About Us

From Ankur

We are working toward supporting Bangla(Bengali) language on GNU/Linux operating system. However, most of our projects are focused on XFree86.org/X.org's Xserver. Some of our projects are in fact platform independent and adds supports of other operating systems.

History

Initially, Ankur started as the bengalinux-core mailing list. This later worked as the nucleus for forming Ankur.

Taneem Ahmed of Bangladesh, the founder of Ankur, was developing and maintaining the http://www.BengaLinux.Org website - a one stop mall for Unix based Bangla Free Software. He was also the author of the bn_BD locale for the GNU C library. This established his identity as major figure in the Bangla open source community. In October 2002, he launched the bengalinux-core mailing list.

This list became a focus of Bangla related Open Source enthusiasts. In January, 2003, Taneem Ahmed announced the GNOME Bangla Translation Project and began recruiting for the project. The recruitment call was taken seriously and the project began to expand. After some discussion on a group name of discussion, 'Ankur', proposed by Kaushik Ghosh. On 3 March, 2003, the name Ankur was officially adopted.