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OKFnBD Celebrate Education Freedom Day 2014

rahitulislam — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:30:20 +0000

On the third Saturday of January, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and the Open Knowledge Foundation Network (OKFN) jointly organized program. Education Freedom Day 2014 celebrated in Bangladesh as well as in different countries of the world. Digital Freedom Foundation declares the third Saturday of the January as EFD. On the third Saturday of January, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and the Open Knowledge Foundation Network (OKFN) Bangladesh jointly organized program. At the event, the guests are discussing on free educational software and materials, which can easily reach to all.
This year’s main aim of the day was “Availability of education related software and open education components”. The goal of the day is the use of technology in education is a fundamental right for everyone. For the achievement of the goal, the consortium encourages distribution and creation of free software, free textbooks, and free educational materials. This program held at the head office of Bangladesh Open source Network. General Secretary of BdOSN Mr. Munir Hasan announce that, for encourage of the open education BDOSN and Shikkhok.com jointly started new course.
OKFN Bangladesh Ambassador and Bengali Wikipedia administrator Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive articulate that, If education related websites and software are available for all, the overall quality of the education will be raised. Mukto Asar’s president Abu Sayed, Assistant coordinator of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee Ayubur Rahman, Higher Education Department official Ariful Islam, Engineer Abu Taher , a central member of OKFN Bangladesh Rahitul Islam Ruwel, Rafat Jamil, Palash Nandy, Musa Kajim Naim and volunteers of BdOSN and OKFN attended the program. After the program, at the open discussion session the participants are talked about the importance of education related software distribution and creation. A documentary also aired at the event. Details of EFD are searched at www.educationfreedomday.org

Successfully held GNU 30 year Celebration Program

Nasir Khan — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:37:26 +0000

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.

OKFnBD Celebrate Software Freedom day

Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:27:25 +0000

Every year the third Saturday in the month of September celebrated Software Freedom Day (SFD) around the world. The day was celebrated in existence for the past few years .

It was held by the Free SFD last 21 September. This year SFD 2013 celebrate Open Knowledge Foundation Network Bangladesh (OKFnBD). After that a Seminar held about Open Source, Open Knowledge. This program supported by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN). On this program the cake is cut at FRIPED auditorium. After that the philosophy of free software are discussed by Munir Hasan, General secretary of BdOSN. In this program Enayet Hossain Rajib, Asst. General Secretary of BdOSN, Nasir Khan Saikat, Administrator of Bengali Wikipedia, Baizid Bhyiyan Juwel, Coordinator of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee, Badol Khan, IT Journalist, Kawsar Uddin, Executive Member of Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum, Promi Naheed, Program Coordinator of BdOSN, Rahitul Islam Ruwel, Member Volunteer of OKFnBD also presesnt.

Wikipedia workshop held at Rajshahi University

Nasir Khan — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:22:53 +0000

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.