Nasir Khan – OKFN: LOCAL Bangladesh http://bd.okfn.org A local group of the open knowledge foundation Thu, 07 Jul 2016 11:17:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 113449452 Successfully held GNU 30 year Celebration Program http://bd.okfn.org/2013/10/01/successfully-held-gnu-30-year-celebration-program/ http://bd.okfn.org/2013/10/01/successfully-held-gnu-30-year-celebration-program/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:37:26 +0000 https://bd.okfn.org/?p=78 photo for blog

Successfully held GNU 30th anniversary with GNU-a-Day in Dhaka. Open Knowledge Foundation Network (OKFnBD) & Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) jointly arrange this program. Last Sunday this program held BdOSN office. In this program held an open discussion session and show movies on free software. Also discuss about Open Source Software, Open Knowledge, Open data etc. After complete this program a big cake and some snacks available for the participants. In this program Mr. Sawkat Hossain, MD of BD Venture Ltd, Mr. Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive, Bangladesh Ambassador of OKFN, Mr. Abu Sayed, President of Mukto Asor, Mr. Promi Naheed Chowdhury, Program Coordinator of BdOSN, Mr. Hasan Mahmud, General Secretary of Bondhushava National Committee, Mr. Rahitul Islam Ruwel, Palash Nandi, Ayub Sarkar, Sazib Mia, Member of OKFnBD also present.

]]> http://bd.okfn.org/2013/10/01/successfully-held-gnu-30-year-celebration-program/feed/ 0 78 Welcome to OKCon http://bd.okfn.org/2013/08/30/welcoke-to-okcon/ http://bd.okfn.org/2013/08/30/welcoke-to-okcon/#respond Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:58:03 +0000 https://bd.okfn.org/?p=54 Open Knowledge Foundation arrange Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) regularly. This year this conference held September 16-18 at Geneva, Switzerland. OKFn Bangladesh Ambassador Nurunnaby Chowdhury join this conference. Recently a sort video published about OKCon. Ambassador of some country & OKFn Community people talk this video. Nurunnaby Chowdhury also talk about OKCon. You may watch this video follow this link: http://vimeo.com/73378832

]]> http://bd.okfn.org/2013/08/30/welcoke-to-okcon/feed/ 0 54 Wikipedia workshop held at Rajshahi University http://bd.okfn.org/2013/08/22/wikipedia-workshop-held-at-rajshahi-university/ Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:22:53 +0000 https://bd.okfn.org/?p=41 To enriched the article of Bangla Wikipedia (http://bn.wikipedia.org) a workshop was held at the campus of Rajshahi University. Career Club of the University organized the workshop in collaboration with the Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and the Open Knowledge Foundation Network Bangladesh (OKFnBD). The workshop was held on Saturday at the University Dean Complex, where the resource person described on enrichment of the encyclopedia articles, images, data, and also add new methods are discussed. More then 250 students took part at the workshop.
At the end of the workshop the Vice-Chancellor of the Prof. Dr. Mijan Uddin gave a speech on the issue. He welcomed such types of initiatives which are being going to helpful for the students. Among other guest University Students Adviser Professor Sadequl Arefin, Proctor Tarikul Hasan, Public Relations Administrator Ilehas Hossain, Career Club president Syed Abdullah attend the workshop. At the workshop OKFn Bangladesh Ambassador Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive and Wikipedian Zahid Hossain Khan share the way of the enrichment of the Wikipedia and the usages of the Open Source Sotware.
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