Welcome Jamil Bhai

Let me introduce Jamil bhai to all. He is the Managing Director of ASD and the main stakeholder of the project. With his long experience in the industry, he will be guiding us throughout the program. Welcome Jamil bhai!

I talked to Faisal. They are expected to be back to Sylhet within the last week of this month after the summer vacation. We will start afterwards.

Got details of the internees

I have just got an email from Faisal. It includes the details of the internees. The details of the fourth student will be posted soon.

Md. Faisal Hasan Khan
Email: faisalcssust@yahoo.com
Reg: 2002331115
Mobile: 01716415401
Mymensingh

Rajib Bonik
Email: rajibcssust@yahoo.com
Reg: 2002331013
Mobile: 01818822686, 01918285474
Feni

Sazibur Rahman
Email: sajibcssust@yahoo.com
Reg: 2002331085
Mobile: 01816324453
Barisal

Gulam Hafiz Khan
Email: ringkucsesust@gmail.com, ringku_csesust@yahoo.com
Reg: 2002331041
Mobile: 01816261385, 01717491352
Bagura


Thank you very much Faisal. Guys! Welcome aboard!

I have also invited my colleague to contribute here

Sajib, software engineer at Nilavo Technologies and ex-CSE-SUST, has been invited here.

Jamil bhai and Sajib bhai invited

I have just invited Sajib bhai and Jamil bhai to the mailing list and the blog.

New Mailing Lists

I have just created a new mailing list for the program. Here is the detail:

Group name:		intern-asd-2007
Group home page:		http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intern-asd-2007
Group email:		intern-asd-2007@yahoogroups.com

First post

I have just drafted a brief project description and send it to ASD for review. Here is the draft:

Advanced Software Development has its strong presence in the market of media archiving solutions since 2003. Since its inception, ASD is trying to improve its processes to meet clients' need more efficiently and effectively. In this continuation, ASD has undertaken a project to re-engineer its processes so that it will use its resources more effectively.

The media archiving solution has different automatic and manual processes. A daily schedule starts while 10/12 operators enter the office at 7 am. They take the newspapers and search the news items they are interested about. Then the news locations are marked. Then they get the pages scanned and start working on the electronic copies of the newspapers. They cut the news in rectangular blocks from the files and save them as separate images. Then, they tag them with the news title and customer info and upload them on the database.

The whole process takes almost 10/12 operators working for 8 hours a day. ASD likes to convert it into a software handled process which will reduce the number of operators. It requires OCR and pattern recognition modules along with standard software engineering solutions. The whole project will be done in two steps. Firstly, in Phase I, the algorithmic and software engineering issues should be solved. This phase will be mostly done on pen and paper. The second phase will contain most of the coding and testing part.