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Popularization

One of the key activities of BdOSN is to popularize Open Source Philosophy in general and Open Source Software in particular in the country. Following the different activities and To DO list in this area:

1. Organize seminars/talks/symposium,
2. Prepare Press Materials for the media and circulate it through prining and electronic media,
3. Arrange non-formal OS Adda at its office and in different organizations,
4. Organize day long Open Source booth at different places to distribute OSS related materials,
5. Distribute OSS in CD media, and
6. Publish advocacy material(s) and distribute it through out the country.

A. Some of the recent programmes organized in this field were -

1. Motivation seminar at D-net on 14th October 2006 :

   All the employees of Development Research Network (D.Net), have decided to use open source code-based software in phases. D.net, which is working to reach the benefit of ICT to the common people, took the decision after wrapping up a workshop on 'Our Software, Our Freedom' at its office in Dhaka. Munir Hasan of Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN), presented a keynote paper at the workshop while Ananya Raihan, executive director of D.Net started the discussion.

2. Motivation seminar at Khulna University 8th October 2006 :

   On 8th October 2006 Khulna University arranged a seminar on "Our Technology, Our Freedom". The biological part of the seminar was covered by Dr Abed Chowdhury in his talk titled- Our Gene, Our Freedom and the information technology part was covered by Mr Munir Hasan. In his talk Mr Hasan describe the different aspects of the Open Source Software and motivate a good number of students to constitute their own Open Source Network as early as possible.

Previously such programmes were organized at SUST, BUET, DU, BRAC University, RUET and MIST.

B. Regular OS adda
You can join us in regular Open Source Adda at BdOSN office on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday from 4pm to 6pm.

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