Calling All NEDians: Where Do We Live?

Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on August 26, 2007

We use Sitemeter’s free service to track statistics on this blog. The map above shows the last 100 visitors to this blog in a 24 hour period and where they came from–as much as it is able to tell online. I find the graphic rather informative–and it seems to to be a pretty good representation of where NEDians live. But I could be wrong. It would be wonderful to hear from NEDians around the world and around Pakistan. Please drop a line in comments here and let everyone know where you are–especially if you’re in a place where there aren’t a lot of NEDians or if you think it’s a place the rest of us wouldn’t usually think of NEDians as living in. [That last includes you, Kashif Malik, in Multan.]

Aaj Puranee Raahon Say…

Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on August 2, 2007

اسلام علیکم and Hello!

آداب عرز ہے!۔

Welcome to “NED Nama”, a blog about, by, and for NEDians. This is envisaged as a place for us to meet, greet, reminisce about the old days, and find out what other NEDians are doing.

This July marks exactly 20 years since my batch–”‘87-88″ we call it in NED–finished 12th Grade/High School/”Inter”, whatever you want to call it. Almost 15 since we stopped going to NED daily. And in all that time, quite a few of us have made several efforts to create organizations, databases, and other means of getting NEDians organized and on one platform. We’ll talk of the details, the history of those efforts as continue the journey on this blog.

NEDians.org is, you could say, another effort to do the same. But this time, maybe, just maybe we can pull this off, if we get into the spirit of open-ness that is starting to take hold in technology. Over the years, I had moved from trying to get everyone together on one platform–email group, organization, whatever–to just collecting information on all the groups, organizations, events, etc. in one place. Which is how I came to be running the NEDian Alumi page on WikiPakistan. (Do check it out, if you haven’t; it has a very good list of resources and events–listed batch-wise, geographically, and so on. And a lot of Multimedia stuff; pictures of NED, video… you name it.)

A couple of things have lead to starting this blog and the NEDians.org site.

First and foremost is the upcoming Convention of NEDians being held in Silicon Valley, where I live and work. It is actually the third in a series started by Moin Ahmad and others in Houston in 2005 followed by the 2006 convention in New Jersey.

Secondly, now that a lot of us are active and prominent in the Web 2.0 world–blogs, wikis, and suchlike–it makes sense to try and create a central place for NEDians to congregate and interact is this new medium.

So come on, and let’s talk about NED. As the masthead above says:

زبردست! زبردست!! این ای ڈی زبردست!!!۔

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