Request to form a mailing list for Sri Lanka

[nimalika]

I am one FOSS GIS user based on Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka. I came across FOSS GIS tools in 2006 when searching for a tool for a student project and end up with adopting some of them in local context and then promoting them via teaching and through various projects. Eventually I became a member of OSGeo mailing list and participated with a presentation in FOSS4G 2009 held in Sydney. Though few people have asked me to start a FOSS GIS interest group in Sri Lanka time to time, I haven’t tried to do that formally as the community itself is not very large and still in its infancy. Recently I had a chance to meet Vivien Deparday, who came to Sri Lanka to assist in a UN supported project which totally based on FOSS GIS tools, in our disaster management center. We are in the process of gathering the interesting people to move forward. Interest of the students and developers are picking up now and I hope this is a good time for starting a interest group to link open source community in Sri Lanka. Based on the responses, we can think about forming a local chapter later. Therefore, I request kindly to form a mailing list for Sri Lanka FOSS GIS community. I suggest to have the list name "SriLanka-Users" with the description “OSGeo mailing list for Sri Lanka” I will act as the list administrator initially(nimalikaf@…). If there is any other information, please mail me.

[jsanz]

Hi @nimalika, thanks for thinking in OSGeo as your host for your efforts.

I'll create the list following other community lists name pattern with just "srilanka" and with you as the admin. Do you have experience administering mailman? If you think it's needed, I can set myself as co-admin even I would prefer another member of your community to help you.

I'll add also the list to the Nabble archive.

I'll post links when I'm done.

Best

[jsanz]

OK list[1] and Nabble archive[2] created. For the time being I'll be also admin until you find someone else to help you.

I hope to change soon the Nabble name from OSGeo Sri Lanka Community to OSGeo Sri Lanka Local Chapter :-)

If you need further assistance use this ticket or drop a mail to the SAC list.

Cheers Jorge

[1] ​https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/srilanka [2] ​http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Sri-Lanka-Community-f5068611.html

[arnulf]

Jorge, @nimalika, I inadvertently created another list. If you received any access data from mailman please ignore. I will clean up the mess now, sorry for the potential confusion...

Cheers, Arnulf

[Jeff McKenna]

@nimalika let us know if you need any guidance in setting up an OSGeo Local Chapter.

I have also joined your mailing list :)

-jeff

[arnulf]

The erroneously created "SriLanka-users" list is removed now. Ticket closed closed.