The second Open Source Camp, organized by BdOSN completed.
The second Open Source Camp, organized by BdOSN ended on Saturday, 28th April
2007. Each day of the 2 day long camp started on 8:30 am and finished
after evening (a lunch break;) within). Around 40 teachers and students
were invited from various Universities of Bangladesh. Participant
showed great enthusiasm throughout the camp and enjoyed the sessions of
Munir Hasan. The camp held at IICT premises of Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology (BUET).
The participants were from AIUB, AUST, BUET, CU, DU, JU, MBSTU, RU, IUT
and RUET. Besides the university participants, two of five Bangla
Wikipedia administrators also joined the camp.
Participants had various hands-on sessions on: Ubuntu Installation, Network/Language Configuration, Pidgin IM configuration, GPRS/EDGE connectivity on Linux, SWOT analysis of OSS in Bangladesh. The most interesting part of the camp was debate on OSS vs Close Source and presentation of various topics by the participants. BdOSN distributed Ubuntu 7.04 in the camp along with the SOS wikiCD. The participant were very happy to get the BdOSN T-Shirts.