Thank you all for your inspiring comments. Yes, I will journal all these things in my OSM wiki page. I just have sent 4 groups to 4 different parts of old Dhaka; and will start now with my GPS. I am happy to see all 5 GPS units working and more and more waypoints being put on the OSM.
If you are a user of Facebook, you can check the event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183751744994255&index=1 Thanks, Ishtiaque On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats Ishtiaque! > > Wonder if you can post this publicly? Even just on your OSM diary would be > great record keeping for the OSI scholarship. > > == Mikel Maron == > +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtia...@csebuet.org> > *To:* talk-bd@openstreetmap.org; Mikel Maron <mikel.ma...@gmail.com>; > nicolas chavent <nicolas.chav...@gmail.com>; Larry O'Neill < > larryone...@gmail.com>; sohaila ridwan <thes...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Thu, February 24, 2011 1:54:43 PM > *Subject:* First Mapping Party, February 21, 2011 > > 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 > -- 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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