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Arduino is a mini computer that has a microprocessor, RAM and ROM are embedded in a small chip. An Arduino can be used to solve many practical problems with the combination of different sensors. Arduino is also popular to students for making science projects.

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), Science Popularization Society, Bangladesh and MASLab organized 3 Basic Arduino Workshop in a row in Chittagong. The workshop was sponsored by Bangladesh Services Limited. The workshops held in 3 different Universities of Chittagong. 11th August at Premier University, 12th August at the University of Chittagong and 13th August at International Islamic University, Chittagong. In total 120 participants participated in 3 workshops. There were taught Arduino pin configuration, microcontroller, Basic Electronics, controlling LED lights, use of the digital pin, Pulse width modulation (PWI), temperature sensor, sonar sensor, servo motor, push button and potentiometer. 10 popular Arduino project was introduced to students. They were also introduced to Internet of Things (IoT).Head of CSE Department of Premier University Dr. Towfiq Saeed, Teacher Tutton Mallick, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Professor of the Institute of Forests of Chittagong University, Associate Professor of Internation Islamic University, Chittagong Mahdi Hasan. 12 students will be selected from 3 different works for Advanced Arduino Workshop.

Head of the workshop facilitator Redwan Fesdous said that "This is being organized all over the country to introduce the students of the Internet of Things. Earlier this was organized in Dhaka and Comilla. In the workshop, students used the famous electronics kit Arduino to solve various small problems along with robotic research. Arduino development kit is very popular in the field of Robotics or program based project. The workshop shows you how this open source hardware works"

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Arduino is an open hardware development board that can be used by tinkerers, hobbyists, and makers to design and build devices that interact with the real world. A microprocessor, RAM and ROM are embedded in an Arduino chip. An Arduino can be used to solve many practical problems with the combination of different sensors.

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), Science Popularization Society, Bangladesh and MASLab organized A Basic Arduino Workshop in Daffodil International University on 28th July, 2017. In total 40 participants participated in The workshop. There were taught Arduino pin configuration, microcontroller, Basic Electronics, controlling LED lights, use of digital pin, Pulse width modulation (PWI), temperature sensor, sonar sensor, servo motor, push button and potentiometer. 10 popular Arduino project was introduced to students. They were also introduced to Internet of Things (IoT). Munir Hasan, General Secretary of BdOSN was present in the workshop.

In the end, 10 real life Arduino project was showed and explained how it works. There was a test before ending. 4 students will be selected for Advance Arduino Workshop.
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Arduino is getting more popular among students day by day. The main reason behind it is open source and the community of Arduino. Information about Arduino is very easy to get from online. Students are making a lot of new things with it to make life easier.

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh (SPSB) and MASLab organized Basic Arduino Workshop to make it more popular with students at Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology. A total number of 33 students from different schools, colleges and universities of Comilla participated in the workshop.
The workshop started at 10 AM and continued until 5 PM. Col. A.H.M. Kamal, Register of BAIUST, Jahidul Arafat, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, BAIUST and Meskat Jahan, Lecturer, Department of CSE, BAIUST was present at the workshop. Besides researching on robotics students used the Arduino development kit to solve small electronic problems. The students were taught hands-on how to use the Arduino to solve problems.

There were taught Arduino pin configuration, microcontroller, Basic Electronics, controlling LED lights, use of digital pin, Pulse width modulation (PWI), temperature sensor, sonar sensor, servo motor, push button and potentiometer. 10 popular Arduino project was introduced to students. They were also introduced to the Internet of Things (IoT).
The Workshop ended with an exam. Though that exam, participants for IoT fiesta will be selected, Mosaraf Hossain Tipu, Program Coordinator of BdOSN announced about IoT fiesta.

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and চাকরী খুঁজবো না চাকরী দেব organized a seminar on বাংক ঋনের সাত সতের. The seminar started at 3:30 PM and continued to 6:30 PM on 15th July 2017.The seminar held at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro. There were 40 participants in total including men and women. Shakwat Hossain, Managing Director of Bangladesh Venture and Mohammed Gazi Tauhidur Rahman, Proprietor, FM plastic were present as speakers at the seminar. They discussed about bank loan in detail, what entrepreneurs should do for the bank loan and what peppers they will be needed for a bank loan.

All the participants had a clear idea about the bank loan system and they were glad that the seminar was organized. they are hoping for more seminars like this to be held.

Computer Programming is becoming more popular day by day. People are understanding the need of computer programming as everything is related to computers nowadays. Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) is working on making people interested in computer programming.

BdOSN organized a computer programming camp at Jessore Cantonment College. 3-day long programming camp started on 08th July 2017 and ended on 10th July 2017. A total number of 45 participants participated in the camp. The camp was moderated by Badhan Sen, Saiful Islam, Nasim Akash and Mizanur Rahman. Starting from programming basic there was taught conditional logic, loop, nested loop, array, function, string and basic problem-solving. Kazi Iqbalur Rashid, vice principal of the Jessore Cantonment College and human Kabir, teacher of mathematics department were present at the camp. The camp finished with a programming contest.

List of winners: 

1. Sohanur Rahman, 1st year (HSC)

2. Nahid, 2nd year (HSC)

3. Sabbir Hossain, 2nd year (HSC)

Kazi Iqbalur Rashid said, "We will organize more camp like this in future. " He also said, "This world is lightened by the light of information technology, The person who knows well about information technology will be the king in future"

International Girls In ICT Day is internationally celebrated on the 4th Thursday of April every year. The motive is to encourage girls and young women to study and select ICT as their career. Bangladesh Open Source Network(BdOSN) is celebrating Girls In ICT day since 2015 with Women In Digital. There are a lot of events in the celebration of International Girls In ICT day such as open house day, boot camp, workshop, school quiz and roundtable discussion.

Jenex is one of the biggest call centers in Bangladesh. There was an open house day visit on Jenex on 24th May 2017. There were a total number of 25 participants from different universities. MD Faysal Alam Riyad, coordinator, BdOSN led the girls. The girls were amazed that every one of them talked to call center at least for once and they didn't know how a center works. They learned a lot about the call center in this visit. The girls were so interested that they visited the other branch at Nitol Tower on khilkhet. There were some girls who already decided to drop their CV on Jenex as it's not too hard to work there.

MD Faysal Alam Riyad said "The girls were very curious about the visit and after the visit, they looked very happy." He also thanked Jenex for giving the girls a chance to visit their office.

Let’s welcome the newly joined members of Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) from Central Women's University (CWU). There was a 3 day long Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp at CWU. It was so successful that they were very interested in being long-term members of our initiatives on ICT, Computer Programming, Coding and relevant contests.

Here is the member list with their taken roles:

Apart from them, there is one moderator named:

Ayesha Aziz Prova, Lecturer, CSE

The three honorable advisors on the board are:

1. Mst. Shahnaj Parvin, Associate Professor, CSE

2. Sher Shermin Azmeri Khan, Assistant Professor, CSE

3. Md Mainul Islam, Assistant Professor, CSE

The software is a tool for computer to solve different tasks. And open source software's are this software which is free for everyone to use and also the software source code is available for anyone to edit and make a better version for use.

HSTU-OSN organized a seminar on computer fundamental and introduction to introduce the open source software to all and let them know about the benefits of using open source software on 4th June 2017 at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University. The seminar started at 3:30 PM. It was managed the managing editor of HSTU-OSN Rakibul Islam and performed by the financial affairs secretary of HSTU-OSN Mir Muhaiminul Hoque. HSTU-OSN general secretary Fahim Ahmed and HSTU-OSN assistant general secretary Sourav Das were also present there as guest. Former moderator of HSTU-OSN and assistant professor of CSE department Delwar Hossain and Ashish Kumar Mondal, HSTU-OSN current moderator and professor of ECE department Tanzina Sultana Dristy and professor of the CSE department Nahid Sultan was also present there.

General Secretary of HSTU-OSN Md. Mazharul Islam Mukut gave an introduction and shared the activities of HSTU-OSN at the first part. On the second part, workshop affairs secretary of HSTU-OSN Sabbir Ahmed talked about Computer fundamentals and benefit of using open source software. The seminar ended with a satisfaction of participant that they were able to know a lot of things about open source software and computer

Today's Computer Programmers are the wizards of tomorrow because they are the one who's doing the development on ICT. And nowadays ICT is used everywhere. Event the agriculture have the usage of ICT. This development can't be done by the men only. Women also need to work with the men. But the present status tells a different story. Women have a lack of interest in ICT. Even though they study in computer science engineering they don't seem to have ICT as their career. Bangladesh Open Source Network is working on making girls interested in ICT careers. It has a lot of programs, event, and workshop for teaching girls computer programming hands-on to make girls interested to take ICT as their career.

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) organized a Grace Hopper Girl Programming Camp at Central Women's University for building up confidence in ICT of the students of the university. Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp is a 3-day long camp for college to university second-year students to build up their computer programming skill. Starting on 1st June 2017, the camp ended on 3rd June 2017. There were a total number of 25 students of Central Women's University participating the camp. Starting from basic the program to function and the array was taught hands-on in the program. BdOSN's Programme Coordinator Mosaraf Hossain Tipu and Humaun Kabir coordinated the program. The Program ending with the certificate giving ceremony. Bangladesh Open Source Network's Programme Officer Sharmin Kabir was present on the certificate giving ceremony.

Mosaraf Hossain Tipu, Programme Coordinator, said - 'There are many girls who are actually interested in computer programming, but they didn't have anything to start with. They were very glad that the program was organized. It was very effective for them.'