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Sunday, September 16, 2007

[chottala.com] Celebrating Software Freedom Day 2007

Celebrating Software Freedom Day 2007

Bangladesh Open Source Network celebrates Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2007 and continues its celebration for the week. As part of its weeklong programme, BdOSN's members arranged different programmes in different parts of the country. On 13th September, BdOSN lunched its media campaign through online national daily Bdnews24.com. On the same day, a screening of the documentary "The Code Breakers" by BBC was also arranged at BdOSN office. On 14th, the largest National Daily, Prothom Alo published an article on SFD. Later on the same day Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology Open Source Network organized UBUNTU InstaFest at their campus. 25 students converted to Ubuntu computing environment and one of the labs was also transferred to Linux environment.

On 15th, the SFD began with an appeal by BdOSN secretary, Munir Hasan through Electronic Media to every fellow countryman to use open source software to uphold the freedom of software.

In collaboration with I-Mesh multimedia, BdOSN volunteers organized an Open Day at the centre. Students from different schools and colleges enjoyed and learnt about different Open Source Software. They also learnt about the open world of the Wikipedia. In Sylhet, the programme continued for second day with a seminar. BdOSN and its member networks will continue their celebration till 22nd of this month. The rest of the programme includes Insta Fest, Open House, Rally and a wikicamp.
The other celebration news will be published in this site as soon as they are available.



--by BPR
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Dhaka, Sylhet, September 15, 2007

 


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Abu Mohammad Omar Shehab Uddin Ayub
(আবু মোহাম্মদ ওমর শেহাবউদ্দীন আইয়ুব )
Software Engineer
Nilavo Technologies

Banani, Dhaka
&
Bangladesh Open Source Network, Dhaka



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