I will be in Kathmandu at least until the first week of September. I think, it will be more effective if we spend some time to prepare, as Subir suggests.
Nama On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Subir Pradhanang <[email protected]> wrote: > Prabhas, > > Sorry for getting back a bit late, was engaged in other stuff. > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Prabhas Pokharel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Thanks for taking this initiative. Definitely a good idea to organize > a small get together on this. Have a few questions from my side: > > - Has there already been any preparations or do we need to start from > scratch? We can create a planning page on the wiki. > - How long is Nama jee staying here? Is the proposed date already > fixed or do we need/have some more time to prepare? > - Also need to decide about the venue > - Need to make a call for the interested audience to be a part of the > event, be it on the foss-nepal list or college lists or fb/twitter, > etc. > (Perhaps we could also have let the students know about it in the > IOE workshop last week! anyways...) > - Not sure about any costs associated with the event or perhaps any > organization willing to support it > > I'll have some time to dedicate for its preparations later this week, > Thursday and/or Friday. Do let me know if we could do something on > one/both of those days. We'll also need to get other people, already > working on OSM, in the loop soon. > > Cheers, > Subir > -- > Subir B. Pradhanang > FOSS Nepal Community > http://www.fossnepal.org > Cell: 9841268738 > > -- > 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/ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nama R. Budhathoki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada http://budhathoki.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein -- 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/
