Computer Association of Nepal - USA

Venue: Taste Of Himalaya, Berkeley

Members Present: Gaurab R Upadhaya, Amod Pokharel, Prajesh Shsrestha, and Bineet Sharma

We had a very fruitful exchange of ideas with CAN executive member Mr. Gaurab Raj Upadhaya who works for Packet Clearing House of Berkeley as a Internet Economic Analyst.

Discussion topic covered were:

a) Ways to energize the base and stay in the radar of everyone:

- Automatic calendar update so that members know what is going on.  Schedule can be sent using ICS format so that members can merge the schedule with their calendar (outlook, google calendar or etc.)   (action item for Gaurab ji to demo)

- Providing food during meeting is a crowd puller idea

b) Create Facebook page (action item Prajesh Shrestha)

c) Monthly electronic bulletins which will provide current events/news to members in a regular basis (Bineet to initiate conversation with CAN Nepal to provide a resource, Gaurab ji to follow up)

d) TOK to be pushed.  Banking industry could be next as one off TOK program to keep ball rolling while CAN scrambles with office space in Nepal for regular TOK programs

e) More ways to network - Gaurab ji to provide connection with Bikesh Sharma (Stanford Professor) and Om Prakash Gyawwali, a research scholar of Stanford