Hi everyone.How r u? We from BUET want to add something about our future activities in the calender. But how we can add? Plz answer.

At 4:00 we met at Ahsan Ullah Hall (BUET).Adnan vai,Faysal vai,Hasan vai,Shahed vai,Shamim vai were there.The members from HoV-BUET,HoV-IBA,HoV-BRACU joined the meeting.Some of the members could not attend the meeting due to their classes.

We shared our experiences there.The obstacles and the ways to overcome were discussed.

We decided to do some tasks.Such as:
1. HoV-IBA and HoV-BRACU would make a guideline about i-school.
2. HoV-BUET would make guideline about OCEP.
3. The three chapters would meet monthly.

The next meeting would be held at BRAC University after 15th January.

Hi all

The day before yesterday I along with Adnan Vai, Jyoti had a brief tele conference with some Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students. They seemed very much enthusiastic about our program. We have stated our condition and progress to them. We also expressed our expectation and objectives with them. Finally we set some target to achieve a new charter under the umbrella of HoV. We are continuously keeping connection with them. I hope it would be another achievement for us.

We are going to have an official cell phone no for HoV_BUET chapter. Soon I’ll declare that. Stay Tuned.

Bappi

BUET06

I can write in the blog now……..thanks ADNAN VAI.

BUET team is going to officially open second CLC (Computer Learning Centre) 17th December. Already 5 computers has been set up on that location. All are operating nicely. 4 members of BUET team consisting of Jyoti, Tazin, Bijoy & Shuvo stayed there for three days to train the teachers of that school a month ago. The school routine has been revised according to our plan and made room for 3 classes per week. 2 batches comprises of 10 boys and 10 girls has been selected by their merit list.

So now it seems everything is quite satisfactory and we are ready to move on. I wish tomorrow we will have another nice feather to wear on. Definitely the pictures & tales of tomorrow will be updated at this blog..So stay tuned. Keep in touch.

Today we (BUET team) had 2nd meeting with Adnan vai at 12.00pm. But unfortunately i could not attend to the meeting at the right time due to my personal work. i was out of BUET so i could’t….But when reached, the meeting was finished. I felt so ashamed . Normally 10 ,15 or 20 mins later meeting starts than the given time. so we late sometimes intentionally or not .But we saw Adnan vai was exact time.  I can remember when i was in Notre Dame College i was so punctual but now what happens(!)….

Whatever ,then Adnan vai showed how be a member of this blog & wiki etc. He told us ”Before giving computers or teaching about computers all you should know thoroughly  about what we are going to give them and what we want  that they should know “.

He also emphasized “our job should not take a survey before opening a computer center & then open a computer center but we must communicate with the center at least after one week or two to know whether computer is running or not or students feel how /is there any problem? etc.”.

Next 25th December we will go to Comilla (Joynagar) to inaugurate Joynagar center. All of we egarly waiting and preparing  us for the program.

Sohag(07)

BUET

On Dec 3, Shoishob, Bappi and Jyoti went to visit the OSCEP Center at Mukundopur, and see how things were going.

The instructor, Mr. Syful, has covered a lot of material, although there are some hardware issues. They spent some time talking to the students and the teachers about how the program is being run, and the future. We anticipate teachers of the schools taking up more of the teaching soon, assisted by peer educators from this graduating class.

About a week ago, I had a serendipitous encounter with Sailesh, a grad student at Fletcher, and it turns out he and his wife, Ishani, were working on a very similar idea in a school in West Bengal, where they set up one center with a couple of computers that ran Ubuntu. They had also installed a local copy of a ’sanitised’ Schools-Wikipedia, which was good to learn about, and something we will consider for the next iteration of the ISO.

Today, Adnan bhai and I met up with them, as well as Brian, who spent a year teaching in West Bengal and was also a computer instructor, and over chaa and samosas, had a great conversation that involved everything from where things are now to where we can go next. I guess the next step is to figure out how to combine forces, and get thing rolling in both Bengals!

After today’s conference call, it seems that to launch the 1st OCEP center is just an elapse of next 2 weeks……….It’s more than 1 year ago, I can still remember how Faisal vai and me was scratching the idea of computer centers in Bangladesh, then we formed a team in BUET. I believe Boston group started thinking on it long long ago….. Initially in Bangladesh side, we did not have much idea about how would be the Computer Centers, but we were brainstorming on it. Actually our initial ideas in Bangladesh side were somewhat different from the actual OCEP center that we are going to launch but the goal is same.

However, after much ups and downs we are finally going to launch our long awaited 1st OCEP center by this month. I am sure this is just a beginning of a new era, sky is the limit here. I am excited to be a part of this venture.

The BUET team has decided to start its first pilot center at Mukundapur, Comilla. We’re meeting over phone tonight at 12:00a EDT to discuss specifics.