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Ada Lovelace Girls Programming Camp is a Programming Training Camp for girls from class 6 to college. It's a  camp where girls from high school and college were trained up for computer programming and get a chance to prepare them to participate in the national and international programming contest.

The two days long Ada Lovelace Girls Programming Camp held in Narayanganj Ideal High School. There was 23 Participate from 3 different schools in the camp. As they are newbie in programming, the course was on the basics of computer programming. There were two mentors maintaining the camp. The girls showed their highest interest in programming and they already decided that they would participate in the National School Programming Contest.

Lafifa Jamal Head of the Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Dhaka University was present at the first day of the camp. She talked to girls about how computer programming important is and how the world depends on computer programming. She also shared her experience in computer programming. Anwar Hossain, the headmaster of Narayanganj Ideal School was present in the certificate giving ceremony. He handed over certificates to all the students by himself.

#Missingdaughter has triumphed the year 2016 with innumerous achievements throughout Bangladesh that has been wrapped up with the 3 days long workshop at Noakhali Science and Technology University. The duration of the Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp was on the 27^th of December 2016 and ended on the 29^th.

The topics covered in these 3 days camp are below:

1. Introduction to programming
2. Girls in Programming
3. Biography of Grace Hoper
4. Biography of 3/4 female
5. entrepreneurs in software
6. Industry
7. Make some fun with brain
8. storming problems (if possible)
9. Show some statistics regarding
10. Girls participation in programming
11. Collect some points raised by
12. Conduct an interactive session
13. (question and answer)
14. Quick Recap of C
15. Control Structure( ifelse, loop, switch)
16. Function
17. Array (Implementation)
18. String (basic operation)
19. Brainstorming Task
20. Solve at least 2 interesting problems.
21. Sorting Algorithm
22. Implementation of a sorting algorithm
23. Searching Algorithm
24. Implementation of a searching Algorithm
25. STL
26. DP
27. Graph Theory

Along with the trainers there, Dr. Noza Ahmed, Assistant Professor of North South University was on Skype and share valuable knowledge with the participants. 

Let’s welcome the new members joined with BdOSN’s journey from Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology. After a very successful 3 days long Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp held at the university on the last October, the participants, organizers and local moderators were interested to be a 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 are two moderators named:

1. Khalil Ahmmad, Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, BAIUST

2. Meskat Jahan, Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, BAIUST

The two honorable advisors on the board are:

1. Golam Moktadir Nayeem, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, BAIUST

2. Jahidul Arafat, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE , BAIUST

To note, the ITU Girls in ICT Facebook page has also covered the BdOSN’s news on the Comilla training camp on their page congratulating our success in raising girls participation in such events by “"Get inspired by the great results Bangladesh Open Source Network is achieving through the Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp (GHGPTC), a 3-day hands-on programming camp which has trained already hundreds of girls in several districts with the aim of covering soon the whole country. #girlsinict”.

Read news here: http://www.bdosn.org/news/63-grace-hopper-girls-programming-training-camp-held-in-comilla

We believe, together we will be able to make Bangladesh a better ICT hub in the days ahead. Thank you for your cooperation and trust on us.

Hour of Code was founded by Hadi Partovi and his brother Ali Partovi in order to make people interested in Computer programming. Nowadays anything we do is related to computer. So everyone should know how to use the computer. Learning the use of the computer is not enough but we have to learn how the computer works does. People think we have to study computer science in order to know how the computer works does. Hadi Partovi and his brother Ali Partovi wanted to remove this conception and make easy to learn to code. That's why they developed some games to teach people to code.

Hour Of Code is a one-hour events that is open for everyone to share knowledge about computer programming. Bangladesh Open Source Network has arranged celebrating Hour Of Code in Computer Science Week 2016.  The idea of Computer Science Week was initiated in 2014 and already spread all over the world rapidly. Bangladesh Open source Network (BdOSN) organizes Hour Of Code in Bangladesh on behalf of the code.org in Computer Science Education Week in the second week of December. There was a series of programs organized within this time. 

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) organized Hour of code in many different places in and outside Dhaka. The last one was held in Mirpur-2 on 23/14/16. It was held in a coaching center in front of Dhaka Commerce College named Samet Commerce Care Coaching. A Number of 23 children attended at the event. They played games that are available on Code.org and learned a lot about Computer. In the end, they seemed very interesting about the Computer Science and related things.

The 3-days long Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp in Tangail was successfully curtained on the last 24^thDecember at the Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University. A total number of 42 students from school, college and university actively participated in the event. Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) has been organizing such programming camps throughout Bangladesh.

The CSE department of the university led the camp. Dr. Motiur Rahma, the chairperson of the department inaugurated the camp on the 22^ndDecember. The participants enthusiastically took part in the discussion and the hands on activities led by the trainers. Along with the programming, some other important points were discussed in the event. Dynamic programming, essential mathematics for programming and the challenges to participate in the national programming training competition were highlighted in the event. Two faculties from the department named Delwar Hossain and Mohammed Ashraful Islam led the camp. Mr. Nahidul Islam from Jahangirnagar University supported throughout the program.

It is worthwhile to mention that, the Grace Hopper Girls Programming Camp is an initiative of #missingdaughter that aims to create a platform for the girls in Bangladesh in programming and ICT. The next camp was arranged at the University of Noakhali Science and Technology on the last  27^thDecember to 29^th 2016.

Following the first ever successful workshop on 'Unlock the potential of Big Data' on 24th June 2016 at University of Asia Pacific Dhaka, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) is going to organize the second workshop of its series titled " A workshop on Innovation- Focusing Big Data" on the coming 22nd of December. The workshop will be held at the Bangladesh Computer Council at Agargaon. The duration of the session will be from 9:00am to 3:00pm.

Anyone with CSE, EEE, statistics or business background can participate in the workshop. However, poeple skilled thropugh KHTPA or LICT SEIP prpogram are highly encouraged to apply and be part of the potential session. 

Interested people are instructed to go to the link below and fill up accordingly to be eligible to attend the session.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOr6HWOoKRwtn07WaaR_B-sKDOpLOZtDTFjE78URi79KOZmw/viewform?c=0&w=1

Hour of Code (hourofcode.com) is the international programme to promote programming among the school going students. It was initiated in 2013 and celebrated worldwide in the international computer science week to held from 8-14 December every year. The idea is to celebrate an hour-long programming event to inspire the students, children or anyone for programming.

This year, BdOSN partnering with Shikkok dot com, Cloud System, Himu Poribohon, Dimik Comuting School and ISOC has taken an initiative to expand the mission of Hour of Code in different districts as well as in multiple high schools in different parts in the country. Adding to, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) is the co-organizer of this event.

Bangladesh Open Source Network arranged a day-long event of “Hour Of Code” at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro on 8^th December. There were 2 mentors conducting the segment. 30 people attended the event, ranging from primary school students to university. The event started with an introduction with the basic understanding of computer programming. Then various games that are available on code.org website were played by the participants in the event. Some problems and mathematical terms were also solved by programming in the event.

A girl from 4th grade told that she really enjoyed the event and she already said to her mother that she would continue learning to code and be a programmer. She also told that she learned a lot of things from the segment and thanked BdOSN for organizing Hour Of Code.

BdOSN is planning for more Hour Of code throughout the country. It's already confirmed that there will be an event in Chittagong, Comilla, and Borgona at the coming Sunday 11-12-16 and City University in 15-12-16.

The preparatory meeting for National High School Programming Contest (NHSPC) -2017 held today at Software Technology Park (Janata Tower), Kawran Bazar on 4th December 2016 with the presence of the honorable ICT State Minister Junaid Ahmed Palak. The acting secretary of ICT Division started the meeting with the permission of the ICT Minister. He requested Mr. Munir Hasan, the joint secretary of Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) to continue the meeting. He then showed a video documentary on the NHSPC 2015-2016 and brought the main activities and achievements to the audiences’ attention.

An impact video of NHSPC was shown in the meeting where a rural poor girl named Rakhi, by her own effort, learnt coding on her parents’ smartphone and then later became the first in the Jessore regional programming contest in 2016. She is so passionate that she dreams to work at Facebook or Google in her future. The significant story of Rakhi drew the audiences and got a huge applause.

However, the detailed plan for 2017 NHSPC was shared with the participants and there came some decisions with the democratic participation of the active stakeholders.

It is decided to reach 2021 schools in 2017 including the 2001 Sheikh Russel Digital Lab. The National High School Programming Contest 2017 will have 2 new programs like girls programming contest and kid programming festival. Ten winners will be taken in IOI and there will be a provision for all the winners to continue their programming practice for not losing interesting in computer programming.

The honorable minister proposes to reach 15,000 schools in 2019 whereas this number will be 21,000 in 2021.Keeping the vision of Digital Bangladesh 2021, the NHSPC is contributing a lot to build a digital Bangladesh.

HSTU Open Source Network (HSTU-OSN) of Haji Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University has announced its new committee on 29^th November 2016. The 2016-17 session of HSTU Open Source Network (HSTU-OSN) aims to move forward with Software freedom that has been announced under the Bangladesh Open Source Network this day. The associate professor of CSE department and former moderator of HSTU Md Delwar Hossain, assistant professor of CSE department and founder Ashish Kumar Mandal, and lecturer of ECE department Tanjina Sultana Dristy were present in the announcement event.

The newly formed working committee was moderated by Delwar Hossain. Tanjina Sultana Dristy has been elected as the new moderator of HSTU. The committee announced Farhad Moktar as chairman, Ashiqur Rahman as vice-chairman and Fahim Ahmed as general secretary. Students of CSE department have been appointed in some different positions in the ceremony. Moreover, students from different courses have been appointed as the HSTU student representative.

Besides announcing the committee role players, the speakers also discussed about the requirements of using open source software and shared about the activities of HSTU Open Source Network. They also motivated the participants to spread out the open source movement in the community. The new moderator HSTU Open Source Network emphasized the history of open source in her speech and talked about the safety of using open source software. She also believed that the new HSTU community will contribute to various social contexts in the days ahead. She added that the community would play a special role to meet the social responsibilities and it would help the involved students in their career. Being optimistic, she invited more students to come forward and be a part of the HSTU Open Source Network.