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OSGeo Nepal General Meeting - August 01, 2025

August 1, 2025

Facilitator: Varun Pradhan

Note Taking volunteer: Varun Pradhan

Attendees:

Recap from the previous meeting:

  • Osm localizer OSMSG kshitij and aadesh funding proposal discord update.

  • Up until next meeting we might get some update.

  • Osmsg and localizer funding proposal sent localizer 6k and osmsg

  • Rabina and some other people reviewed it.

  • Aayush video Update still in processing (Voice over need to add)

  • Do recommend to talk with people around conference and reach out without hesitation

  • SOTM US Update:-

Agendas

  • Funding Proposal Submitted by Aadesh and Kshitij

  • Common slides and video Update by Dibikshya and Aayush

  • Manish bhai / Pratikchyaa common slide update

  • SOTM USA experience sharing by Varun dai

  • Living planet symposium

Open Mic

Start contributing to open source as a beginner !

  • Git

  • Branch

  • Remote

  • Commit

  • Push

Upcoming Events and Opportunities

FOSS4G UK Coming Up – Still accepting talks

FOSS4G Europe Coming Up – Anyone going ?

Early bird tickets are available for the FOSS4G Auckland

Meeting notes and action items:

  • Osm localizer OSMSG kshitij and aadesh funding proposal discord update.

  • Up until next meeting we might get some update.

  • Osmsg and locaizer funding proposal sent localizer 6k and osm sg

  • Rabina and some other people reviewed it.

  • Aayush video Update still in processing

  • Do recommend to talk with people around conference and reach out without hesitation

  • SOTM US Update:-

  • Different job offers for SOTM US

  • Travel grant is helpful if you get it and it is important to know lot of OSM people

  • Someone pitched OSM journey and it was very motivating and all talks don’t need to be technical

  • A highschool guy was pitching basic about OSM road mapping with his little experience

  • People reach out if the topic is a familiar topic with them or hot topic around globally

  • Better SEO optimized for different opensource conference , it helps you to get searched around google and others.

  • Living planet Symposium -LPS (Europe mostly but is a world conference - Remote Sensing)

  • Mathies Mohr - MoreGeo Company name -Metadata ,stac , jar - developer ,Founder, Muenster

  • Mostly involved in opensource project.

  • Canopy map released, free data launch update from the conference

  • Algorithm sharing from pratichya

  • Master or postdoc apply

  • Remote sensing open data

  • Platform to upload remote sensing algorithm,

  • Earthcode -ongoing project included different opensource tools - Jupyter GIS

  • Planet data release - methane emission

  • Google earth engine booth in the conference

  • Very good for networking around and volunteering

  • Good for people interested in remote sensing and their algorithms

  • Copernicus Discussion happens mostly

  • AGU American Geoscience Union - https://www.agu.org/

  • AGU journal, if you wanna publish papers

  • Young career scientist - volunteer participation

  • Grant

  • Opengeo hub summer school - Netherland this year - every year summer school with funding - but maybe already closed -

  • AGIT - https://agit.at/en/ - Salzburg conference

  • FOSSDEM - Every february 1-2 - Brussels - https://fosdem.org/2025/

  • Big Data in Space - https://www.bigdatafromspace2025.org/

Next month Open Mic:

Next month's facilitator : Ishan Regmi

Discussion & Questions: