Before you start your journey, make sure you have the following:
+Read the Documentation: Go through the project's README and contributing guidelines to understand the project structure, coding conventions, and how to contribute.
+Register you interest: After you find the issue, register your interest to inform others/maintainers that you are interested in that particular issue.
+git clone https://github.com/your-username/repository.git
+git checkout -b <feature-name>
+git add .
+git commit -m "Add feature or fix"
+git push origin <feature-branch>
+#### Follow Pull request template :
+ - In order to add pull request template simple add ?template=default.md in your PR URL for Eg :
+
https://github.com/osgeonepal/osgeonepal.github.io/compare/event/PR?template=events.md
+Congratulations! You have just contributed to the OSGeoNepal on GitHub.
+ + + + + + +Projects applying to the OSGeo Nepal Community program are asked to:
+Be geospatial
+Have a free license or an open source license.
+OSGeo Community Projects can take part in the incubation committee for guidance on open source use, setting up project governance, promoting the project, and building the project community. We look forward to working with you.
+Formatting & syntax: Pylint, Flake8; Auto-formatter in vs-code (Black).
+Follow docstring conventions as outlined by PEP 257.
+Include code test functions in repo. Some popular choice maybe Pytest, Unitest.
+Must include README.md file in a project directory.
The documentation can be generated via read the docs library.
+Must include installation guide, getting_started & API auto documentation.
Code formatter to use in visual code: Prettier.
+Must include README.md file in the project directory.
Poster By: Aayush Chand
+Date: Jan 14, 2024
+The Coding Party is an event organized by OSGeo Nepal to foster community activity in contributing to open source. It serves as a platform for members to come together, collaborate, and actively engage in coding projects that contribute to the OSGeo Nepal community. Join us in this dynamic and interactive event to make a meaningful impact on the open-source geospatial ecosystem.
+Date and Time: 2023-11-22 Wednesday, 7:00 PM (Nepali Time)
+Coordinator: Tek Kshetri (@iamtekson)
+Poster By: Gaurav Parajuli
+Host: Deepak Pradhan (@varun2948)
+Speaker: Biplov Bhandari, Pradip Khatiwada, Upendra Oli
+Affiliation:
+Biplov - Data & Research Scientist, NASA_SERVIR & The University of Alabama
+Pradip Khatiwada - Executive Director, Youth Innovation Lab
+Upendra Oli - Co-Founder/CEO, NAXA
+The Event was well received by almost 100+ People who learned a lot about geospatial tools and how open-source geospatial tools are being used over the different domains of different companies and are trusted by so many people.
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQ_lgtaIbY
+
Date and Time: 2024-01-26 Friday, 7:00 PM (Nepali Time)
+Poster By: Aayush Chand
+Presentor: Pratichhya Sharma
+Affiliation: VITO (Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek)
+Pratichhya Sharma, a Geomatics Engineer from Nepal, is currently working as a Remote Sensing Data Engineer at the Remote Sensing unit of VITO Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek), Her role involves contributing to the openEO and Terrascope EOplaza projects. Moreover, the Terrascope EOplaza has now evolved into the openEO Algorithm Plaza within the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. +Hence, in this presentation, Pratichhya aims to introduce you to the new Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) and its key elements. The session covers a basic introduction to APIs within the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, Data collections, accessing the Jupyter environment and support through forums, helpdesk, and documentation.
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNXsnjs-AWY
+
Date and Time: 2024-04-26 Friday, 7:00 PM (Nepali Time)
+Coordinator and Moderator: Tek Kshetri
+Poster By: Aayush Chand
+Presentor: Kshitiz Raj Sharma
+Affiliation: Open Source Geospatial Developer, Product Owner (Map Data Access Services) at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOTOSM)
+Kshitij Raj Sharma is a product owner for map data access services at HOTOSM from Nepal, He is a passionate spatial developer with a love for open-source software and open data. His expertise in spatial data and deep interest in mapping led him to explore the potential of AI. Kshitij has been experimenting and advocating for FOSS and contributing to open data initiatives for the past seven years. He is also a maintainer of several open-source tools including Free and open-source AI tools: fAIr, OSM Export Tool, Raw Data API, geojson2osm, OSMSG etc and an integral member of our own OSGEO Nepal.
+https://youtu.be/mdl5fauOIcE
+https://github.com/kshitijrajsharma/handling-large-geospatial-data-foss-session
+ + + + + + +Date and Time: 2024-05-24 Friday, 7:00 PM (Nepali Time)
+Coordinator and Moderator: Tek Kshetri
+Poster By: Aayush Chand
+Presentor: Rohit Gautam
+Affiliation: Geospatial Developer, NAXA
+Rohit Gautam specializes in geospatial software solutions integrating maps, location data, and advanced analytics. He has contributed to popular open-source mapping projects like Leafmap and created OsmGPT, a tool that uses AI to retrieve data from OpenStreetMap through plain language queries. He explores new applications for large language models and generative AI by combining mapping with advanced AI technologies.
+https://youtu.be/7bO8-1sL0hE?si=_Z0BS_AMPBiYmYgo
+Date and Time: 2024-06-07 Friday, 7:00 PM (Nepali Time)
+Moderator: Lalit Bc
+Poster By: Aayush Chand
+Presentor: Tek Kshetri
+Affiliation: Geospatial Developer, NAXA
+Tek Kshetri is a passionate Geospatial expert with over 8 years of hands-on experience in the field. He is a strong advocate for open source, open standards, and open solutions. Driven by his passion for open source, Tek co-founded the OSGeo local chapter in Nepal and actively supported OSGeo's vision and mission.
+His primary research interests lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the Geospatial domain, including natural disaster modelling, Web GIS, and satellite imagery analysis using ML/DL. Tek has developed several open-source packages such as geoserver-rest, GeoTile, pySLD, and leaflet-geoserver-request etc. He also shares his knowledge and insights through his YouTube channel, GeoDev.
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqnl-IWFJEE&ab_channel=OSGeoNepal
+Date and Time: 2024-06-21 Friday, 7:00 PM (Nepali Time)
+Moderator: Tek Kshetri
+Poster By: Aayush Chand
+Presentor: Pratichhya Sharma
+Affiliation: Remote Sensing Data Engineer at VITO
+Pratichhya is a Remote Sensing Data Engineer at VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research). Her research focuses on efficient remote sensing data analysis using cloud-based solutions such as openEO. Currently, she is involved in the Copernicus Dataspace Ecosystem project, where the European Space Agency aims to centralize data and APIs. Within the project, she also tries to highlight the importance of FAIR principles and open science offered by different components of the ecosystem. Additionally she has also been an active member of the OSGeo Nepal community to encourage them in using open-source tools and technologies.
+Start date: May 12, 2024
+End date: May 12, 2024
+This event is designed to bring together open-source geospatial tech enthusiasts of Nepal to contribute to community projects, strengthen connections, share ideas, and motivate each other to keep going.
+Our events include activities such as:
+To discover existing geospatial open source projects within and related initiatives. We plan to organize a mapping party to keep building our mapping strength in OpenStreetMap
+Showcase the existing best practices while helping fellow members get started. We aim to conduct a coding sprint to maintain/contribute to community projects on a broader level
+Connect with individuals with the same mindset and explore potential collaborations
+Participate in hands-on-workshops that promote skill-sharing and promote collaboration
+Note: This description and event plan is subject to change
+Pokhara
+Open source geospatial tech enthusiastic within Nepal
+40
+Currently, we are in talks with various stakeholders. Once, it is finalized will update the information.
+Total Budget: NPR 400,000 ($3000)
+Note: Currency exchange rate of $1 = NRP 133.34 is used
+Welcome to OSGeo Nepal! Here's how you can join our community, subscribe to events, and connect with us on Facebook, Discord, and Google Groups.
+To join OSGeo Nepal, follow these steps:
+Our Discord server is a place where you can chat with other members, ask questions, participate in discussions, explore numerous opportunities, know about upcoming events, working groups, and so on. To join our Discord server:
+Once you've joined, feel free to introduce yourself if you wish to in the #introductions channel and start connecting with other members.
+To stay updated about our events, including workshops, seminars, and meetups, follow these steps:
+Click on the event you're interested in.
+Join Working Groups: + There are various active working groups:
+Training and Collaboration
+Feel free to join in the respective channel on discord whichever best fits for you.
+Our Google Groups mailing list is another way to stay connected and participate in discussions. To join our Google Groups:
+Visit OSGeo Nepal Google Group
+Click on the "Ask to join group" button. + You'll need a Google account to join the group. Once you're a member, you can start sending and receiving emails to stay informed about the latest updates and discussions within the community.
+Joining our Facebook group is another way to connect with fellow members and stay updated on community news and discussions. To join our Facebook group:
+Once your membership is approved, you can begin engaging with other members, participating in discussions on the OSGeo Nepal Facebook group, as well as joining the chat group on Messenger. Facebook group as well chat group on messenger.
+All event recordings are conveniently hosted on our YouTube channel. You can access them here OSGeo Nepal YouTube. To ensure you don't miss any future videos, we encourage you to subscribe and stay connected with us.
+ + + + + + +Facilitator: Tek Bahadur Kshetri.
+Our Plans/Motivation Behind and How to Move Forward:
+Facilitator: Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+Open Mic for Feedback and Discussion.
+How to Fix Agendas?
+Is This the Official OSGeo Chapter? How Does It Work?:
+Nirab Pudasaini.
+Let's Start a Rolling Doc to Track What We Are Doing and How From the Beginning:
+Contact: deepak.pradhan048@gmail.com.
+Rolling Doc Format:
+Facilitators: Deepak Parajuli & Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+Meeting Organization:
+Meeting Date & Time: Tek Kshetri.
+Poster / Social Media Post Coordination — Open Floor:
+Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+Current Imagery Problem and How We Can Solve It:
+Anup Dahal.
+KU Hackfest:
+Outreachy, Facilitator: Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+State of the Map Asia in Bangkok, Thailand:
+State of the Map Asia, Facilitator: Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+FOSS4G Asia in Seoul, Korea:
+Congratulations to Travel Grant Recipients from Nepal: Travel Grant Program.
+Hot Unsummit Applications for 2023-2024:
+Hot OSM Unsummit 2023-2024, Facilitator: Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+Hacktoberfest:
+Chootu Sharma.
+Social Media Coordination:
+Twitter and LinkedIn official account of OSGeo Nepal: Tek (deepak.pradhan048@gmail.com assigned).
+Rolling Doc:
+Record version — Wiki could be good: Pratikschya.
+Meeting Date:
+Rest to be discussed on chat (Except Friday, Saturday, Sunday): Tek Bahadur Kshetri.
+Poster and Social Media Coordination:
+@gaurav.
+KU Hackfest Insights:
+Lack of expertise on GSP.
+Facilitation for Next Month:
+Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+Collection of Interest:
+(Maybe a Google group or Google form for people signup – about privacy): Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+Start Collection for Ideas Sheet:
+(About the objectives we can have as OS Geo): Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+Discuss Current Geospatial Related Problems:
+Tek Kshetri.
+Working Group Introduction:
+How we can cultivate our scope from the problems: @mepratichhya@gmail.com Kshitij Raj Sharma.
+First Web GIS Developers Meet:
+When should it be? What agenda could it have?
+GIS Day Event:
+Lalit.
+RS Dataset, Copernicus:
+Suraj Thapa.
+Github Wiki and Issue:
+Pratichhya, Tek.
+GitHub Page Organization Create:
+Suraj, Tek.
+Open Data Knowledge Portal:
+Pratichhya.
+30 Days Mapping Challenge:
+Lalit, Post on Facebook.
+Remote Sensing Data, Downloading Data Challenge, Sentinel Data, Sentinel Hub API, GEE:
+Pratichhya, Sachin.
+GIS Day Celebration:
+Coordinate: Tek (21, 22 Nov).
+Topics of Interest:
+Lessons learned and start a checklist for any event we organize.
+Time Management and Todo List:
+Kshitij.
+GIS Day Event Question Answers and Link Sharing:
+Q&A and Important Links [GIS Day Celebration 2023]: Tek.
+Launch of Idea Book:
+IDEA BOOK: GEO-INSIGHTS HUB - Idea sharing by everyone.
+Launch of Working Group:
+Engineering Working Group -> Kshitij
+Send Official Expression of Interest to OSGeo Board:
+Kshitij.
+OSGeo Nepal Open for Maintaining OpenSource Projects in Nepal:
+Push to the working group. OSM GPT - Rohit.
+Local Nepal Map Language in Map Libre:
+We will be reviewing the map labels displayed and provide feedback and seek if we can contribute: Issue Link
+How Can We Contribute and Manage the Open Data System in Nepal?
+Data access working group? - Push to working group.
+One Day Hacking Day:
+Discord & Messenger as Primary Communication Channels?
+Start Collecting and Maintaining Open Source Tools on GitHub:
+Start Applying Grants for Physical Meetup of OSGeo Nepal:
+Key point of contact Vicky and Jordy: Kshitij & Aadesh.
+OSM Localizer Maintenance from OSGeo Nepal:
+Discord; Google group to be preferred for larger events.
+OSGEO NEPAL has gone under poll discussions of OSGEO November meeting.
+Choose Note-taking Volunteer for the Meeting
+Recap Action Items from Previous Meeting
+Logo Update:
+Gaurav
+WG Heads to Give Update:
+Kshitij: Engineering Working Group
+Update on Nepali Fonts' Contribution:
+Update on Starting to Contribute on Issues:
+Small informal Discord meet about how to get started. (Video recording may be available, check Discord #engineering channel)
+Future Plans:
+Create a checklist for maintaining open-source repo with guidelines.
+Migrated Repositories for Maintenance:
+OSMGPT (Pending): Rohit
+Aadesh: Coding Party
+You can start contributing.
+Lalit: Training and Sharing Update by Tek Kshetri
+Data Access:
+Select Social Media Coordinator & Give Access to All Social Media
+Collaborations:
+Board Update:
+Follow Up on the data capsule to be released from osgeonepal + a. Buildings + b. Roads + c. Place of interest ( Localizer )
+GESAN collaboration for the event of national meet
+Choose Note-taking volunteer for the meeting: Kshitij volunteered
+Geobharat is also trying to enhance the community in India: Tek reached out
+Tek is doing a session on the introduction to deep learning
+Wipfil is visiting Nepal, let's support as much as we can
+Talks are initiated for OSMLocalizer funding: Kshitij
+Varun Pradhan.
+Facilitation for Next Month:
+Buy a domain for our website. Do we need it?
+Tek
+What are the things that we can get from OSGeo Board?
+Tek
+How did the meet with geochia’s founder and other folks go? Possitive points? Any feedbacks?
+OSGeo Nepal Officially recognized as local chapter of OSGeo
+Reformat our github.io, Add information remove the personal identifier such as didi dai bhai etc in existing posts
+Lets add agenda link in the monthly meetup reminder email too
+Follow up on newsletter writing on becoming local chapter
+Create our local chapter page in OSGeo website
+Continuation of GeoSeries , We had previous episode : What went well ? How frequent should we organize it
+Request for jitsi in official osgeo domain for our activities
+Training and Collaboration | Knowledge sharing session
+Note-Taking Volunteer:
+Royal Silwal.
+Facilitation for Next Month:
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