Great! Sounds like there is some existing activity, and an interest to contribute to OSM going around then.
A question to the group: would there be an interest in an event to present the kinds of things we are doing with OSM, Nama ji's research, and a general introduction to OSM to the general FOSS-Nepal audience? It would probably work out if we did this the second week of July, when Namaji is here, and maybe we can follow up presentations with assisted work on editing OSM? If so, I would definitely need a bit of support from people who have experience organizing FOSS-related events for Nepal, but it would be a super fun thing to do! Cheers, Prabhas On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Prabin Gautam <[email protected]>wrote: > hi guys, > > I have just uploaded the l10n glossary which was used earlier for various > localization projects to our website. > > Hope it will help in maintaining a sort of uniformity in localization > > I have also added link to in wiki for later reference. > > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=FOSS_Nepal_Community#Resources > > http://fossnepal.org/docs/l10n/l10nglossary.ods > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Saroj Dhakal <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I had begun localization of OSM in Nepali in translatewiki.net . >> >> If anyone want to help in localization , making it readable and >> comprehensible to lots of people without knowledge of English ,you people >> also can help OSM in that regards as well. >> >> Would it be possible to share the knowledge to the broadcast audience >> scattered in the different corners of the world ? That would be great if >> possible . >> >> Thanks for coming up for sharing ! Keep your good work up ! >> >> Thanks, >> Saroj >> >> On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Nama Budhathoki <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Prabhas, >> >> Thanks for bringing <http://www.openstreetmap.org>www.openstreetmap.org(OSM) >> to this list. >> >> I studied openstreetmap for my PhD dissertation at the University of >> Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and will be happy to share my experience. I >> will be in Kathmandu in the second week of July. Let me know if you are >> interested to meet face-to-face and discuss more on this. >> >> Nama >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Prabhas Pokharel >> <<[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey FOSS community, >>> I am reaching out because I wanted to work on developing OSM >>> (<http://openstreetmap.org> >>> http://openstreetmap.org)[1] further for Nepal, and we have some >>> interest from organizations who own significant GIS data to donate that to >>> OSM. >>> >>> Once everything becomes a bit clearer, I also want to reach out to the >>> larger group, and see if there is interest to give demos of OSM, how to >>> edit, why OSM is cool, and building FOSS map software using OSM as base >>> layer. >>> *But before then*, I wanted to reach out to ask if anyone has already >>> been working on OSM-related activities in Nepal, and can assist us (I have >>> been working with Jwalanta Shrestha and Jitendra Harlalka a bit) with the >>> process of finalizing both the data donation process and the data import. >>> What I am looking for is someone who either already has OSM/GIS experience, >>> or who wants to build some of that knowledge (not hard to do), or just loves >>> maps. Basiclaly, we will create a small team that will then continue the >>> process of finalizing this process of data import, and make OSM a very >>> viable and usable base layer of maps for Nepal. >>> >>> So, whos in? >>> >>> [1] - OpenStreetMap, for those who don't know is the freely editable and >>> community maintained map of the world, the Wikipedia of maps, if you would. >>> It is the basis of any FOSS mapping applications, because it has generic >>> licensing terms (did you know that you can't make offline cache of google >>> map images?) and is community maintained like FOSS projects. In fact, many >>> FOSS groups around the world have OSM as one of their primary activities. >>> >>> Prabhas Pokharel >>> <http://twitter.com/prabhasp>http://twitter.com/prabhasp >>> Nepal mobile: +977 98137 91044 >>> US mobile: +1 347 948 7654 >>> skype/facebook/whatever: prabhasp >>> >>> -- >>> FOSS Nepal mailing list: <[email protected]> >>> [email protected] >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <foss-nepal%[email protected]> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> Mailing List Guidelines: >>> <http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines> >>> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >>> Community website: <http://www.fossnepal.org/>http://www.fossnepal.org/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Nama R. Budhathoki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA >> Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada >> <http://budhathoki.wordpress.com>http://budhathoki.wordpress.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." 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Computing Graduate > The University of Northampton > Northamptonshire, UK > > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- Prabhas Pokharel http://twitter.com/prabhasp Nepal mobile: +977 98137 91044 US mobile: +1 347 948 7654 skype/facebook/whatever: prabhasp -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
