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Ankur is a voluntary group working since 2002 on various FOSS related projects. Our main focus is localization, development and public awareness of FOSS in Bangla. (More...)
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Fedora 9 Release Party (BD)
Fedora 9 (Sulphur) is now available - http://get.fedoraproject.org/. It's our great pleasure to inform you that we, Ankur Bangladesh is going to arrange first ever Operating System Release party in Bangladesh on this occasion. The party is going to be a great fun included with "Live USB stick making station (min 1GB)", "Free Fedora 9 DVD distribution", snacks and talks on New features of Fedora 9. (More...)
[Wed, 14 May 2008 +0600]
Bangla spell checker for OpenOffice.org
Last month, we released Bangla Word List and Dictionary files for Hunspell, which is the spell checker for OpenOffice.org. As Bangla spell checking feature does not come by default with the OpenOffice.org yet, you have to install/integrate it manually. (More...)
[Sat, 02 Feb 2008 +0600]
MediaWiki Workshop
Ankur is going to arrange a day long workshop on MediaWiki. MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. (More...)
[Wed, 23 Jan 2008 +0600]
1st HackFest'08 @ Jahangirnagar University
The very first HackFest in Bangladesh was arranged on Friday (18th January, 2008) at Jahangirnagar University. It was arranged by Ankur ICT Development Foundation supported by JUOSN (Jahangirnagar University Open Source Network). (More...)
[Fri, 18 Jan 2008 +0600]
Bangla Word List and Dictionary files for GNU Aspell and Hunspell
Updated Bangla Word List and Dictionary files for GNU Aspell and Hunspell is released. Please check out the Download section.
[Sun, 06 Jan 2008 +0600]
Bangla Spell Checker for Mozilla
Ankur has released Bangla spell checker extension for Mozilla products {ie. Firefox and Thunderbird}. Currently it contains around 110k words, which will be enhanced in future. (More...)
[Fri, 04 Jan 2008 +0600]
OpenOffice.org Bangla Manual
As the number of OpenOffice.org users in Bangladesh increasing, people are already seeking for Bangla manual/guide. Currently we have organized translating "Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 2.x" guide jointly with BdOSN. (More...)
[Sun, 25 Nov 2007 +0600]
New Bangla GNU/Linux Distro Released
We are glad to inform you that, 2nd installable Bangla distro based on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has released. The codename of this release is Hoimonti (হৈমন্তী). The first one, Sraboni (শ্রাবণী), was based on Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). (More...)
[Sun, 28 Oct 2007 +0600]
Joomla Workshop
The Joomla workshop organized by Ankur and supported by i-Mesh multimedia was held successfully on 5th October 2007. The day long workshop started at 10am and ended at 4.30pm. The Workshop provided hands on training on Ubuntu server for Joomla hosting. (More...)
[Fri, 05 Oct 2007 +0600]
