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Localization

The official language of all 140 million people of Bangladesh is 'Bangla'. Though English is taught in schools, colleges and universities here, a big portion of the literate people can't read English. The localization related activities of the BdOSN divided in Software Localization and Content Localization.

Software localization, lead by Ankur deals with the localization of Linux, Open Office, Gaim etc. The present thrust is with Open Office.org. To involve more people in the localization of software BdOSN organizes boot camp in different educational institution.

One of the main reason that open source is not being popular in Bangladesh is lack of Bangla contents that can reach the mass people. These contents mainly comprise books and web contents. At this moment there are a good number of open contents exists in English language. Some of them are published under GFDL/GNU/CC license and thus suitable for translation in other language. Among these two special types of books may be taken for translation. First, the books that will help people understand open source, benefits of open source, impact of open source in government, education and other important sectors of our lives. Another type of books is tutorials and user guides that will help people to use open source software.

One of the most successful open source projects is wikipedia. Like wikipedia of other languages, Bangla wikipedia is growing also, though still infant. After BdOSN has taken initiative to expedite the growth of Bangla wikipedia, it's growing faster. Though number of entries in Bangla wikipedia is already over 9000, most of these are stubs (i.e. incomplete article). So the next thing to do with Bangla wikipedia is to enrich the current articles or to create new good/complete articles.

Other Affairs

BdOSN signed MoU with Bangladesh TeleCentre Network

BdOSN and Bangladesh TeleCentre Network (BTN ) will work together to promote open source philosophy in grass root level. The volunteers of BdOSN will provide assistance to the members of BTN who wanted to run their centre with open source software. They will extend their cooperation to the grass root youth for developing skill for open content creation and distribution. BTN, through their network, promote users regarding software piracy and will create awareness among its members so that they can choose between different options of software. In this regard, BdOSN and BTN signed a MoU on 12th July 2008.

Dhaka, July 12, 2008 READMORE

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Anti Tobacco Campaign at BRAC University held

Every year 57,000 Bangladeshi had died and another 3,52,000 had become crippled because of Tobacco. Worldwide tobacco industries targeted the youth for expanding their market. The statistics shows that more of the youth who are habituated with tobacco stick to it than other age groups. So, it is very important to keep the youth free from tobacco. This call once again was uttered in the anti-tobacco campaign organized by BdOSN and BUSEF on 7th July 2008. Dr Zainab Ali, Director, Student Affairs of BRAC univerisity (BRACU) presided over the programme while Professor Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor, BRACU and Dr Mostafa Zaman, NPO, NCD, WHO and Mr Munir Hasan of BdOSN attended the meeting as guest of honour.

Dhaka, July 07, 2008 READMORE

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July Issue of Mukto Barta Published

The thitd issue of BdOSN's monthly bulletin just published. Check the publication section of this website.

Dhaka, July 07, 2008

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BdOSN Monthly Talk - Searching life in outer space:The Open approach

The form of life in outer space may be different, they may look like alien, may have a very big head compare to body or may have only head! Who knows? But if they are intelligent enough then they must know how to transmit and receive radio signal. This is the motto of the searching extraterrestrial intelligence in the SETI project. The open model of the SETI@Home project allowed people from different corner of the world to collaborate, to analyze the huge amount of data in a distributed computing environment. All the above were revealed in the monthly talk of BdOSN on 28th, June 2008. The talk was held in FREPD auditorium. Mr Omar Shehab and Ms Sabila Enun, both the core members of BdOSN delivered their talks on the open model of collaboration and computing.

Dhaka, June 28, 2008 READMORE