Second OpenSpending data party was held in 28 september at GPA building of Smart Samaj, this time we have our guest Friedrich.Our mini spending party start with small introduction and discusion with the new budget and how we can map the budget of 2013/14. From the final discussion we plan to map the money from annex i and annex v and the work begins.
Our guest Friedrich had been working in maping the Nepali budget and was there to help us beginner to map the money from local sources. He taught us a new tool i.e. google drive which helps us to links 2 database as a same time easy to clean the data and most imprtantly easy to use. Our team were divided into two team team of Bobby, Nikesh, Sajesh and Kshitiz did there work strating from scrapping the data from pdf using TabulaPDF, cleaning it and mapping it into openspending Foreign Grant and Loan -and second team team of Manish, Rajesh, Manish, Rajan and Dheer for Service and Functional Details (Including Financing) We begin our work from extracting the data from PDF to CSV format as in first spending party we had same problem cleaning the data which was really pain. Putting our pain aside all team members' worked hard to clean the data and finally at midnight party members finally able to clean data and put in correct format.
Next day, begins with the hot tea all members were busy in correcting the data they miss in early day. After cleaning and correcting all mistake finally we are able to map our annex i and v. (To view in Detail: http://np.okfn.org/2013/09/29/mini-spending-party-in-kathmandu-nepal-budget-201314/) 
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