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Welcome to the Ankur.Org.BD Site!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...) | ||
Workshop on “Using the ICT in Education Toolkit for policymakers, Planners and Practitioners” Inaugurated On 27th April, 2009 Minister Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Primary and Mass Education inaugurated a four days long workshop on “Using the ICT in Education Toolkit for policymakers, Planners and Practitioners” at BANBEIS, Palassy, Dhaka jointly organized by BANBEIS, UNDP and UNESCO in collaboration with Spanish Corporation and Ankur ICT Development Foundation (AIDF). (More...) [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 +0600] Pidgin, the universal Instant Messenger client released with 100% Bangla Translation Pidgin 2.5.3 is released with 100% Bangla translation, done by us. So from now on you can use Pidgin fully with Bangla interface. You can check some screen shots from our gallery. Hope the translation will be better in future releases. Please send us your valuable suggestions at feedback@ankur.org.bd. [Mon, 22 Dec 2008 +0600]
We have done some R&D on MySQL database server and made a technical how-to document. Currently we are able to sort Bangla texts according to Bangla academy's general and dictionary based rules. Please check the document, try it yourself and let us know your feedback at feedback@ankur.org.bd. [Mon, 08 Dec 2008 +0600]
Ankur won the prestigious "Manthan Award 2008" in E-Localisation Category for it's Ubuntu Based Bangla Localised GNU/Linux Distribution "Hoimonti/হৈমন্তী". Total 284 nominations were submitted and 33 won in 8 categories. There were 14 submissions for E-localisation, only 3 won including Hoimonti. (More...) [Sun, 19 Oct 2008 +0600]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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] See News Archive for more News. |
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