Subir dai, I have been talking to people (and working on OSM myself), and I was thinking it might be productive to organize a get together on July 16 with about 20 people from FOSS-Nepal somewhere with good bandwidth to do a little bit of an OSM session. I can go through OSM, some of the needs of OSM in Npal, some non-OSM GIS work that could be integrated, and finally ending with a quick OSM editing session where we get everyone set up and briefly editing OSM on their own laptops. We couldn't really handle more than 20 people, but if we have a group of people who have been involved in FOSS for a while, it would be a pretty interesting thing to do.
What do you (and rest of FOSS) think about this? I would definitely need some help organizing the event (4 hours max, hopefully more like 3) from some of you who have lots of experience organizing events here. Besides that intro, we will be soon proceeding putting data loaned to us by a couple of institutions up on OSM. But I think having FOSS knowledgeable about OSM will ensure some level of sustainability that really needs to continue beyond what we end up doing in terms of data imports. Looking for feedback (and event -management support), Prabhas On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Subir Pradhanang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Prabhas, > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Prabhas Pokharel > <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > 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. > > I have not really been into OSM till now, but would be interested to. > What's next? > > Cheers, > Subir > -- > Subir B. Pradhanang > FOSS Nepal Community > http://www.fossnepal.org > > -- > 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/
