Lazimpat, Kathmandu
August 8, 2009
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.

Top 10 Software projects & Top 2 Design projects that have been seleceted for the final round of OSCN 2009.

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….

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, Institute of [...]

Heck it is cheap.
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