In a grand ceremony held at Shanker Hotel, Lazimpat, Nepal’s first Open Source Software competition concluded on 8th August 2009. The 8 months long Open Software Challenge Nepal (OSCN) 2009 was able to attract 83 projects out of which 12 had made it to the grand finale.
Leaping ahead with the spirit of the open source movement and promoting a platform by rewarding the innovative software developers in Nepal, OSCN was the first of its kind of a pioneering event conceptualized and hosted by D2Labs.org. OSCN was jointly organized by D2Hawkeye Services and Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk. OSCN had also been greatly supported by FOSS Nepal since Jan-05-2009.
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OSCN Training organized
Open Software Competition Nepal 2009 (OSCN) organized the first of its training sessions for its participants on March 7, 2009. The participants were divided into two groups and each group had three sessions. The trainings concerned OSS (Open Source Software) and OSCN overview, project management and a D2labs platform walk through.
The training kicked off with Bhaskar Bhattarai talking about problems in current software industry. The session focused on professional software development methodology….
OSCN2009 in the media
Kantipur TV News aired the information related to Open Software Challenge Nepal 2009. For your convenience, we have posted the excerpt below. Please check it. A talk show about ‘Open Software Challenge Nepal 2009’ was hosted in the one and only IT program CyberTime at Kantipur FM. OSCN team is sincerely thankful to RJ Shishya […]
Press Release: Open Software Challenge Nepal 2009
January 28, 2009 Open Software Challenge Nepal made a press release at Reporter’s Club today. Amidst presence of Nepalese journalists, details of Open Software Challenge Nepal 2009 were officially unveiled to the media. Following individuals were present in the press release. Prof. Dr. Shashidhar Ram Joshi – Head of Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, […]
Open Software Challenge Nepal 2009- A leap ahead
Back at the turn of the century, outsourcing was not much of a global phenomenon as it is today, and businesses and governments alike were skeptic of transferring bulk of their IT works to the other side of the world. Outsourcing has now flattened the world to a large extent, and is playing a pivotal […]