CALL FOR BDPASS SPONSORS

You or your company can be a founding sponsor for first Bangladeshi open World Wide SQL Server Professionals (BDPASS) User Group. To find out how be one of the founding body side by side with Microsoft, e2D Services, International PASS and ICNEWS-BD please contact support@bdpass.org

 

Founding members and companies will enjoy being part of national and international executive consortium sponsored by BDPASS, they can also participate in a joint marketing venture with a US based company.

 

CALL FOR OPERATING OFFICERS

If you would like to be a part of an international professional associations operating body, please apply with your portfolio at support@bdpass.org

 

You will be eligible for PASS yearly international leadership conference held in USA for one week every year. Full sponsorship will be provided by PASS and BDPASS.

 

CALL FOR NATIONAL PRESENTERS

Would you like to be Microsoft MVP? Would you like to join us in yearly international PASS conference with your technical talent fully paid and sponsored by PASS and e2D Services INC. Please join in our BDPASS speakers’ forum with your SQL Server and .NET competency. Please contact support@bdpass.org

 

         

 

 

SLOGAN

Be Wireless, be Smart, Anywhere Anytime

 

PROJECT NAME: SMART SERVICE FOR MASS [SSM]

First Open Source Software Development Project in Wireless Communication by Bangladeshi Software Development Community.

 

SPONSORED BY

e2D Consulting Services, Microsoft Bangladesh, PASS USA, and ICNEWS-BD community.

 

Contestants should be

v       Wireless companies

v       Software development companies

v       IT and Business students with technical portfolio.

Award

Two categories

a.       Companies

b.       Students

Depending on project’s sophistication student projects could be eligible for company awards.

Winning project segments will be selected for public presentation.

 

Award Detail for Companies

v       First Award + Prize Money [8,000 TK]

v       Second Award + Prize Money [4000 TK]

v       Third Award + Prize Money [1500 TK]

v       Possible selection for RFP submittal for up to 10K USD Software Development project 

Award for Students

v       First [2000 TK]

v       Second [1500 TK]

v       Third prize [1000 TK]

v       Possible selection for several software development projects worth 100 USD to 1000 USD

 

DEFINITION

SSM or Smart Service for MASS is a concept of open source software development project that is based on using mobile SMS service. This will further empower the versatile application of SMS services in our daily life so that our general population can have access to essential information whenever they need it most.

 

 

EXAMPLE

Some Practical Usefulness

1.        Chokku mia has come to a Rajshahi hut to sell his eggplants, but he is not sure what should be his market price?

-- So he picks up his Grameen cell makes an SMS text “Begun Rajshahi 119” press send.

-- In about 30 seconds he receives an SMS back average Begun selling price in Rajshahi is 8 TK/per KG

2.        Tungi parar Raju mia has a huge chest pain; he wants to go to a doctor who is specialized in heart disease?

-- So he picks his BanglaLinked cell phone and makes an SMS text “book betha dactar tungipara 119”.

-- In about 30 seconds he receives an SMS back Dr. Dhiren Ray is a heart specialist in his area and 80% of his patients has given him good rating.

3.        A tourist in Dhaka needs a taxi. Part of his orientation in the conference he is attending mentioned he could use a rental cell phone from hotel and do SMS to get taxi.

4.        John Hopkins from USA would like to have his web portal done in a very cost effective manner

-- He did Google “low cost custom web development”

-- He finds on top of Google http://www.BDSourcing.org

-- He finds 100’s of projects similar to his project and the web sites that were completed by Bangladeshi web development companies on the portfolio of the website

-- He sees an SMS form interface to send a mini project description to check how much it will cost him.

-- He sends an online SMS and goes to bed at 8.00 PM CST Thursday, next morning at 7.30 AM in his cell phone he finds an SMS saying there the 3 demo and a 3 BIDS are waiting for his project at URL: http://yourdemo.com/JohnH please provide your permission to call your cell phone to the company you liked most with demo.

5.        Moni in Dhaka is really busy with his work today but Bangladesh is playing a critical cricket game overseas that he would like to know the status of the game every time a wicket has fall.

-- He makes a SMS to his Dejuce cell phone “Cricket Status BD per wicket 1234”

-- Every time whenever there was a wicket fall he got his text MSGS through out the whole day

Think…

a.   How a wireless communication device could be the most dependable knowledge bank for general population?

b.   How wireless communication could give us equal competitive advantage like a developed country?

c.   What could be a simple project that will make immediate and significant impact in the society?

d.   How a simple wireless solution could create massive jobs for students and entrepreneurs all   across the country?

e.   What technologies should we use for this?

f.    What are our current business constraints to implement them and how to overcome it?

g.   Can you create a prototype?

Judgment Category

a. End to end architectural walkthrough      

b. Closest possible working prototype [Partial is acceptable]

c. Most complete solution proposal

a.        Technical components [front end, middleware and back-end solutions]

b.        Business components [Key strategic, marketing, and financial]

c.        World class standard components [ISO, RUP, CMM]

d. Maximum immediate solution that directly addresses unemployment problem for college, university students and entrepreneurs

 

 

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