Theoretical study and practical work have so many difference. Students learn theoretically in their educational institute. but what about the practical? There are many institutes teach hands-on computer programming but these courses are payable. That's the main reason behind the workshop Bangladesh Open Source Network(BdOSN) organizes. We organize workshop on Dig Data, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming etc.
BdOSN career talk is a one-day open seminar for everyone. We started it on 2016. There was 4 BdOSN career talk last year 2016. All the speakers talk on the seminar are those who work on ICT. They share their experience on ICT career. All the participants ask questions to the speaker and they answer all the questions. Participants of the seminar get a clear concept about ICT career.
PILOT is Placement Internship Learning dOing Training. What we do is who finished their study or about to finish graduation we help them to find an institution for the internship. If any student goes and ask for doing internship he won't be noticed but if any organization do that on the half of the student it will be more noticeable. That's what we do. We place students for internship and they learn by doing.
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National High School Programming Contest 2017 is about to start after the success of 2015 and 2016. It will be bigger in scale this year having Children Programming Festival and National Girls Programming Contest with it. Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) will lead the program and in assistance of the Department of Information and Communication Technology.
On 30 January, ICT Division and Bangladesh Open Source Network signed MoU at the ICT Division conference room. The additional secretary of the ICT Division Mr. Harunur Rashid and BdOSN Vice President and Head of the Department of Dhaka University of Engineering Robotics and Mechatronics Ms. Lafifa Jamal and Mr. Munir Hasan, the Joint Secretary of BdOSN signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organizations.
In addition to 16 universities like the previous years, there will be 3 sub-districts for the regional contest. The winners of national contest will participate at the Bangladesh Informatics Olympiad and be selected for the for The International Informatics Olympiad of Bangladesh.
The President of Bangladesh Informatics Olympiad Committee Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said "As National High School Programming Contest and Informatics Olympiad are linked now, the selection for Informatics Olympiad will be more effective. Besides, students from high school and college will be more interested in computer programming".
Deputy Secretary Begum Mahbuba Panna of the Department of ICT, Md Kamruzzaman, BdOSn General Secretary Munir Hasan and Programme Officer Sharmin Kabir and Achila Nila, Founder of Woman in Digital were present at the MoU signing ceremony.
The dates and venue will be shared with all soon.
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National High School Programming Contest 2017 is going to be started very soon. There was a residential training camp for mentors of NHSPC 2017 this month. The two days-long residential training camp started on 5th of January 2017. Mentors from all over the Bangladesh attended this camp. The motivation of this camp was to train the participants how to set problems for programming contest and teaching them how to train the students participants for NHSPC.
The residential training camp started at 10am in the morning at Daffodil International University, Dhaka. Hasnain Heickal (Jami), lecturer at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka coordinated Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) to organize the camp. There was a number of 40 mentors attended the camp.
At first, Mr. Jami shared how did they manage NHSPC 2016 and they planned to change the management system for this year. He shared that this year there will be 8 coordinators for setting the contest problem and each coordinator will have 4-6 mentors under him. As planned, he divided the mentors into 8 groups. After that, he explained how to set problems and how harder problems will be in NHSPC.
Md. Shiplu Hawlader, lecturer at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka discussed how to set hard problems. In the following day, the mentors set some problems and collaboratively turn the curtain of the mentors training camp for NHSPC 2017.
The ICT division of Bangladesh government is supporting BdOSN in orgization of NHSPC 2017.
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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.
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#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 27th of December 2016 and ended on the 29th.
The topics covered in these 3 days camp are below:
- Introduction to programming
- Girls in Programming
- Biography of Grace Hoper
- Biography of 3/4 female
- entrepreneurs in software
- Industry
- Make some fun with brain
- storming problems (if possible)
- Show some statistics regarding
- Girls participation in programming
- Collect some points raised by
- Conduct an interactive session
- (question and answer)
- Quick Recap of C
- Control Structure( ifelse, loop, switch)
- Function
- Array (Implementation)
- String (basic operation)
- Brainstorming Task
- Solve at least 2 interesting problems.
- Sorting Algorithm
- Implementation of a sorting algorithm
- Searching Algorithm
- Implementation of a searching Algorithm
- STL
- DP
- 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.
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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:
| Sl. No | Name | Role |
| 1 | Helal Uddin Patwary | Secretary |
| 2 | Nazmul Hasan | Joint Secretary |
| 3 | M.A. Monyeem | Member |
| 4 | Asif Ahmed | Member |
| 5 | Shahriar Binte Ali Mouli | Member |
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.