Ubntu 11.10 Release party, Bangladesh, 28-10-11

After a long waiting It really happens. I was so worried about the party. After all the party was full of Ubuntu lovers and maximum is new users, which I wanted to do.

Party was started around 3:45 PM in the selected location, coz the location was a open place so we have to look after a suitable place where we can sit. After searching We find a place and put our banner there and start to gather one by one it takes about 1 hour to gather all in the place. In that time percipients where talking with each other after a little introduction of every one. There were about 62 participants.

Around 5 PM the cake was open then every one become busy to take picture of the cake. Then two most junior participants who read in class 9 aged around 15 and Shariar Tarik from Ubuntu Bangladesh LoCo team cut the cake then it was served among the participants, though it was self service. There was some snacks and soft drink available in the party as refreshment.

Every body enjoy the party very much and most of them where new faces to us. After all it was full of fun.

Picture of the cake

Cake,Ubuntu 11.10 Release Party

Picture of the banner

Banner, Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Release Party, Bangladesh

Some More Picture Ubuntu 11.10 Release Party, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mozilla Release party-2011, Dhaka, 27th September

How I was There
As a OSS and it’s movement lover, Mozilla Firefox one of my favorite OSS and web browser. Along with Firefox I also use Thunderbird. I have never join any Mozilla release party before. By the help of Mashkawat Ahsan I have come to know about Mozilla ReMo project. From him I also got the invitation of Mozilla Release party-2011, Dhaka, 27th September.

At the Event

I was already late for the party, but my luck is good because the location was not so far from my house. I reached the place about 3:15 PM. The program was schedule to start at 3:30 PM, so I was not so late. After some moment the program started. There was about 50 participants. First the anchor from the volunteer start the program, after that start to talk about OSS, but the presentation was on Microsoft windows and Microsoft Office, which hurt me so much. After that Mashkawat Ahsan start to show us some video clips of Mozilla, those where interesting. Then he discuss about how a Firefox version launch after a lot a testing from the step of Nightly,Aurora and release. He also discuss about other thing which I miss. Then the volunteer serve us refreshment. Mean while I was busy to configure some one fresh install Ubuntu. Then a presentation was held about web security and another one was held on how to do Open Source development in a group which was also in windows. After that we enjoy a chocolate cake, which was delicious.

My Experience

I have learned some thing about Mozilla, OSS development, how to contribute to Mozilla and the OSS community, how to arrange program. I was gifted a T-Shirt for winning a quiz and also some other kit.

Lacking that I fell

OSS movement should be spread into human by the use of open source software. But in that program they have use a propitiatory platform, I think that was bad choice after all. Another thing that was miss is “Open Discussion Session“. One more thing that was lack before the program was sharing this event with our local community. If they invite our local community a little more there may be more participant.

Beside all those lacking the program was fine and good enough to share the knowledge and movement of Mozilla and OSS. I am looking forward for more program like this.

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MD Ashickur Rahman Noor

Volunteer, FOSS Bangladesh