Bangladesh Open Source Network (www.bdosn.org) in association with CSE Society and SUST OSN pleased to announced that a two days Code Sprint will be organized at CSE Dept, SUST on 8-9 August, 2008.
A sprint is a time-boxed period of software development focused on a given list of goals but with variable scope. Sprints have become popular events among some Open Source projects. The First BdOSN Code Sprint aims to develop 5 Open Source Projects in the Sprint. There will be 5 teams, each leading by a Team leader and will have 5 members in the team which comprises software professionals and computer science students. All participants will receive a Certificate of
Accomplishment of successful completion of a Sprint. The Sprint will be at end with a team presentation of the software. Besides the Sprint, there will be a few side line talks on different technology issues. There will be 4 such talk in two days. The talks will be open for all students.
Objectives:
· Provide a platform for the Open Source programmers across the country so that they meet in person, socialize, and start to communicate more effectively when working together remotely.
· Produce some software that will be useful for the society and people can use it legally.
· Encourage students to participate in Open Source projects.
· Introducing the students with the real life project and
· Developing interaction between the academia and the industry.