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OSGeo Nepal Meeting - January 3, 2024

  • Facilitator: Deepak Pradhan (Varun)
  • Attendees: Approx 13

Agendas

  1. Choose Note-taking Volunteer for the Meeting

  2. Recap Action Items from Previous Meeting

  3. Logo Update:

  4. Gaurav

  5. WG Heads to Give Update:

  6. Kshitij: Engineering Working Group

  7. Update on Nepali Fonts' Contribution:

  8. Nepali Fonts Contribution Link
  9. Now it solves the space problem and can be used with MapLibre native.

  10. Example Link

  11. Update on Starting to Contribute on Issues:

  12. Contribution Link
  13. First phase of issues are ready.

  14. Small informal Discord meet about how to get started. (Video recording may be available, check Discord #engineering channel)

  15. Future Plans:

  16. Grab more contributions on rolling doc, migrate it completely, and start contribution on a coding party.

  17. Create a checklist for maintaining open-source repo with guidelines.

  18. Migrated Repositories for Maintenance:

  19. GeoTile: Python library for tiling geographic raster data (e.g., Tiff, etc.)
  20. OSM Localizer (Pending): Aadesh
  21. OSMSG (Pending): Kshitij

  22. OSMGPT (Pending): Rohit

  23. Aadesh: Coding Party

  24. Started a thread in Discord for the repo to work on and with relevant issues.

  25. You can start contributing.

  26. Lalit: Training and Sharing Update by Tek Kshetri

    • Collaboration with NGES (Nepal Geomatics Engineering Students Society).

  27. Data Access:

    • Maybe? Shristi

  28. Select Social Media Coordinator & Give Access to All Social Media

  29. Collaborations:

    • We have collaboration with NGESS and currently collaborating with Geoseries talk.

  30. Board Update:

Open Mic

  1. Duck DB: The Game Changer Disk Based Database - Kshitij
  2. Discord Quick Walkthrough: Varun

Events & Opportunity

  • Geopython 2024 abstract submission: Jan 15; Travel grant: Jan 31 - Tek

Notes

  • Render of Nepali font (MapLibre)
  • Kshitij to give Aadesh access in Github
  • Aadesh to coordinate coding party (Saturday 6th, 2024, 7-8 PM)
  • Official recognition from OSGEO, space for website hosting, and fund support
  • Kshitij and Aadesh to manage engineering contributions for next month
  • Tek and Varun to contribute and compile standards to adopt in OSGEO NEPAL
  • Pratikchya to take initiative in collaboration and handle queries raised in training and collaboration along with Lalit and Tek
  • Shristi and Nishon to start with data access working group and start an action plan
  • Varun to handle social media posts, Communication Lead
  • Next month facilitator: Rohit
  • Note-taking volunteer: Ayush Adhikari