We started with a rough agenda doc/paper. You can get a view of what it looked like here: KTMGTUG - November 2011 Meetup Agenda

Allow me to share what we came up with:

Participation: 12 + 4

Bhupal Sapkota (this is me, i am reporting now), Bhuwan Pokharel, Sunoj Shrestha, Prakash Newpane, Kedar Bhandari, Bishnu Bidari, Rajesh Khadka, Hem K. Shrestha, Suresh Ghimire, Sushil Gupta, Nawaraj Singh Thakuri, Tek Nath Pokharel

 

and about 4 other guys from Classic Cafe New Baneshwor who welcomed us to the cafe, served us tea and at the same time were wondering what the heck we were gossiping there. I clarified them later that we were talking about something good for our tech community. They winked :) 

Discussions/Decisions:

Agenda: 1) Introduction : Hello session, tea/coffee

It was nice meeting all community members who were present at the meetup in person.

Agenda: 2) Collaborative Blogging @ http://ktmgtug.blogspot.com

This idea is similar to main GTUG Magazine Site http://gtugs.blogspot.com We will formulate a team of blogger who will cover articles/posts on specific topics once in a week on fortnight. Proposed blog topics were : Google APIs, Android News/Tutorials etc.

On this agenda Kedar Reported:

It was really a fun ! Today we discussed, even it is better to say-expanded the idea of Collaborative Blogging at a tea table meeting held at a restaurant (Opposite to College Cafe,about 50 meters away from Baneshor chowk towards Shankhamul). The program was actually scheduled to be organized at the College Cafe but as it was closed at the time, it was then held at the restaurant, opposite to that cafe. Although the meeting was done with just a cup of tea, the sharing of idea was great achievement, and the most interesting part was that we individually paid for that cup of tea too(!).

The idea behind Collaborative Blogging is a group of members or better to say group of bloggers contributing at a specific topic at the same platform.

We were 12 community members present at the meeting. The participants were from different fields and interests of IT including Computer Science & IT, Engineering and Media.Out of this presence, we formulated four blogging groups who will contribute research papers/articles on their respective interest area as described below. (please subscribe to our blog to get these updates in your email.)

1. Robotics/AI

The topic seems interesting. Among the participants Suresh Ghimire, Prakash Neupane, and Hem K. Shrestha showed their interest at this topic so they are going contribute their knowledge, ideas and experience through Collaborative Blogging.

2. Web Design/Development/Presentation/Networking

The most popular and most common topic in today's world. Among the participants Rajesh Khadka, Bhuwan Pokharel, Sunoj Shrestha, Teknath Pokharel and Nawaraj Singh Thakuri showed their interest at the topic and they are going to contribute including the different fields/tools of Web Design.

3. Android

Among the participants Bishnu Bidari from Amrit Science Campus showed his interest in Android so he is going to share his ideas through the Collaborative Blogging.

4. Latest Updates (Technology)

Among the participants, Sushil Gupta, Bhupal Sapkota and myself Kedar Bhandari showed our interest toward Latest Updates in technology sector in our country and around the world. So we are going to contribute in Latest Updates of Technologies through the collaborative blogging.

These were some topics we discussed at the meeting but the idea behind is its never ending collaboration, the new topics will be there. Even you, (the reader) can contribute with different topic!

Moreover, the team decided to  post at least a  blog according to their respective field/interest in a period of 15 days (at least), and this will be his/her responsibility as well.

Agenda: 3) Next Event Planning / Discussion

Theme for the next event will be a “Blogging Workshop”, where KtmGTUG will provide a complete technical presentation on how to create, update and maintain a personal/corporate blog with existing available blogging platforms. Team will decide the target audience within 10 days (i.e till 15th November) which will be one of the

- School level Students,
- College students(+2, bachelors), medical students
- C.A. members
- Media Celebrities.

 

Agenda: 4) Presenters for next events:

Since the next event will be a “Blogging Workshop”, we will call selected external presenters to share their experience in blogging/online content publishing.

Agenda: 5) KtmGTUG Meetup - Every Month

Kathmandu GTUG Community will meet on every first Saturday once in a month. The location and time of the meet-up shall be shared via Google Group of Kathmandu GTUG a week prior to the meet-up.

Agenda: 6) Sharing Member Profiles - (With Google Docs Web Forms)

KtmGTUG member Sushil will create a web form with discussed profile outline. The profile information collected via the web form will be visible to all Kathmandu GTUG community members.

Sushil created a Google Doc Form in the eve that day where, Kathmandu GTUG community members can submit their information. Our main objective for collecting this information is getting to know each others in community. If you are from Kathmandu GTUG community or want to join our community please add your information in the form. You can view the collected info too.

Feedback about the meetup from participants:

Sunoj Shrestha said :

Thanks to all those who have contributed. I am really hoping to step up from being a user to being a developer and KtmGTUG is going to be my platform. Anyone interested in being a developer can join this group and share ideas on various technology.

Rajesh Khadka said:

Though i am late in responding due to some problem. Saturday’s program was awesome. And thanks to  Bhupal dai and all the KtmGTUG member’s to provide us the the information about platform like this. As Sunoj Shrestha mentioned that this is the platform to enhance our knowledge so i would like to  say ”if any one is interested then this is the right place to be”.

Since we had long list of agendas to be discussed we ended up taking a bunch of more hours (about 3 hours) than initially expected (1 hour at max). But, the excitement of getting to know KtmGTUG community members in person, discussing/sharing ideas for improvements of the community were really inspiring. This meet-up was awesome experience for all of us.

We would love to see more of our community members to be present on next meetups/events organized by Kathmandu Google Technology Users Group.

Happy Googling.

P.S.

Photo Credits to Bhuwan.

This report was written using Google Docs - collaborating in real-time with all the participants of the meetup.