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OSGeo Nepal Monthly Meet - November 6, 2024

  • Facilitator: Suraj Thapa
  • Attendees: approx. 10 people
  • Note-Taking Volunteer: Tek Kshetri

Agenda

  1. Campus representative update: Dibikshya and Aayush
  2. 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 a. At least 1 week of volunteering will be required b. Schema finalization for the building and road datasets c. Review the existing published datasets d. Review Government available datasets (Administrative boundary , Populations , no of households - ward wise and P Codes) e. Add Codes to all available datasets f. Prepare to upload at least buildings, Roads(without code), populated places with p codes g. 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)
  3. Geoseries/GeoTalk with GESAN-related update: Dibikshya and Tek
  4. Potential collaboration with Open Knowledge Nepal? : Suraj
  5. Updates on collaboration with KUCC: Suraj
  6. GESAN collaboration for the event of national meet (annual event of club): Global team (Dibikshya)
  7. Should we change the meeting time to weekends?
  8. Communication WG - Gmail access and future posters and social media post - Varun

Notes and Action Items

  1. Campus representative form selection by evaluation committee: Follow up by Tek
  2. Data access group meeting: Tek
  3. Collaboration with Open Knowledge Nepal: Maybe postponed until we have some data: Suraj
  4. GeoTalk, again follow up with Dibikshya: Tek
  5. Successfully collaborated with KUCC and looking forward to a panel discussion (10th November) and Field mapping (Potential speaker: Kshitij Raj Sharma).
  6. Follow up in discord: Suraj
  7. Poll for new monthly meeting time: Tek

Events & Opportunity

  • SOTM Asia - article call

Open Mic

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

Facilitator for Next Month: Aayush Chand