 Welcome everyone and sorry we have been having a bit of a mess out here so something wrong with the sound system we've been getting this persistent buzz in the sound and you've been spent the last hour trying to fix it but I don't think you have a solution to it yet. So at this point we're not going to be using that computer for recording sessions we just use in the camera. So for those of you who, how many of you here or have you even before? Okay so half of you are here for the first time and do you know much about ASCII or about Katnoma? We've got a few minutes so I'm going to keep it open for people to speak up. There's someone who's been here before on to introduce what we do. I'm going to be calling this Nomi Chayantcha. Thank you. So it's your second time. So this is the second event I'm participating with ASCII. The first event was the fifth event and before that there was a high type in Pune. So as far as what I understand this ASCII case is the organization which organizes school geek events. I mean I've been to events in Pune and Bangalore so I think they have their presence in Pune and Bangalore and I usually see people with ASCII on any geek forum, any deck forum you pick and they're there. Katnoma is an event which will tell us about geospatial data, the technology around it. I am here because I have been playing around with some OSM data recently and I would like to know more about the geospatial possibilities which someone could make use of. Typically I would like to make use of the geospatial data in a graph based scenario. So that's what I'm here for and I'm hoping Katnoma is going to be fun because the schedule which talks about the events here looks like I was hoping. So there's a room also here. So I had some interaction with... Okay, so I've had some interactions with such as Arun before. So when it comes to geospatial data I'm an amateur or a newbie. So I would like to know more about what geospatial and location based solutions are and how can you put them to use in real life problems. So that's what my expectations are from Katnoma. Thanks. So just to find out something. You know about a few years ago, a bunch of us were working on OpenStateMap and how many of you are familiar with OpenStateMap? Most of you are. So you know what OSM is? You know it's a Wikipedia of maps. And OSM as a project started up in 2005 and until about 2008 there wasn't much of the map in India. So if you went and looked at Bangalore you would probably see a highway going all the way from Bombay to Chennai and that was all Bangalore was on the map. And so roughly around 2008, a bunch of us got around started doing a bunch of mapping workshops. So we had one of the OpenStateMap board members traveling to India at that point and along with him and another person who used to work on an earlier free map project. We did a series of workshops around India. One of them was in Bangalore. So as a result of the workshop, a lot of people discovered OpenStateMap and discovered this idea that you could go build your own map and started mapping the country. So Bangalore is very extensively covered now, so is Chennai and both of them as a result of the workshop that was coming here in 2008. But the other thing we realized is workshops are not really a community forum because most people, if you've never heard of this workshop, you know nothing about this anymore. There is no public channel by which you can discover these things. So roughly around 2010, we started thinking of doing this a little more seriously and putting together a community forum that was around the idea of open geographical data. That's taken a while to come down to Bing action and the kind of conference we're doing today is the start of that series. So we did a workshop in March, again, with the same two people, Mikhail Meron and Skyda Al. Now we're doing the conference and from this point onwards, we're also going to be running the website. The website is going to be a community forum where we can talk about what they're doing when it comes to open data or geolocation or location-based services.