Home About Us Join Us Contact Us

• Home
• About Us
• Why Open Source
• Open Source Network
• Publication
• Upcoming Events
• Join Us
• News Archives
• Contact Us
• Webmail

News Archives

Recent Events

Monthly Talk July - Zen Cart
The Monthly talk of BdOSN for the month of july will be held on 26th July 2008, Friday at FREPD Auditorium, Dhaka. Mr Suhreed Sarker will talk about " eCommerce site Using Zen Cart". Zen Cart is a open source web development tool. Zen cart is now widely used for developing e-Commerce site. The talk is open for all.

Dhaka, July 26, 2008 READMORE

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

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

Talk on Intelectual Property Right : Bangladesh Perspective
A talk on the topic of Intelectual Property Right : Bangladesh Perspective will be held on 12th July 2008 at FREPD Auditorium, Dhaka at 5 pm. Mr Rashid Naim, Core Member of BdOSN will deliver the key note paper. Among others the Dr M Zafar Iqbal, Dr A R Khan, Mr F R Khan will take part in the discussion. The event is open for all.

Dhaka, July 12, 2008

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

Other Affairs

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

---

Monthly Talk -June

The monthly talk of the month of BdOSN will be held on 28th June, 2008, Saturday at 5 pm. The talk will be held at FREPD auditorium (Near Polassy Crossing) and open for all. The topic of the talks are Serach for extra terrestial intelligence and open source and the experience sharing of the India, Nepal and Indonesia's FOSS activities.

Dhaka, June 28, 2008

---

A new Ubuntu-lab marked the Ubuntu Release Party in NSTU

As a part of its nationwide celebration of the new release of Ubuntu Linux, a party was held at the department of CSTE at Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU). NSTU Open Source Network organized the party on 22nd, June 2008. Dr Humayun Kabir, Head of CSTE, NSTU attended the party as the Chief Guest and unpacked the cover of an Ubuntu CD. In his speech, he gave emphasis on the uses of Open Source Software (OSS) by students.

Noakhali, June 22, 2008 READMORE

---

Members Gathering

The members gathering of BdOSN will be held on 24th June at Star Hotel, Dhanmondi, Road 2 at 5.30pm onward. All members are requested to report in time.

Dhaka, June 24, 2008

---

COSN celebrated the release of Ubuntu 8.04

A discussion on the topic "FOSS- Bangladesh Perspective" marked the Ubuntu 8.04 launching programme in Chittagong. Chittagong Open Source Network, a network of BdOSN organized the party at a City restaurant, Kentuky on 20th, June 2008. The party was attended by the guest of honour Dr Muhammad Safiullah, Gulam Rabiul Islam and Shanawaz Islam of IIUC, Fouzia Ashraf Moushumi of Chittagong University, SAM Harun and Akramul Haidar from Software industries. In their speeches, the guests gave emphasis on using and developing Open Source Software in Bangladesh to protect the freedom of software. They urged the academia and industry to develop our own technology to protect the future of the country.

Chittagong, June 20, 2008 READMORE

---

Ubuntu Release Party : IIUC, Chittagong

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) is arranging Ubuntu launching parties for the new version of Ubuntu Linux (8.04) throughout the country. A party was arranged on the occasion at International Islamic University (Chiitagong) campus on 18 June 2008 Wednesday.
The party was organized by IIUC Open Source Network at the University. The Chief Guest for the occasion was the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University, Dr. Mohammad. Shafiullah. He launched the CD of Ubuntu 8.04 Linux, which is redistributed by BdOSN in Bangladesh. Everybody present at the party called for more use of Open Source Software to establish Freedom of Software.

Chittagong, June 18, 2008 READMORE

---

The Anti Tobacco campaign at UIU was held

The announcement came as a surprise. Professor Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, the Pro Vice Chancellor of United International University, Dhaka announced that he would give up smoking from the moment, although he have had almost a full packet of cigarettes that he brought the day before. Like this announcement, more fun, excitement and obviously the commitments took place at the occasion of the anti tobacco campaign at UIU auditorium, on 16th June. The programme "The declaration of completely tobacco free campus of UIU" with the slogan "Be Libra, Be Free, Free from Tobacco" was organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and was supported by World Health Organization (WHO), Bangladesh Country Office. Around 300 students, teachers and guest enjoyed the programme with three guest of honour – Professor Dr M Rizwan Khan, Professor Dr M Zafar Iqbal and Dr M Mostafa Zaman. Dr Iqbal Kabir of WHO programme presented the basic information and some dangerous fact about tobacco. He mentioned that Tobacco is the single largest reason for the death of people around the world. Mr Munir Hasan conducted the session.

UIU, Dhaka, June 16, 2008 READMORE

---

Anti Tobacco campaign in UIU

As part of its Tobacco Free Youth Campaign, BdOSN is supporting WHO to organize seminar in different universities in the country. The first such programme will be held at United International University, Dhaka on 16th June, 4pm. Among others Professor Dr Rizwan Khan, Professor M Zafar Iqbal, Professor Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman and Dr Mostafa Zaman of WHO will attend the seminar. The seminar is open for all.

UIU, Dhaka, June 16, 2008

---

Sharing the experience of Zero Gravity Flight

Mr F R Sarker, General Secretary of Bangladesh Astronomical Society and the First Bangladeshi to participate in Zero Gravity Flight shared his ”weight-less experience” with hundreds of audience in FREPD auditorium on 11th June. The experience sharing gathering was organized jointly by Bangladesh Astronomical Society and Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN). As the first Bangladeshi, Mr. Sarker participated in a Zero Gravity Flight on 24 May, 2008 on board a Boeing 727 plane operated by Zero Gravity Corporation from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Dhaka, June 11, 2008 READMORE

---

Ubuntu 8.04 release party

All local OSN's are organizing release party on the occassion of the worldwide release of Ubuntu Linux 8.04. First three parties will be held as per the following schedule--

1. BUET, Dhaka - 12th June, 2008 (Completed)
2. IIUC OSN, Ctg - 18th June, 2008 City Campus
3. COSN - Kentaky, East Gate of medical College, 20th June, 4pm.
4. NSTU, Noakhali - 22nd June, 2008

Parties are open for all.

Chittagong, June 22, 2008