[WebCom] event calendaring - Fw: [Free Map] Mumbai Free Map Workshop, 13-14 January

[Jo Walsh]

dear all,

Something i'd like to reinstate from the prototype on the new site
ASAP is event calendaring. This workshop below looks fascinating, and
should be promoted even as a reconstructable concept, but i feel
reluctant to post things like this to the main discuss list or to the
freegis list, as the proportion of all those hundreds of people who 
will be near Mumbai at this time is pretty small. 

http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/event_archive/event_archive.html 
is just a static page, i am presuming. At least the drupal calendar
has a little bit of builtin structural intelligence and doesn't need
manually updated to tell us that October 2006 is not in the future :) 

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	Mumbai Free Map Community GIS <freemap at lists.crit.org.in>
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:12:14 +0530
Subject: [Free Map] Mumbai Free Map Workshop, 13-14 January
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Dear All:

We plan to organise an intensive two-day workshop on the use of
geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial web applications
based on Free and Open Source software (FOSS). This public workshop will
be held on SATURDAY 13 JANUARY and SUNDAY 14 JANUARY 2007 at the Homi
Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) in Mumbai. 

The objective will be to teach and guide participants through all the
steps of producing an interactive spatial database and web map using the
OSGeo Toolkit. Through the workshop, participants will build their own
Free Map using a combination of open source software, copyleft maps, and
community information. 

The workshop is based on the Mumbai Free Map project collaboration, and
is co-organised by the Gnowledge Lab at HBCSE, CRIT (Collective Research
Initiatives Trust), the Free Map Collective and MetaCarta Labs. For more
detailed information about the workshop and any updates to the
programme, please visit http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/HbcseWorkshop
and to browse the Mumbai Free Map please visit http://mumbai.freemap.in 


REGISTRATION

The workshop is free and open to the public. Ideally, participants
should be familiar with the open source software and the Linux operating
system, web client-server architecture, basic database management, and
basic terminal commands -- we hope to cater to different skill sets and
backgrounds. Participants should also have an interest in the use of
OSGeo for their own work and projects.

To register for the workshop, please send an e-mail to
freemapworkshop at crit.org.in with your name, address, and contact
information including phone numbers, and a brief description of your
background and your interest in the workshop. Registration will remain
open until WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY, but please contact us ASAP if you would
like to participate. For more information, please call Shekhar Krishnan
on +91.98200.45529. 


ORGANISERS

Gnowledge Lab
http://www.gnowledge.org

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)
http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in

CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) 
http://www.crit.org.in 

Freemap Collective
http://www.freemap.in

MetaCarta Labs
http://labs.metacarta.com

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Shekhar Krishnan
9, Supriya, 2nd Floor
Plot 709, Parsee Colony Road no.4
Dadar, Mumbai 400014
India

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar
http://www.heptanesia.net
http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar


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