Thailand crew attended OSM Thailand Community & HOT Meet-up and we had a long presentation about how we contributed to OpenStreetMap in various ways. Read the full blog post here on TechTransThai blog.

OSM Meetup

Campaigns

Late Night Defender has launched 5 mapping campaigns for the Mapping Thailand project:

4 village mapping campaigns, 1 ice cream chain mapping. Click each campaign’s link for full details.

*HELP WANTED: As of writing, the Wikidata entry for Tian Tian is currently incomplete, and the Wikipedia redirect request is still waiting to be accepted. Contributions in this area are strongly encouraged.

Security Research

blueskychan_ has uncovered a trojanized VS Code extension (Geaix), which was linked to the infamous MrBeast scam. She also took down the malware’s infrastructure via provider’s abuse reports, submitted findings to MalwareBazaar and reported on AbuseIPDB. Read the full publication here on TechTransThai Blog

Geaix

Thai Linux User Community

For TLUC, we used to passively maintain the “portal” website, now we’re actively driving the community forward by organizing physical/offline events.

Our first “TechTransThai-organized” event ever, KDE 30 ปี: สร้างโลกที่ดีกว่าไปด้วยกัน, held at The Meeting Place in Samyan, Bangkok, was successfully organized on Oct 17, 2026.

KDE 30th

The event discussion consisted of KDE history storytelling, “How my wife uses KDE”, various KDE software demos, current state of KDE Plasma on touchscreen devices, KDE translation, KDE gaming performance demos with Roblox (using PS4-like controller!) and Zenless Zone Zero, KDE on NixOS inside an Android phone via Qualcomm Gunyah hypervisor and more.

A livestream is available on I.T.COUNTRY’s YouTube channel

Now that we’re growing big, this means the TLUC Website project graduated from the Incubator, and became “Thai Linux User Community” as a Core project. Thank you everyone for making this possible!

Compute4Change

For the October Sprint: we crunched 479k credits for Einstein@home, thank you everyone for your participation!

Miscellaneous

Considering various issues we found using Telegram, we’re now providing a new Matrix room (after past failed attempt) as an alternative. Join us on Matrix.org

We need your help

TechTransThai is the work of contributors helping in their free time using their own small budgets, and as we are running low on available contributors, we are being stretched thin. If you like what we do, please consider:

  • Joining our chats and say hi, to signal that our projects matter to you.
  • Contributing to our projects listed on the website, or reviving archived ones.
  • Financially support us so we can host more events and keep the lights on, by transferring funds to Bank of Ayudhya 0087267101 (Asitharana Worakulsawat). If you donate, please send the transfer slip to admin <at> techtransthai <dot> org to let us know it’s meant for TechTransThai!
  • Spreading the word!

That’s all!

That’s what we’ve been up to for now. Stay tuned for our next blog post via Matrix, RSS or Telegram!