Hattisar, kathmandu (August 8, 2009) - The right months long Open Software Challenge Nepal (OSCN) 2009 is finally culminating on August 8, 2009 (Saturday) at Shanker Hotel, Lazimpat. OSCN 2009 was able to attract 83 projects out of which 12 have made it to the grand finale.
OSCN is hosted in the spirit of the open source movement and to promote a platform by rewarding the innovative software developers in Nepal. It is the first o its kind of a pioneering event conceptualized and hosted by D2Labs.org with the joint organization of D2hawkeye Services and Tribhuwan University, IOE, Pulchowk. OSCN has also been greatly supported by FOSS Nepal since Jan-05-2009. A total prize money of over 2 lakhs is being awarded today, where the first award winner of the event will receive a cash award of Rs. 1 lakh from Honorable Minister of Information and Communication, Mr. Shankar Pokharel. Similarly, Rs. 50, 000 and 25, 000 will be awarded to the second and third place winned accerdingly while the first in the designer project will be receiving Rs. 35000 separately. *Final Winners: First Project: LIVE Event Broadcasting using peer to peer Sumit Shrestha **Second Project: Real Time Face Tracking and recognition Abhishek Dutta Anjan Nepal Bibek Shrestha Lakesh Kansakar **Third Project: Java API for Grid Computing Manoj Kumar Shakya Akash Deep Shakya Saurabh Man Manandhar **First Project in Designer: iGallery *Buddha Bir Lama For more detail infromation about OSCN please visit http://d2labs.org/oscn *On behalf of Program Coordinator: Shankar Sharma * Regards Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" FOSS Nepal Community http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np akashakya at gmail dot com P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235 ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
