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Welcome to Ankur.Org.BD!Ankur ICT Development Foundation (AIDF) is a non-profitable organization that envisions Bangladesh - as a country in which widespread access to high quality education, information, communication and technology lead to a more developed society. The mission of the organization is to eliminate the linguistic, economic and social barriers to the widespread use of Information & Communication Technology in Bangladesh. (More...) | ||
New Verson of Bangla Spell Checker released  Recently Ankur ICT Development Foundation released Bangla manuals for Bangla localized computer applications. With this manuals Recently Ankur ICT Development Foundation released new version [v0.04] of unicode supported Bangla spell checker add-on for Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and OpenOffice.org. In this version Ankur include more than 300,000 Bangla words where previous one [v0.02] had only 100,000 words. So the new spell checker is now able to work with better accuracy. Anyone can download this new spell check add-on from the download Section of Ankur Website. [Tue, 9 Feb 2010 +0530] Bangla Manuals for Bangla localized applications released  Recently Ankur ICT Development Foundation released Bangla manuals for Bangla localized computer applications. With this manuals any one who knows just Bangla can learn Bangla localized applications including OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin, VLC Media Player. Ankur is very optimistic about the prospect of Open Source Software in Bangladesh. They conduct some research works on general usage of computer applications and try to identify the required features and suitable solutions for Bangladesh. According to these identifications Ankur made some localize applications and their manuals which are ready to distribute. Ankur also released a translation glossary that will help to translate others applications as well. Any one can download these Bangla applications, their manuals and the translation glossary from Ankur's website www.ankur.org.bd. Also you can collect Ankur's products from Ankur's Stall (Stall No. E4) at BASIS Softexpo 2010 from 10-14th February. Ankur cordially invites you to visit the BASIS Softexpo. [Tue, 9 Feb 2010 +0530] Mozilla Bangla Thunderbird 3.0 released On 8th December 2009 Mozilla Foundation has released new version of open source based email client “Thunderbird 3.0”. Its all yours. New Thunderbird is faster, flexible and more secure. For simplification in code, stability, web compatibility and better performance the version has been changed in main architecture. Some new features has been added, among them are Tab Based Email Search, Advance Email Search and Filtering, Activity Manager, New Add-ones Manager, New Message Summary View. Moreover it has Advanced Security and Protection System. With contributions of Ankur, Thunderbird 3.0 has released in Bangla. So Thunderbird can be used in Bangla with all its functionalities. Anyone can download and use this new version without any cost. The download link is http://www.mozillamessaging.com/bn-BD/. For any query, feedback or suggestion you can email at feedback@ankur.org.bd. [Wed, 9 Dec 2009 +0530] WordForge presented in FOSS.in/2009, Bangalore Muhammad Rezwan Shahid rafi the in-house Ankur Developer presented this year in FOSS.in at Bangalore. He presented the WordForge localization editor in the Main talk session on 4th December 2009. It was a nice presentation with a welcoming audience; experts from different language appreciated WordForg and it's feature over other localization editors. Some of them downloaded and started testing the beta 0.7; and promised to send us feedback. [Fri, 4 Dec 2009 +0530] Bangla localized Firefox 3.5 release party We have fully localized the Mozilla Firefox (version 3.5) into Bangla(Bangladesh), along with this we have developed a Bangla Spell Checker consist of 100,000 unique words. To celebrate this occasion, Ankur is arranging a release party supported by Mozilla foundation with swags and Presidency University with a place to host the party. There will be a lightening talk on Firefox 3.5 features and demonstration of Bangla spell checker. The party is open; join us to get Mozilla swags. Party details
[Thu, 29 Oct 2009 +0700] Bangla OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 released It is our pleasure to inform you that Bangla OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 has been released, which is based on the original source code of OpenOffice.org 3.1.x. OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. (More...) [Thu, 17 Sep 2009 +0600] 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 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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