2007 year roundup of SQABD

Here is the 2007 year roundup of SQABD recently published. Please feel free to add comment with your suggestion or advice - cause it could add value to this community :)

Here are some noteworthy activities of SQABD during 2007:

1. SQABD had its' 11th roundtable on Career in SQA and Testing
2. SQABD's 3 Year Anniversary Celebration - sponsored by Ardites
3. SQABD had its' 12th roundtable meeting with SkypeCast facilities - sponsored by DSi. [Audio will be published soon]

4. SQABD started Testing Consultancy by consulting SECL Testers.
5. 180+ rich profiles of SQABD members with "LinkedIn SQABD".

6. SQABD is now on pageflakes: http://www.pageflakes.com/sqabd

7. Membership has doubled to 400+ by attracting the industry elites.

8. Moderate the mailing list for spam and random job ads to keep it professional and useful for our busy members.
9. SQABD has published the moderation guideline: http://tinyurl.com/262v73

Here is a short report on SQABD moderators activity in year 2007:

Year 2007
Members Banned	87
Members Removed	47
Posts Rejected	176
Posts Approved	344
Last 3 Month (Oct - Dec)
Members Banned	26
Members Removed	13
Posts Rejected	36
Posts Approved	57

SQABD tried to upheld the quality of the discussion in the group

There are more coming...

1. SQABD has recorded the Microsoft Career Event which will be published soon.
2. SQABD will release it's usability Tested website soon.
3. SQABD is planning for Technical Events with JPGroup and PHPExperts

4. SQABD has already recorded a video interview with Sohel Islam (from Microsoft) and will publish it soon

Thank you all for being with us and making it an enjoyable and motivating ride. Stay tuned for a great year ahead. :)

source: SQABD Yahoo Group: post # 1039

Fokhruz Zaman on Meet the Mentors by SQABD

“Meet the Mentors” on Fokhruz Zaman, CTO at Millennium Information Solution Ltd. has been published by SQABD very recently. Check out this link for more details:
http://sqabdmentors.blogspot.com/2007/11/fokhruz-zaman-on-meet-mentors-by-sqabd.html

Please reply to this below URL with the names of the mentors you know, the company they work for, and the areas they thrived, i.e. Project Management, Software Quality Assurance, Software Architecture, Programming etc.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sqa_bangladesh/message/535

SQABD plans to interview these exceptional individuals and upload the recordings for everyone to hear.

SkypeCast was held for the SQABD Roundtable Meeting - 12th Session

In last 16th June, 2007 - SQABD (www.sqabd.com) has arranged its' 12th Roundtable Meeting on topic of "State of Software Testing in Bangladesh" at Baton Rouge restaurant. Participants in the meeting was near about 20 persons. And there was an option for joining the meeting through SkypeCast. This Skypecast option for joining in SQABD meeting made people even to join from abroad and even for those person who were not able to join the meeting in person.

For a long time SQABD was thinking to come up with an option where our Bangladeshi Technical Experts from abroad can join the Roundtable Meetings and can add value to make it more productive. At last SQABD came up with the idea of using Skypecast at this 12th session in last Saturday so that anyone can join from anywhere.

Sometimes it becomes even tough for members who are not from Dhaka, and might not be able to attend this short 2/3 hours roundtable meeting coming from a remote area. So from now the SkypeCast will be a good way to join the SQABD Roundtable Meeting for anyone just by using a good broadband connection and Skype for connecting to SQABD Skypecast in time.

This is the 1st time any Technical Community in Bangladesh has arranged such an option for everyone to join through online which is more flexible to join for people who are in abroad or in a different city/remote area.

Please feel free to share your ideas or questions :)

State of Software Test Teams in BD - by SQABD

SQABD (www.sqabd.com) announced it's 12th Roundtable Meeting on "State of Software Test Teams in BD" which is going to be held on next Saturday [16th June, 2007]. Anyone can join through the SkypeCast of SQABD which will be starting after 04:00 pm Bangladesh Time.


Date and Time: Saturday, June 16, 2007 [4:00pm to 6:00pm Bangladesh Time]

Topic: "State of Software Test Teams in BD"

Participants: 15 to 20 (Invited guest) + number of persons through SkypeCast

Agenda of Discussion:
Selected Senior Test Engineers and Test Team Leads will come together to share their experiences in software testing. Discussions will include tester evaluation process, training, hiring, useful testing tools, overcoming issues with the development team etc. We will discuss what works and what does not work, based on our experience.


SkypeCast:
https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=3000526&hash=e327899f81a5e8e693f3


Please feel free to join the Skypecast and add value to the event.


See detail at SQABD - SQA Bangladesh Group.

Khandakar Asif Hasan on “Meet the Mentors” by SQABD

Some of us were lucky to have them in our professional career. Others only heard of their deeds from the lucky ones. They touched our career, improved our skills, inspired us to excel, motivated us to thrive, and showed us the path to success. They were our mentors.

Who are these extraordinary people in the Software Industry of Bangladesh? How did they shape the people around them? We need to know. We need to learn from them.

SQABD successfully released the 1st Meet the Mentors session with Khandakar Asif Hasan and introducing such resource podcasting in Bangladesh for the 1st time.

Khandakar Asif Hasan is the Director at Spectrum Engineering Consortium ltd. He has more than 13 years of professional experience. The discussion includes:

• His working experience.
• What it takes to be a Software Architect.
• Training the human resources in a software company.
• Government policies regarding the software industry.
• Comparison with India.
• Automation, tools, risk analysis.
• Collaboration between software companies.
• Internship program.
• and more...
  

URL : http://sqabdmentors.blogspot.com/2007/02/khandakar-asif-hasan-on-meet-mentors-by.html

Please send your feedbacks how was this podcasting and propose your mentors in SQABD community so that SQABD can present them infront of all and know more :)