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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.

Published July 31, 2008 DOWNLOAD

Bangla Language, Bangla Academy, Wikipedia and Our Children
Author describe the efforts of volunteers to promote the pride of Bangla language Movement through Wikipedia. At the sametime, he requested Bangla Acadmy to take effective measures to uphold the Bangla language in cyber world. He also urges to change tje rules of the academy's membership so that the student can also be a prt of it.

Published February 21, 2008 DOWNLOAD

Golam Nabi on SoftExpo 2008
In this column, technology columnlist Mohammad Golam Nabi expresssed his idea about Soft Expo and BASIS. He expressed that BASIS is not performing its task towards nation building.

Published February 14, 2008 DOWNLOAD

Software Piracy and Bangladesh
This artilce covers the aspect of CopyRight issue for the least developed country. As per WTO agreement, LDCs have waiver of strict application of Copy Right law. The article also brief how this issue can be handle with Open Source Software.

Published December 05, 2007 DOWNLOAD

Why Software Should Not Have Owners
Shiper translated the famous article by RMS. In this article, RMS shows why software should be free and should have certain freedom.

Published June 24, 2007 DOWNLOAD

Localization and Bangladesh
Localization is not a new idea in this country. However, it gains some new momentum in recent years. Mr subeen described the present scenario of localization in the country.

Published June 24, 2007 DOWNLOAD

Wikipedia- Peoples Encyclopedia by Ragib Hasan
This is the lecture that Mr Ragib Hasan, PhD Student, Dept of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, the Administrator of English Version of Wikipedia and a Bureaucrat of Bangla Wikipedia delivered on the occasion of 3rd Zohurul Haque-Abdullah Al-Muti Sarfuddin Memorial Lecture on 15th January 2007. This is a combine description of Wikipedia and efforts for Bangla Wikipedia.

Published June 04, 2007 DOWNLOAD

Free and Open Source Software in our Language and in our independence
This article is a short description of the impact of Open Source software in Bangla Language and in our independence. The article gives a vivid description how the movement "Need Bangla in Computer" became the movement of "Bangla Computer". The article also explained the need for Open Contents for our mass people.

Published March 02, 2007 DOWNLOAD

Other Affairs

Talk on Zen Cart held

The monthly talk of BdOSN for the month of July 2008 held at FREPD auditorium on 26th July 2008. Mr Suhreed Sarker presented the keynote talk on the topic “e-commerce site development using Zen card”. ( Zen Cart) an open source shopping cert software is now gaining popularity among the e-commerce site developer. Mr Sarker explained that the popularity was because of its user friendly environment and new features. Some of the features included but not limited to multiple customer modes, unlimited category depth , multiple sales and discounts , XHTML template system , multiple shipping options , multiple payment options, provision for gift voucher etc. Besides the programme allowed to write and uses third party plug-ins in a comfortable manner. He showed the different aspect of the programme to the audience.

Dhaka, July 26, 2008 READMORE

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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