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OSGeo Nepal General Meeting - March 07, 2025

March 7, 2025

Facilitator: Manish Bam

Note Taking Volunteer: Pratichhya Sharma

Attendees: 13

Recap from previous meeting:

Agendas:

  • **** Encouragement for meeting:

  • Maybe in an open mic, present a 15-minute session: Lalit will present on elements of a map

  • Modify the agenda and further discuss: Pratixa.

  • Single mail reminder limit: Facilitator can remind everyone with single mail

To be announced in mail about the specific topic and open mic priority in mail. Reminder mail to be minimized.

  • Buffer agreed by Tek too. Fb does not accept. 3 social media for free with 30/so posts. Fb, linkedin: Request support for Dibikxya; char limit

- Contacting Dibikshya Shrestha about status update.

  • Discussion of schema with data access. Kshitij. : https://github.com/iamtekson/awesome-geospatial-data-sources

  • https://github.com/osgeonepal/Databank/issues/8 (maybe further discussion): low priority.

  • Document the list of items to be populated and updated.

  • Select area of interest, building and few other categories.

  • Create attribute list in the yml file.

  • Kshitiz will give the input this week.

  • Shared by Nishon: https://github.com/konishon/nepal-earthquake-epicenter-data

  • Should executes weekly

  • Volunteer: Kshitiz; Manish, Lalit(Tentatively), Nishon(co-ordinate)

  • General presentation for Osgeo Nepal: Pratichhya

  • Introduction to Osgeo Nepal: Template

  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gMjoh_QBF0agTn6kPHLrnT0MlemVomwT63C3X7mKmLk/edit#slide=id.g2423dac2e4a_1_0

  • Pratichhya: Yet to do. Haven’t done.

  • Nalina suggests a presentation of OSGeo Nepal in KU. She will present. The date is not fixed yet.

  • Nalina? Follow up by pratichhya

  • Babita also will be presenting the concept of OSGeo Nepal.

  • Babita? Follow up by pratichhya

  • Stickers or badge discussion in next meeting.

  • Discuss later (low priority)

  • Pratichhya takes responsibility for updating the https://osgeonepal.github.io/Meetings/meeting_2024-12-06/ but needs to decide.

  • Changes migrated

  • Do we want to migration each time:

  • Should not: Tek, Lalit,

  • Should keep: Kshitiz;

  • So we will maintain only in a single place: in markdown itself.

  • Pratichhya: Will create draft pr

  • Lalit discussed with Sushma on SEO.

  • Lalit reached out and will follow up by next meeting

Open mic:

  • Next session: Updating Rolling doc directly through markdown (Pratichhy

  • FOSS4G Asia accepted to be conducted in India

  • Tek: Will present his

Events & Opportunities:

  • LPS25: Tutorial, demonstration and hands-on session

  • AGIT

  • Postgsreql Conference this month

Meeting notes and Action items:

Next Month's Facilitator: Manish Bam X Lalit BC

Discussions & Questions:

Feb 7, 2025

Facilitator: Pratichhya Sharma

Note Taking volunteer:

Attendees: 9

Recap from the previous meeting:

  • Welcomed student representatives (SR): WRC: Manish Bam KU: Nalina Maharjan PU: Babita Khanal

  • Remaining T-Shirt Distribution: Adesh Regmi

  • Responsibility and guidance intro for SR: Kshitij

  • SR did a presentation in Hackfect organised by GESAN. Manish presented Osgeonepal on our behalf

  • Outreach platforms: Buffer as a better solution suggested by Dibikshya

Agendas :

  • Announcement post of SR: status?: poste

  • General presentation for Osgeo Nepal? Context specific?:

  • Next action with regards to Buffer?

  • Is Dibikshya provided access to all social media?

  • Jason: Event info: Looking for the volunteers: Anyone interested? status?

  • AWS Data inventory: Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs - Registry of Open Data on AWS. Status Kshitij?

  • Manish organised a data access and management meeting. A quick overview by Kshitij or Manish? Way forward?

  • Nalina, was the data access volunteer for the same task?

  • SR anyone wants to present on any idea they might have for their uni?

  • WRC(Manish)

  • KU(Nalina)

  • PU(Babita)

Open Mic:

  • FOSDEM25

Events & Opportunity :

  • https://www.scipy2025.scipy.org/ : Financial aid deadline: March 25th; Call for Proposals: Feb 26th

Meeting notes and action items:

  • Encouragement for meeting:

  • Maybe in an open mic, present a 15-minute session: Lalit will present on elements of a map

  • Modify the agenda and further discuss: Pratixa.

  • Single mail reminder limit: Facilitator can remind everyone with single mail

  • Buffer agreed by Tek too. Fb does not accept. 3 social media for free with 30/so posts. Fb, linkedin: Request support for Dibikxya; char limit

  • Discussion of schema with data access. Kshitij. : https://github.com/iamtekson/awesome-geospatial-data-sources

  • https://github.com/osgeonepal/Databank/issues/8 (maybe further discussion): low priority.

  • General presentation for Osgeo Nepal: Pratichhya

  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UwNDVpB8WdTMC8CVjzWeeAb5GojQZad6uykrn0RN4GA/edit#slide=id.p

  • Introduction to Osgeo Nepal: Template

  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gMjoh_QBF0agTn6kPHLrnT0MlemVomwT63C3X7mKmLk/edit#slide=id.g2423dac2e4a_1_0

  • Nalina suggests a presentation of OSGeo Nepal in KU. She will present. The date is not fixed yet.

  • Babita also will be presenting the concept of OSGeo Nepal.

  • Stickers or badge discussion in next meeting.

  • Pratichhya takes responsibility for updating the https://osgeonepal.github.io/Meetings/meeting_2024-12-06/ but needs to decide.

  • Lalit discussed with Sushma on SEO.

Next month's facilitator : Manish

Discussion & Questions:

Jan 3, 2025

Facilitator: Dibikshya Shrestha

Note Taking volunteer: Kshitij Raj Sharma

Attendees: 15

Recap from the previous meeting:

Agendas :

  • Welcome student representatives , Brief introduction and welcome

  • Remaining T-Shirt Distribution - Aadesh Regmi

  • GESAN Event we supported : Quick recap (Hackfest and)

  • Presentation by student representative in the event

  • Responsibility and guidance intro for student representative : Kshitij

  • We are targeting at least one physical meetup this year in 2025 , physical would be at one of the universities you are in ( Most likely )

  • https://osgeonepal.github.io/Roles%20and%20Responsibilties/roles_and_responsibiltiy/#campus-representative

Open Mic:

  • Indian foss4g community is bidding for the upcoming foss4g Asia , we should help and target for the next bidding possibly ?

  • AWS Sentinel COG API

  • Open Source Story Maps

Events & Opportunity :

  • https://bit.ly/SOTMUS2025scholarships

  • https://www.scipy2025.scipy.org/

  • https://fosdem.org/2025/

  • https://lps25.esa.int/

  • https://www.egu25.eu/

Meeting notes and action items:

  • WRC : Manish Bam KU : Nalina Maharjan PU : Babita Khanal

  • Manish, Nalina volunteered for the data access meeting coordination

  • Manish Bam : WRC , Third year

  • Nalina : Geomatics engineering , KU, Final Year

  • Babta Khanal : Purbanchal Khanal - GIT , 7th semester Geomatics engineering

  • Roles and responsibility : https://osgeonepal.github.io/Roles%20and%20Responsibilties/roles_and_responsibiltiy/#campus-representative

  • General presentation for OSGeo Nepal introduction : Pratikschya didi

  • Social Media Access : Buffer is good so far , check on pricing : Dibikshya

  • Kshitij : Check with Tek for social media access give to Dibikshcya

  • Babita : Medium size , Nalina : Medium size , → T Shirt size , Manish : 4XL size

  • The GESAN event was successful. We supported the hackfest ! Manish presented osgeonepal on our behalf

  • Jasan : Event info : reference video https://youtu.be/tJS8522sepE , Google form is on the video description , Looking for the volunteers : Anyone interested

  • Bridge point between university and osgeo

  • https://storymap.knightlab.com/, https://github.com/digidem/maplibre-storymap Open source alternatives of story map

  • AWS Data inventory : Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs - Registry of Open Data on AWS

  • Nalima can volunteer in the data access too

Next month's facilitator : Pratikchya Sharma

Discussion & Questions:

Dec 6, 2024

Facilitator: Aayush Chand

Note Taking volunteer: Dibikshya Shrestha

Attendees: 12

Recap from the previous meeting:

  • Discussed about Campus representative form selection by evaluation committee

  • Discussed about Data access group meeting

  • Collaboration with Open Knowledge Nepal: postponed until we have some data: Suraj

  • Discussed about collaboration with KUCC and about Field mapping event, new text channel in discord.

  • Discussed about the poll for the new monthly meeting time. Poll created by Tek

Agendas :

  • Final monthly meetup of 2024 with new meeting day and time.

  • Update on Student Representatives: Tek

  • Update on GESAN’s Geospatial Meet and GeoTalk: Dibikshya

  • OSM Hackfest as a pre-event of Geospatial Meet -2024 - Dibikshya

  • Collaboration with Open Knowledge Nepal?: Suraj

  • Data access WG meeting update- Tek/Kshitij

  • OSGeo Nepal Yearly Updates on osgeo-agm -2024 : Kshitij

  • Dataset update on HDX , Building and Road added , Up for the review : Kshitij

  • Creating promotional video for osgeonepal that can be used in every presentation or when we represent osgeo Nepal in events , who we are , what we do, our pictures activity pictures and etc , similar to this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_EGvb7a5E : Kshitij

Open Mic:

  • Who is handling the email?

Events & Opportunity :

  • https://bit.ly/SOTMUS2025scholarships

  • https://www.scipy2025.scipy.org/

  • https://fosdem.org/2025/

  • https://lps25.esa.int/

  • https://www.egu25.eu/

Meeting notes and action items:

  • Tek, Kshitij and Aadesh served as judges for Student representative and selected 3 students from 3 different campuses. Follow up to the selected representatives- Tek

  • Contact to Aadesh for tshirt for selected student representatives - Pratikshya

  • Mentorship for OSM Hackfest - Tek, Kshitij for now, need few more

  • Collaboration with open knowledge Nepal- postponed for now

  • Data access meeting postponed to next week

  • Osgeo Nepal introduction video to be made which truly reflects OSGeo Nepal, can be used in various events and presentations- Aayush Chand

  • Datasets on HDX update : building and road data added on HDX by Kshitij, more work to be done, details to be shared on next meeting by Kshitij

  • Tryout buffer.com, metricool, metrix.com for social media management - Dibikshya

Next month's facilitator : Dibikshya Shrestha

Discussion & Questions:

Nov 6, 2024

Facilitator: Suraj Thapa

Note Taking volunteer: Tek Kshetri

Attendees: 10+

Recap from the previous meeting:

  • Discussed some collaboration opportunities.

  • Discussed about data capsule and publication in HDX

  • Tshirt update: Contact Aadesh for 1st Batch Tshirt, second batch request is accepted here: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wxX5PAYGGAxFxGpXHDaPsl5l03pnC0jLCeDYdbjgIuY/edit?usp=sharing ) - comment your name, address and tshirt size

  • Roles and responsibility updated on website (https://osgeonepal.github.io/Roles%20and%20Responsibilties/roles_and_responsibiltiy/ )

Agendas :

  • Campus representative update: Dibikshya and Aayush

  • HDX successfully provided us with organization access : https://data.humdata.org/organization/osgeo-nepal , Volunteer needed for the data publication : Kshitij , One dataset example that needs further review but for everyone to go through how it would look like : https://data.humdata.org/dataset/osgeonepal_npl_roads

  • At least 1 week of volunteering will be required

  • Schema finalization for the building and road datasets

  • Review the existing published datasets

  • Review Government available datasets ( Administrative boundary , Populations , no of households - ward wise and P Codes )

  • Add Codes to all available datasets

  • Prepare to upload at least buildings, Roads(without code) , populated places with p codes

  • Decide on data access group with discussion of existing open knowledge nepal (Suraj) l , dataset in sight from Nishon ( Possibly next weekend ? ) ( Tek , Kshitij , Suraj , Shristi , Nishon atleast and interested all others , Kindly schedule meeting ASAP )

  • Geoseries/GeoTalk with GESAN-related update: Dibikshya and Tek

  • Potential collaboration with Open Knowledge Nepal? : Suraj

  • Updates on collaboration with KUCC: Suraj

  • GESAN collaboration for the event of national meet (annual event of club): Global team (Dibikshya)

  • Should we change the meeting time to weekends?

  • Communication WG - Gmail access and future posters and social media post - Varun

Open Mic:

  • OSGeo Nepal mailing list?

  • OSGeo profile

  • Effective communication in OSGeo Nepal?? (currently very limited to Discord) - Suraj

Events & Opportunity :

  • SOTM Asia - article call

Meeting notes and action items:

  • Campus representative form selection by evaluation committee: Follow up by Tek

  • Data access group meeting: Tek

  • Collaboration with Open Knowledge Nepal: Maybe postponed until we have some data: Suraj

  • GeoTalk, again follow up with Dibikshya: Tek

  • Successfully collaborated with KUCC and looking forward to a panel discussion (10th November) and Field mapping (Potential speaker: ).

  • Follow up in discord: Suraj

  • Poll for new monthly meeting time: Tek

Next month's facilitator :

  • Aayush Chand

Discussion & Questions:

Oct 02, 2024

Facilitator: Shristi Paudel

Note Taking volunteer: Aayush

Attendees: 16

Recap from the previous meeting:

  • Facilitator (Aadesh)

  • Discussions on Campus Representative; Data Capsule; GESAN Collaboration; Roles and Responsibility doc; Tshirts; OSGEO mailing list…

Agendas :

  • Campus representative live this month : Update from Pratikschya

  • Update on data capsule from HDX , Formation of active team to start integrating government datasets : Update from Kshitij

  • Potential collaboration with Open Knowledge Nepal? : Suraj

  • T Shirts are available now , Recaps and notes for the second batch print : Update from aayush , aadesh and kshitij

  • GESAN collaboration for the event of national meet : Global team (Dibikshya)

  • Update on roles and responsibility : Kshitij

  • OSGeo Nepal mailing list ?

  • Should we resume geoseries now ? : Global

  • Should we change the meeting timing to weekends ?

  • Proposal for collaboration with KUCC: Suraj

Open Mic:

  • Communication WG- Gmail access and future posters and social media post - Varun

Events & Opportunity :

  • FOSS4G GLOBAL BRAZIL https://2024.foss4g.org

  • Scholarships month

Meeting notes and action items:

  • Campus representative form to be finalized and opened soon - Dibikshya Shrestha to post on social media

  • Updated data of dengue cases(MOHP) by Nishon in csv format….. (For Data Capsule), more data to be added soon

  • For data capsule from HDX- road, boundary data; government data in CSV/GeoJSON; making standardized data; collaboration with other platforms too for data publish

  • Meeting with Open Knowledge Nepal to be held- Suraj

  • Contact Aadesh for 1st Batch Tshirt, second batch request accepting here: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wxX5PAYGGAxFxGpXHDaPsl5l03pnC0jLCeDYdbjgIuY/edit?usp=sharing ) - comment your name, address and tshirt size

  • GESAN event- still time

  • Roles and Responsibilities Page is ready and published- Kshitij (https://osgeonepal.github.io/Roles%20and%20Responsibilties/roles_and_responsibiltiy/ )

  • OSGeo Nepal mailing list? - next meeting

  • Collaboration with GESAN for geo-talk, first event taking place soon (Tek)

  • New timing for meeting to be decided using a form (Tek)

  • Program KUCC (Kathmandu University, November) - (Webinar, Panel Discussion, Mapping event) - Guidance and collaboration with OSGeo, lead by Suraj

Next month's facilitator :

  • Suraj Thapa

Discussion & Questions:

Sept 04, 2024

Facilitator: Kshitij raj sharma

Note Taking volunteer: Aadesh

Attendees: 14

Recap from the previous meeting:

Agendas :

  • Follow Up on the campus representative idea

  • Follow Up on the data capsule to be released from osgeonepal

  • Buildings

  • Roads

  • Place of interest ( Localizer )

  • GESAN collaboration for the event of national meet

  • Roles and responsibility discussion

  • OSGeo Nepal mailing list ? >> Next

Open Mic:

  • H3 indexing with geospatial data : Kshitij

Events & Opportunity :

  • FOSS4G Asia upcoming

  • FOSS4G Global upcoming.

  • SOTM Global happening this month

Next month's facilitator :

  • Shristi di

Discussion & Questions: