Twenty-four! The number is certainly not very big, but whenever I look at the attendence of the Blog Meet IV and saw that 24 bloggers attended the April 21 gathering, I feel great. Not only because it was double than the biggest previous meeting, but because the discussion today led us to a new direction.
The most motivating factor was participation of Buddhi Narayan Shrestha, the border issue expert, who will surely prove a big motivator for all bloggers and six female bloggers.
Everybody agreed that we need a formal structure, although there was hot discussion whether is should be registered or not. Going through self-nomination process, KP Dhungana, Ghanshyam Ojha, Deepak Adhikari, Ram Prasad Dahal, Bishnu Dhakal, Rajendra Biswokarma, Avinashi Paudel, Mohd Tajim and Tapas Barsimha Thapa became the members of the working committee while I nominated Umesh Shrestha.
For now, until the formal structure is made, I will be co-ordinating the working committee. Thanks all for approving me for the responsibility.
The other major decision made today include giving kick-start to book publication. KP Dhungana will be co-ordinating the work while all of us agreed to help him by writing what he will ask for. All the bloggers will write their blogging experience (either English or Nepali), Deepak will write a chapter on Nepali Blogging History, I will write the chapter on international trend on blogging while Salik Shah and Mohd Tajim will write a practical guidelines of using blogger.com and WordPress respectively.
As Deepak has written, the meeting was truly inclusive with six females participating, Rajendra representing dalit community and Tajim and Salik representing the Madhesi community. And Umesh has a wonderful photoblog of the meeting here.
Links to the blog entries written by other participants
Deepak’s Diary – The Breaking Post
Mero Sanssar – Photoblog / Videoblog
Hamro Blog, Nepal Diary, & Nepal Info (all Nepali)
Afno Kura – Links to Posts
