Open Source Bangladesh http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org Promoting Open Source in Bangladesh Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:23:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Java programming tutorial 1: How to start “Hello World” program in Java http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/java-programming-tutorial-1-how-to-start-%e2%80%9chello-world%e2%80%9d-program-in-java.html http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/java-programming-tutorial-1-how-to-start-%e2%80%9chello-world%e2%80%9d-program-in-java.html#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:02:15 +0000 admin http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/?p=192 Java programming tutorial 1: How to start “Hello World” program in Java

In this tutorial, you will get some fundamental idea how to begin your programming in java. However, this tutorial is written for newbie’s. They need to know how to start object oriented programming in Windows Platform.

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This is a details tutorial about java programming. At least, any java programmer needs those skills to develop an application in java platform. However, I didn’t write this tutorial. I’d like to share this tutorial with you. My objective is to help the newbie’s programmer to develop your programming skill.

]]> http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/fundamental-concept-for-java-programming.html/feed 0 WordPress Tutorial for Beginners http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/wordpress-tutorial-for-beginners.html http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/wordpress-tutorial-for-beginners.html#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:13:57 +0000 admin http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/?p=176 wordpress tutorialOpen Source Bangladesh brings free WordPress video tutorials for beginners/ newbie’s.This WordPress  video tutorial was created by Md. Monzur Morshed and Technical help by Md. Habibur Rahman.

If you plan to start your own blog website, the best choice for a blog application would be WordPress. WordPress is an Open Source blog tool, which offers a rich set of blog features as well as a large supporting community. If you have not activated your blog website yet, please visit our blog hosting package, where you get the best service for starting a blog site.

WordPress has intuitive administration, which anyone can handle. In WordPress you will be able to compose a post and publish it on your website with just one click! With WordPress you can easily customize the look of your website for there are lots of free WordPress themes available on the Net.

  • Learn how to install WordPress
  • WordPress themes
  • WordPress plugins
  • Creating a Category
  • Comments in WordPress

Download: part1 || part2 || part3 || part4

]]> http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/wordpress-tutorial-for-beginners.html/feed 2 Open Source Movement vs. Free Software http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/open-source-movement-vs-free-software.html http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/open-source-movement-vs-free-software.html#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:11:00 +0000 admin http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/?p=128 The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software should be open source is a practical question, not an ethical one. As one person put it, “Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.” For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is a social problem and free software is the solution.

From ‘RevolutionOS, the Linux story’, a documentary about Linux and Open Source.

]]> http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/open-source-movement-vs-free-software.html/feed 0 Interview with Linus Torvalds http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/interview-with-linus-torvalds.html http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/interview-with-linus-torvalds.html#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:09:20 +0000 admin http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/?p=115 Linus Torvalds is the world’s most famous computer programmer. Linus Torvalds is the founder and coordinator of Linux, the Unix-like operating system that is beginning to revolutionize the computer industry and possibly much else as well. His is truly one of the great tales in the history of the computers.

An interview with Linus Torvalds on CNN, this is from 2000 and Andlinux recorded it from a vhs tape.

]]> http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/interview-with-linus-torvalds.html/feed 0 What is free software by Richard Stallman http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/what-is-free-software-by-richard-stallman.html http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/what-is-free-software-by-richard-stallman.html#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:20:04 +0000 admin http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/?p=93 Richard Stallman is the president and founder of the Free Software Foundation.Richard Stallman defines what free software is.

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Producer: Edward Sargent

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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The Open Source world is rich with opportunities: Working with people of all cultures from all over the world.

Production Company: Mediaarchives.com

Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales

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]]> http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/women-in-open-source.html/feed 0 Open Source Definition http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/open-source-definition.html http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/open-source-definition.html#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:07:48 +0000 admin http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/?p=78 The Open Source Definition is used by the Open Source Initiative to determine whether or not a software license can be considered open source.The definition was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens.

Open Source Software is defined by its attached license guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute the software.

Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative. Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI’s Open Source Definition.

To summarize, the Definition model of distribution terms require that:

Free Redistribution

  • No restrictions are placed on parties from selling of giving away the software.

Source Code Availability

  • The software must include source code and must also allow for binary distributions when there is a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code.

Derived Works

  • Modifications and derived works must be allowed, and must be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

Integrity of the Authors Source Code

  • The distribution of modified source code must be allowed although restrictions to ensure the possibility to distinguish the original source code from the derived works are tolerated. For example, the possibility of using different software names.

No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

  • The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

  • The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Distribution of License

  • The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.

License Must Not Be Specific to a Product

  • The rights given by the license must not be different for the original distribution and any other one even when it takes place in a totally different context.

License Must Not Contaminate Other Software

  • The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.

License Must Be Technology-Neutral

  • No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
]]> http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/open-source-definition.html/feed 0 Bruce Perens : The first creator of Open Source Definition http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/bruce-perens-the-first-creator-of-open-source-definition.html http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/bruce-perens-the-first-creator-of-open-source-definition.html#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:09:32 +0000 admin http://www.opensourcebangladesh.org/?p=70

Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and advocate in the open source community. He created the Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric S. Raymond.

In 2005, Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the invitation of the United Nations Development Program. He has appeared before national legislatures and is often quoted in the press, advocating for open source and the reform of national and international technology policy.

Perens is also a ham, with callsign K6BP. He is well known in the amateur radio community for his efforts towards open radio communications standards.

Viewpoint

Perens poses Open Source as a means of marketing the free software philosophy of Richard Stallman to business people who are more concerned with profit than freedom, and states that open source and free software are only two ways of talking about the same phenomenon.

This differs from Stallman and Raymond. Perens postulates an economic theory for business use of Open Source in his paper The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source and his speech Innovation Goes Public.

This differs from Raymond’s theory in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which having been written before there was much business involvement in open source, explains open source as a consequence of programmer motivation and leisure.

Creation of the Open Source Definition

The Open Source Definition was first created by Perens as the Debian Free Software Guidelines, itself part of the Debian Social Contract. Perens proposed a draft of the Debian Social Contract to the Debian developers on the debian-private mailing list early in June, 1997.

Debian developers contributed discussion and changes for the rest of the month while Perens edited, and the completed document was then announced as Debian project policy. On February 3, 1998, a group of people met at VA Linux Systems (without Perens) to discuss the promotion of Free Software to business from pragmatic terms, rather than the moral terms preferred by Richard Stallman.

Christine Petersen of the nanotechnology organization Foresight Institute was present because Foresight took an early interest in Free Software, and Petersen suggested the term “Open Source”. The next day, Eric Raymond recruited Perens to work with him on the formation of Open Source. Perens modified his Debian document into the Open Source Definition by removing Debian references and replacing them with “Open Source”.

The original announcement of the Open Source Definition was made on February 9, 1998 on Slashdot and elsewhere; the definition was given in Linux Gazette on February 10, 1998.

Source: Wikipedia

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