The document discusses building a technical ecosystem in Nepal, focusing on communities around WordPress, Mozilla, Python, and startups. It describes several meetups, conferences, and events organized by the author and others to bring people together, share ideas, and contribute to open source projects in order to foster collaboration and growth. The goal is to establish Nepal as a destination for technical talent and contribute to the country's development.

1. Building
Technical
Ecosystem
- Chandan Goopta
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2. Research Student @ KU
Foodie, Traveller, Movie Addict
Twitter @chandangoopta
Co-ogranizer TECH MASHUP
Python Developers Nepal
www.linuxcandy.com
Who am I?
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6. MindSet
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7. I would say that Los Angeles is extremely di!erent from Silicon Valley in the
mindset of people. SV attracts the top young people in the world who want to do a tech start
up. LA is an entertainment meccathat also has a lot of tech start ups
because it’s a big city on the west coast of the US. It’s a nice environment to live, but it has a lot of
distractions and is very dispersed. I think it’s much harder to do any large scale start up in LA. I also
think that LA people do not feel part of a community as much as therefore
don’t help each other as much.This is related in part to the distractions and the dispersion
e!ect in my opinion.
Chris Grey, Founder and CFO of Caplinked
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8. Y U No Share Your Idea?
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10. I was amazed to "nd people in Silicon Valley to
be openly sharing ideas, even if another
entrepreneur may steal it. It took me several years to really get it. Silicon Valley is full of
great ideas, but ideas are cheap... and execution is the hard part.If you think you
have a great unique idea, I’d bet 5 other people in Silicon Valley already
thought of it.It’s because we share ideas, we ri! o! each other and sometime great
companies are born.
Rick Marini, Founder of Branchout
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11. I was amazed to "nd people in Silicon Valley to be openly sharing ideas, even if another
entrepreneur may steal it. It took me several years to really get it. Silicon Valley is full of
great ideas, but ideas are cheap... and execution is the hard part. If you think you have a
great unique idea, I’d bet 5 other people in
Silicon Valley already thought of
it.It’s because we share ideas, we ri! o! each other and sometime great companies are
born.
Rick Marini, Founder of Branchout
Monday, August 12, 13

12. I was amazed to "nd people in Silicon Valley to be openly sharing ideas, even if another
entrepreneur may steal it. It took me several years to really get it. Silicon Valley is full of
great ideas, but ideas are cheap... and execution is the
hard part.If you think you have a great unique idea, I’d bet 5 other people
in Silicon Valley already thought of it. It’s because we share ideas, we ri! o! each other and
sometime great companies are born.
Rick Marini, Founder of Branchout
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13. Pay It Forward
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14. Silicon Valley has given birth to more billion dollar companies than any other ecosystem
because of its plentiful risk capital, world class talent, inclusion of the headquarters of
many giant public companies, a vibrant support ecosystem, and an open-
minded, trust, “pay it forward”, change the world
culture. It’s only signi"cant downsides are its high living costs, and hyper-
competitive talent market, that forces startups to not just compete against the other
best startups, but against perk-laden large companies like Google and Facebook.
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15. “People in Silicon Valley really believe in “pay it forward”. It’s not all
transactional and tit-for-tat. Folks help each other and those not as far along as them.
It’s also very accepting of failure; if you have some real catastrophes on your resume,
that’s considered a badge of honor - there are not a lot of places on the planet that’s
true. It’s also the easiest place in the world to start a company. Everyone is here
to help you kick ass.”
David Weekly, Founder of PBworks
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16. Community
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17. Events
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18. Meet-ups
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19. First Meet-up August 12, 2012
7 Meet-ups
1 HackNight
Avinash, Roshan Dai, Sanjeev Dai, James Dai, MJT
PHPCon is still a Plan
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21. Developers Meet-up
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22. First Meet-up: Feb 02, 2013
Chandan Gupta, Manish Dai, Suraj Dai, Ranendra
Dai, Amit Dai
2nd Meet-up on 17th Aug, 2013
PyCon ??
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24. Mozilla Nepal Community
Firefox App Days
Mozilla Representatives
Localization
Making the Web
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25. Foss-Nepal
FOSS Contribution
Software Freedom Day
Learn as a Community
Community Projects
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26. Informal Meet-up
(SysAdmin Day)
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28. Hack-nights
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30. Informal Meet-up
Formal Meet-up
Meet-ups
Hack-nights
Hack Weekends
Pay It Forward
Contribute
Build a Team
Give it Forward
Take it Forward
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31. University Role
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32. Conferences
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33. 1st Meet-up: April 2011
20+ Meet-ups
Chandra Maharzan, Ujjwal Thapa, Sakin Shrestha
Wordcamp 2012 and 13 (to be held)
Wordpress Nepal
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34. Trying to focus on everything is not possible in real life and there are a LOT of groups that
tends to call themselves representatives of "all platform". We want to focus just
one one platform, WordPress, so its easier to concentrate, gather together
those people who are really into it, be it blogging to contributing to core development. Its a
Virtuous cycle, you contribute to betterment of WordPress, you
contribute to increase the community,the bene"t at the end comes to you.
You have more market, you have a better product and if you are a good developer, getting
jobs will be much easier. We are simply trying to promote our local developers to start
sharing and contributing so they get the ultimate bene"t and also to "get noticed" in the
whole world. We have already started doing that but we need more in order to
establish Nepal as a "WordPress" destination
and contribute to the little technological development we have here.
Chandra Maharjan
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35. No volunteers/speakers were paid. WordCamps /
Meet-ups are always like that. We did have a
dinner partyfor them as a motivation.
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37. Networking
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38. 1st Mashup: 28th April, 2013
500+ attendees
15 cool companies showcase
Avinash, Chandan, Caterine
Next Mashup??
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39. Startup-Culture
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40. SWKtm: 5th July, 2013
Next SWKtm: 27th Sep, 2013 and Nov
Big Organizing Committee
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41. Kathmandu-Ecosystem
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