Hi Rajan and All,

Please plan a FOSS4G-Asia 2016 with special session for SAARC. Great to hear about training program at ECIL organized by IIITH.

Regarding the NGC session, maybe

1) Introduction to FOSS4G technology and Geo4All initiative 2) FOSS4G-India Activity Report 3) FOSS4G-Sri Lanka Acticity Report 4) FOSS4G at AIT 5) Municipal GIS initiatives in India 6) ???

with 30 minutes for each presenter could be a good idea. We could also distribute the OSGeo-Live DVD [1] to participants.

It would great if the special session at NGC helps to get FOSS4G activities in Nepal kickstarted.

The mailing list created for FOSS4G-Asia is still usable and maybe some others have suggestions too. I forward this mail to the list too.

Best

Venka

On 2015/03/01 0:09, K S Rajan wrote:

Dear Venka,

Well, at the outset, I support the idea that we should organize a FOSS4G session at NGC. And well, interestingly in the last OSGeo-India's Executive council meeting there was a proposal to plan for a SAARC FOSS4G event given the interest of the current Govt. of India.

First, I think we need to identify who all can Volunteer to participate and present in such a session? And I request Dr. Pathak to let us know what does he expect from such a session - is it for Introducing FOSS4G tools and OSGeo? or FOSS4G and Education (the potential for using these tools in Universities and colleges) or Examples of its applications? or an eclectic mix of these.

Btw, I am happy to share that we (IIIT Hyd and OSGeo-India) are now in the midst of a 6-day training programme in Open Source Geospatial Technology Development for ECIL Hyderabad (a premier Public Sector Corporation) using QGIS and Qt software development platform.

regards, Rajan

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From: "Venkatesh Raghavan" venka.osgeo@gmail.com To: "K S Rajan" rajan@iiit.ac.in, "Ravi Vundavalli" ravivundavalli@gmail.com, "nimalika fernando" nimalikaf@gmail.com, "Sarawut Ninsawat" sarawut.ait@gmail.com, sittichaic@nu.ac.th, "Dinesh Pathak" dpathaktu@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 8:08:27 PM Subject: About FOSS4G Session at Nepal Geological Congress

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Dear All,

Nepal Geological Congress (NGC) will be organized between 7-9 April 2015 and the Dr. Dinesh Pathak, President, Nepal Geological Society has requested if we could organize a FOSS4G session.

I guess that if we manage 3-4 presenters from India, Sri Lanka etc, and get a few presenters from Nepal, we could put up a session. I attach the second circular, with only a month left, we need to decide fast if it is possible to put up a FOSS4G session at NGC.

I was planning to go, but unfortunately, it is will be beginning of Academic year in April and difficult to move out of the University.

Let me know your suggestions regarding this matter.

Best

Venka