Kathmandu2013



The plans for Open Data Day celebration in Kathmandu is as below. We are still working on the details.

The events planned for the day are:
 * 1) Presentation - Series of presentations to make people aware of what open data is and how it makese sense in Nepalese context.
 * 2)  Hackathon (Development of application using open data) Register here by 19th Feb, 2013 to participate in Hackathon. We will contact you for further details.
 * 3) Mapathon(Mapping competition) - The World Bank's Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) will conduct Mapathon wherein the participants will collect field data, edit and digitize satellite imagery to create an open and free online map of the the Kathmandu Valley using www.openstreetmap.org.
 * 4) Editathon - Wikimedia Nepal will teach the participants of the event how to edit articles in wikipedia, specially in Nepali script.
 * 5) Mozilla Public Program(B2G (Firefox OS) apps development,Mozilla Webmaker, Localizing Mozilla Products )

There will be stalls from various organizations and institutions who have been related with open data to elaborate more on their role in open data movement. Few of the identified stalls are:
 * 1) Open DRI
 * 2) Open Data Nepal
 * 3) IATI
 * 4) Mozilla Nepal
 * 5) Wikimedia Nepal
 * 6) Open Nepal
 * 7) Students Projects
 * 8) Office of the Company Registrar (OCR)

Venue: Local Development Training Academy, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur

Date: 23rd Feb 2013

Time: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Organizers:


 * YoungInnovations Pvt. Ltd.(YIPL), Jawalakhel, Lalitpur
 * Rinu Maharjan (rinu.maharjan@yipl.com.np)


 * Open DRI, Baluwatar, Kathmandu
 * Mozilla
 * Avash Mulmi (avashmulmi@gmail.com)

Co-organizers:


 * Wikimedia Nepal
 * IOE (Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering)
 * KU (Department of Civil and Geomatics)
 * Nepal Engineering College
 * OSAC
 * FOSS Nepal

Supporter:


 * Aidinfo
 * Worldlink

Participation

The event is free for anyone to participate and you can join us any time during the event as per your convenience. Please feel free to forward invitation to your colleagues and friends as well.

Please contact any of the organizers or co-organizers, if you are interested to participate.Or please list your name here.


 * Prakash Neupane nprkshn@gmail.com
 * Bijaya Kumar Sharma vijayksarp@gmail.com
 * लक्ष्मीप्रसाद खतिवडा lkhatiwada@gmail.com
 * रमेश चन्द्र पाण्डेय (Wikimedia Nepal)prayusn@gmail.com
 * danshing Bohora
 * Ganesh Paudel(Wikimedia Nepal)
 * Hem Pal Shrestha(Wikimedia Nepal)
 * Saroj Dhakal(Wikimedia Nepal)
 * Krish Dulal(Wikimedia Nepal)
 * Srijana Timsina(Wikimedia Nepal)
 * Dipika Khatiwada(Wikimedia Nepal)
 * Gita Paudel (Wikimedia Nepal)
 * Bibhusan Bista (YoungInnovations)
 * Anjesh Tuladhar (YoungInnovations)