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

[nicolas chavent]

Ishtiaque and all

Great reading your email and congrats for the mapping party, looking fwd to
the upcoming mapping projects and any support work HOT can provide you with
Nicolas

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque at csebuet.org>wrote:

> 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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