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First BdOSN Code Sprint concluded with much appreciation and success

Four teams of students, led by professional software engineers from the industry, developed four Open Source Software in First BdOSN CodeSprint 2008 held in Sylhet from 15th to 17th August. The concluding ceremony was held on 17th August with the demonstration of the projects. The concluding ceremony was attended by the students, teachers as well as the participabts. Ms. Anika Mahmud, Lecturer of the department of CSE attended the same as the guest of honor. BdOSN arranged this event for the first time in Bangladesh with the support of SUST Open Source Network and CSE Society.

The SPIDER team, led by Tamim Shahriar Subeen, developed a tool which will allow the user to know the stock price on real time from cell phone. The team used Python as their programming language. Zakaria Chowdhury, along with his team - HOTCAKE, developed a rapid website development tool using PHP. Team GITTU, led by Mizanur Rahman Bipul, developed a social networking tool in Bangla and Omar Shehab, leading his team SHIAL MAMA, developed a Mozilla FireFox toolbar extension which will allow the user to type in Bangla in web page forms even if there is no Bangla support in the system.

The sprint coordinator, Tamim Shahriar, expressed his satisfaction about the quality and completion of the projects. The general secretary of BdOSN, Mr. Munir Hasan, said they will continue similar events in future to bridge the academia and industry in a fruitful manner. The very famous disaster management software SAHANA was also developed in Srilanka during a special sprint - he added. The developed 4 applications will be released formally in coming days. There were also several open talk events to inform students about latest technology and engineering practices in industry.

Guidelines for Writing Posts / Site Recommendations

I’m probably not the right person to be writing a Guideline for SUSTOSN but hey! be open!!

This can also be used to modify previous posts. This is not to ridicule, but just as suggestions!

Slogan:

Current: Be Smart, Be open in Mind, Be open Source!!!

Change to: Capitalize two O in open.

Current: Picture
Change to: Text

Articles:

Please enrich articles that were already posted.

With

• FAQs if the event was an interactive one,
• more pictures per event or atleast links to (Jamil Ahmed bhai mailed a lot of pictures ), Heres a picture that Munir Hasan bhai reported to IOSN, http://www.iosn.net/Members/munirhasan/RanksTelCamp-1/image_mini
• materials shown or covered the the event,
• list of participants
• Problems faced, for example the experience gained in converting all labs (by which SUST OSN have set an example to all other Universities of Bangladesh), should be shared with everyone in details!
• Correct spelling such as RanksTel (NOT RangsTel), that is not to dishearten sponsors
• BdOSN, NOT BDOSN
• Links to news published in other places (http://www.bdosn.org/publications/BdOSN_2007.pdf)
• quoted text from news published in other places etc.

Quoting from BdOSN report 2007

2. Capacity Building - 2.1 Open Source Camp
This year BdOSN introduce the Open Source Camp in the country. The
first ever Open Source Camp in Bangladesh held at SUST, Sylhet on
23-24th March 2007. CSE Society and SUST OSN jointly organized the
event. Ankur and BdOSN provided the support. Students from SUST
and BRAC University participated in the camp. The 2 Day long camp
focuses the capacity building of the students towards Open Source
Software and Open Content Development. The camp covered the
hands on experience with GNU Linux, Open Office, Mozilla,
LAMP/WAMP as well as Wikipedia.
After the successful camp at SUST, similar camps were organized in
BUET, JU, AIUB and IIUC. A total of 5 Open Source Camps were
organized in the year 2007.

These encourage more participation and sense of belongingness. For example, there were 5 Student from BRAC University Computer Club (BUCC), I ( Annajiat Alim Rasel, covered LAMP/WAMP part on behalf of others), Khandaker Wasim Reza Tonmoy, Mohibuzzaman Zico, Shariful Islam Rabbi and Muttakinur Rahman Choudhury Souro.

I will try to do some of the recommended changes as time permits, but hope I am not the only person doing it! I believe SUST OSN already was doing it, and I may have given the feedback too early!

Following are the pictures that Jamil Ahmed Bhai (thanks!) emailed on 23, March 2007. I already uploaded those those this site’s Gallery: ( I hope this will encourage others to do the same )

Ifter party ‘07

Ifter party was arranged by SUST OSN at SUST campus on 4 October. Some teachers and all the executive members were present.

Celebrating Software Freedom Day ‘07

To celebrate Software Freedom Day ‘07 SUST OSN arranged 3 days program at SUST Campus.

Day 1: Linux installation festival
One of the Linux distribution Ubuntu with all other necessary open source software were setup into more than 70 pcs’.

Day 2: Seminar and Workshop
On the seminar Dr. Md. Shahidur Rahman, Associate Professor of CSE dept. and Md. Khalad Hasan, Lecturer of CSE dept. delivered their important speech about Free and Open Source Philosophy. After the seminar workshop on FOSS was taken by Shamal Roy (GS, SUST OSN) and Mitu kumar Debnath (SDA group, SUST OSN).

Day 3: Rally and Closing Ceremony
On the 3rd day about 500 students joined the rally led by Professor Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Head of CSE dept. after the rally he delivered his important speech and declared the closing of 3 days program.

All the labs taken under Linux environment.

All the labs of CSE department have been taken under Linux environment (Ubuntu 7.04). The followings free and open source softwares have been installed Gcc, Anjuta, Oracle 10g, Jdk 1.6, Netbeans, Scite, Scilab, Quanta+, etc.

RanksTel Open Source Camp

SUST OSN with the help of BD OSN, CSE Society, Ankur arranged RanksTel Open Source Camp at SUST Campus for 3 days. About 100 hundred students from various departments became familiar with Linux and other Open Source Softwares.