[Talk-bd] First Mapping Party, February 21, 2011

[Ishtiaque Ahmed]

Hello All,

The first ever mapping party in Bangladesh was held in a kindergarten school
at Dhanmondi, Dhaka on Febryary 21, 2011. We are happy that we could arrange
the event in the International Mother Tongue Day which is a matter of pride
of every Bengali people. We sincerely thank Community Action, a volunteer
group, for helping us to arrange this mapping party.

The invitation tot he mapping party was done via Facebook and mailing lists.
There were about 20 people present int he party. Many other, though were
interested, could not manage to come due to unavoidable reasons.

There were four Lectures in the party:
1) The introduction of the lecturers to the volunteers, the necessity of
Leadership: by Sohaila Ridwan, Community Action.
2) Why OpenStreetMap? Prospects and Future: by Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, OSM-BD,
HTI, BUET
3) How to make maps: by K. M. Rakibul Islam, OSM-BD, HTI, BUET.
4) Declaration of the future mapping projects and listing of interested
volunteers.

I have attached here a few photos of the party.

Best Regards,
Ishtiaque

-- 
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Lecturer,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.
Ph: +880 2 9345488 (res), +880 1819 428898 (mobile)
Personal Website: http://kallol.echoz.com
Faculty Webpage: http://www.buet.ac.bd/cse/faculty/facdetail.php?id=kallol
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