Projects

Projects using and developing Free/Open Source Software in Bangladesh

The Gonobidyalaya Project by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2006-08-16 08:44 PM

Except for a few private institutions in major cities, most high schools in Bangladesh follow a Bangladeshi government curriculum based on Microsoft Windows and the Microsoft Office Suite. For this reason, Bangladeshi internet learning centers and curriculum have adhered closely to this platform in Bangladeshi high school. The Gonobidyalaya schools, however, are not subject to this requirement. Given their unique requirements, they have opted to implement the Internet Learning Centers (ILCs) in these schools as the first entirely open source telecenters in Bangladesh.

The Ekushey Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-13 07:06 PM

A number of Projects to promote Bangla Computing.

Lekho by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-13 07:08 PM

(Lekho) is a "plain text" editor designed to take in phonetic input from a standard US keyboard and convert (transliterate) it online into bangla text. The text is stored as unicode ( UTF-8 ) and can be read by any unicode aware application. Lekho is NOT designed to be a WYSIWYG word processor (like MS Word).