OKFN meeting

Every Sunday meetup between community members of OKFN (Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal) taken place in smart samaj office at usual time. Today 20th July, 2014 it was special day because our OKFN members Prakash Neupane and Kshitiz khanal were back after attending OKF festival which was held in Germany from July 15-17.

All members are curious to know about the event they attend. Program was started by Prakash Neupane giving small brief about experience he had got from attending the OKF festival. After Prakash, Kshitiz start to tell his story about OKF festival what he has done there, what he learned and how we can initiate those idea here in Nepal. 

Next, members discuss about how members can make OKFN more strong and make openspending nepal to a platform so it can be useful for every local and international person. Prakash raise a question for making openspending nepal as a platform who are our target, who are our data generator and who are our intermediate person. Each individual members had same question and answer so members were divided into four groups with three members in each team.

Group A:	Kshitiz, Rajesh and Rajendra
Group B:	Suroj, Firoj and Pukar
Group C:	Utsav, Mausam and Subham
Group D	Prantik, Surendra and Milan

Data Generator	User	Intermediate	Group
VDC	GOvernment Official	Journalist	A
DDO	Civil society Org.	Our Network	A
M.O.F	GEneral public	NGO, INGO	A
Muncipality	Journalist	Political personal	A
NGO's, INGO's	NGOs. INGOs		A
Government budies	International MEdia		A
Research PErson	Data Enthusiast		A
MOF	GEneral public	Media House	B
DDO	Media House	Journalist	B
VDC	Journalist	Officials of Organization	B
Muncipality	Business Organization		B
NGO, INGo	NGOs. INGOs		B
business Office	Developers		B
DDO	General Public	Journalist	C
VDC	GOvernment Official	NGO, INGO	C
Muncipality	International MEdia	Local OFficer	C
M.O.F	Organizations		C
	Media		C
Muncipality	Public	Media House	D
DDC	GOvernment Official	Reporter	D
VDC	NGOs. INGOs		D
NGOS			D

Second, Group B listed M.O.F, D.D.O, V.D.C, Muncipality, NGO, INGO and Business office as data generator. Equally General public, Media House, Journalist, Business Organization, NGO, INGO, and Developers as user and Media House, Journalist and Officials of Organization as Intermediate.

Third Group C listed D.D.O, V.D.C, Muncipality and M.O.F as Data generator. Similarly General Public, Government Official, International Media, Organization and Media as user. After Journalist, NGO, INGO and local officer as intermediate. 

Finally Group D select Muncipality, D.D.C, V.D.C and N.G.O as data generator. Public, Government Official, NGO and INGO as user plus Media house and reporter as intermediate.  

As soon as the completion of group decision we had our key data generator for openspending Nepal are V.D.C, D.D.O, M.O.F and Municipality office. Likewise our main user are government officers and general public lastly the important part for openspending Nepal are intermediate bodies journalist and media house by whom they can help us to reach our platform and message to general public and government bodies. 

After completion and analyzing result we wrap up for the day and fixed our next meeting same day same time with pre-event data class discussion for Islington College. 

Open Data Day 2014

Open Data Day kickoff in kathmandu, Nepal at GPF building where open community like FOSS Nepal, Wikipedia Nepal, Open Knowledge Nepal, Mozilla Nepal and other community gather in the same place to celebrate it. In this day Mozilla Nepal team visualize the data with the help of thimble, Open Spending Nepal introduce portfolio of openspendingnepal.org like wise wikipedia Nepal was lauching their wiki school in the event. 

This event was taken lead by Wikipedia Nepal with the collaboration of other open community, in open data day we had quite numbers of visitor who are interested about concept of openness. I was in openspending team so I couldn't attend formal discussion but from the visitor we had found they are quite interested about "open community" in Nepal. 

In data day our main focus was to launched our portfolio openspendingnepal.org which will track every Nepal government spending and visualized in the simple matter so it can be understand by normal citizen to data geek. Likewise the data we will be visualizing will be from authentic website and concern department, data will be in readable format and can be used any where. In this website we had added some feature like about comment method where normal citizen can comment about spending and budget they get in their area where it is spend correctly or not so that later government can review these comment making their survey and giving full effort to the development of nation.

Wikipedia education program

A week long Wikipedia education program which was started in 2nd February,2014 was successfully completed at 7th February, 2014. This class was basically focused for the new students (early bird students), class was taken by the Wikipedia driving licence holder from the Wikipedia Education program 1. Srijan Karki, Bishal Bhandari, Manish Dangol and Anupam Poudel had taken lead for class. 

First class was completed by giving short introduction about Wikipedia, local community and how to contribute in the wikipedia in English as well as in local languagae.  Second day was started with making the account of each student in the class and the students who had already completed making account are helping other students to create the account. After successfully making the account in Wikipedia students were taught how to write in Nepali Unicode short introduction about typing in Nepali unicode. As students were not much familiar with the Nepali Unicode keyboard layout it make them really hard to write in Nepali language but still all students became patient and start to learn the layout. In the 3rd day of class, it was about how to make user page and how to work in the sandbox. In the 4th class it was about choosing the topic where Hempal sir help students on it. In 5th class students taught about referencing in the wikipedia as it is crucial part for any writer to back up there writing. In final class students were less in number because in previous class students were told to prepare themselves for the presentation about wikipedia and what they had learn from the class.

Even wikipedia class was for short time it was really helpful for them as they know how to contribute in wikipedia, type in Nepali Unicode, concept of research, referencing making userpage, article and much more. From Wikipedia education program 1 what we learn in 2 months we try to teach everything in a week for new student we feel time was not enough for us still we need to teach more for them alot. Likewise in our 1st education program in this class to we face same problem like could not make more than 6 account at a time, lost connection. Still facing those problem, we finally completed short and fast wikipedia education program to new students. I would like to thanks to our college team, Nepali Wikipedia Community, and friends, for making this event successful. 

13 anniversary wikipedia

It was my first attended anniversary of Wikipedia which was organized by Wikipedia Nepal. Event was organized at Siddhartha Cottage at 4pm, 15 January, 2014. Ganesh Sir, Saroj Sir, Krish Sir, Shrijana Mam and Kirsh sir Mrs (sorry I can't remember her name). Before I reach the venue all was set over there. After some minutes of arrival all other candidates start to join the event. 

Program start with the warm welcome from the Saroj Dhakal. He welcome our honorable guest were Prof. Tulsi Diwas, Sulochana Manandhar Dhital , Lochan lal Amatya and Nama Raj Budhathoki to take the sit. Later he introduce some past events organized by the Wikipedia Nepal which are Wikipedia education program, Women edition, Wiki love monuments. In this event I was only one of the graduate from the Wikipedia Education program which was held in Islington college.

After that ganesh poudel start to give small introduction, than start to teach how to contribute in the Wikipedia.  Now only contribute in Wikipedia he also shows a video created by krish dulal on how to make a new account on Wikipedia. Which was similar and practical that was told by ganesh Sir told.

Next Mr. saroj called on Mr. Krish Dulal and his spouse who were top contributor in Wikipedia Nepal. They share there experience and share their story on how they start to write in Wikipedia ? How they influence to write in Wikipedia? 

Later, Prof Tulsi Diwas gave a inspiring and entertaining presentation. He start to motivate our work because of our hardwork and selfness towards our work also he said "Sharing knowledge is best thing that any human can give to other".  He give us a good example of giving i.e. of witch, In Nepalese society with is considered as a bad people but in context of education witch is greatest teacher because when witch died she transfer her knowledge to her student in this way witch knowledge is still transferring from old generation to today's generation which we also must practice. Education is only things which we can give more and more to others we do not need to be worried because education can not be theft by anyone. 

Next, our another honorable guest Sulochana Mam give a presentation, while giving presentation she created a new account in Wikipedia. In event after making a account she share her one of the books in Wiki books under the license of creative commons and  also she told she will introduce her another book to wiki books as soon it will be ready. 

Coming to next Locan lal Amatya make clear on why open education is important and how wikipedia is helping to the students and every one he also flash back his teaching days where he used to read all the content from wikipedia and next day he teach to the class and students used to get surprise by saying sir knows all. 

Coming to the end of event cake was ready to celebrate the event. There were two cakes Veg and Non Veg since line was long towards the Non Veg Cage I grab a piece of cake from Veg and start to enjoy. 

Finally from this event what I learn was "Giving education is biggest things in the world".


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Mozilla SF_Monument

Finally, today I can see my name listed in the Mozilla SF monuments. Really feels proud today as being a contributor to Mozilla. Now one of my wish will be get snap in front of the SF monument showing my name and taking picture in front of the Mozilla Headquater.  IF you wanna view your name too you can go through here http://people.mozilla.org/SF_Monument/IMAGES/front_top.jpg

My year 2013

Year 2013, was one of the best year I ever had. In year 2013, I got chance to get involve in many local communities like FOSS Nepal, Mozilla Nepal, Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal, Wikipedia Nepal, Arduino Nepal and SQA Nepal. By involving in local community, contributing and learning from these groups are one of the great achievement that I have. 

Being an IT student this communities helps me to boost up my knowledge and get chance to know about new technology and new products which I can not get in before years. 

Talking about my education I will say again a best year because I got scholarship for 2 semester, been selected from college for the Chisapani trek where only 50 students were selected which was one of the awesome trek I ever had even I get sick when we reach to the destination i.e. chisapani. 

Another one of the most memorable event was volunteer from college for the graduation ceremony which was held in Yak and Yeti Hotel. I will say it as one of the greatest and biggest event organized by the college. 

Again one of the best and biggest surprise I ever had was my childhood friend Kiren whom we meet after 15 years thanks to social media which make this possible. I nearly cried when I see her because of happiness

Will be writing more :) !! 

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