UBUNTU 17.10: ARTFUL AARDVARK IS HERE with GNOME as IT'S DEFAULT DESKTOP MANAGER

Bye Bye Unity! I personally never liked you as a Desktop Manager.

 

 

In past recent months, there were rumors about Ubuntu's Unity Desktop Manager which could replaced by some Desktop Manager. And it happened officially in this October Release. We now have Mid Release of UBUNTU Version 17.10 ARTFUL AARDVARK.

Artful Aardvark now uses GNOME as its Default Desktop Manager. LightDM will provide you two GNOME session in Aardvark. 

You can find the release information on Ubuntu's Official Release page. But currently (15th of October) The Ubuntu Wiki is not updated. So in order to download the iso what you can do is browse to your nearby ISO Mirror Provider. Here at Nepal Nepal Telecom provides us with the ISO of every  Ubuntu Releases. So Ubuntu users from Nepal can download Artful Aardvark from the link provided below:

URL: http://ubuntu.ntc.net.np/ubuntureleases/artful/

This is not the only way to upgrade your Ubuntu Distribution. You can also update it from your Settings by Checking for Updates. Update Menu provides you the Official OS Updates from where you can upgrade to Artful Aardvark.

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Medical Data Insight Sprint 2 Retrospective

This Blog and all future blogs with title Medical Data Insight are updates about the very Open Source Project which I announced some weeks ahead via this blog article: Open Source Project "MEDICAL DATA INSIGHT". Open Call for Technical/Non Technical Collaboration.

Even though this is a Open Source Project and maintaining consistent contribution is very rare, I'm following AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES for this project. This is the reason why you are seeing the Updates about our Retrospective and Planning. Following AGILE is actually fun and productive. And I can keep a close track of what's happening with the project. 

Here is the RETROSPECTIVE summary of SPRINT 2. Please go thorough the link and do provide your valuable feedback to us.

MEDICAL DATA INSIGHT SPRINT2 RETROSPECTIVE

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DUCKDUCKGO: GOOGLE TRACKS YOU , WE DON'T ( TAKE BACK YOUR PRIVACY! )

GOOGLE TRACKS YOU , WE DON'T 

DuckDuckGo began as an idea for a better search experience with more instant answers and less spam. With this idea back in Month of February, 2008 DuckDuckGo started with a few servers in a dusty basement. DuckDuckGo was soon announced/introduced to the Hacker News and reddit communities.

DuckDuck TimeLine

Duck gained even more popularity on January, 2009 when they decided to make a bold move and not collect or share any personal information of users'. On January 11, 2011 Duck Team told the world “Google tracks you. We don’t” with a billboard in their backyard. On Febrauary,2012 DuckDuckGo reached a record of 1,000,000 searches a day. Well that is not the only good news, it reached 2,000,000 searches a day in June 2013. Just after 8 days it reached 3,000,000 searches a day. on February 2014 it got 5 Million searches a day which is 1.825 billion searches in a year. On Febraury 2017 15 million searches in a single day (15,106,357 to be exact) was achieved by duck team.

DuckDuck Donations

Being a search engine which don't keep any users' personal information and who don't display add in the browser DuckDuck has been continuously donating several Open Source Projects. Some of the organizations & Projects that DuckDuck helped this year with $225,000 divided equally are: SecureDrop, Freenet, OpenBSD Foundation, CrypTech, Tor Project, Fight for the Future, VeraCrypt, LEAP, GPGTools

All these information are available in its official site: duckduckgo.com/about

Will you ever get these data always available on any other site. Last week when there was a sale on daraaz.com, I searched for like a dozens of smart TVs. And now on my google search everytime I get add of this Smart TV SONY BRAVIA. And this was annoying so I changed by default browser to duckduckgo.

This is a shout out to all those who care about privacy, who don't want to be a puppet of searchengine like google who crawls not only what we search but also tracks about every searches, sites, location, online shopping etc.

HOW TO SPREAD THE WORD?

• Use #ComeToTheDuckSide hashtag in your social networking post
• Change your default search engine to DuckDuckGo
• You can find an extension in for your browser. install this for your Chrome Browser

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MEDICAL DATA INSIGHT ITERATION 1 RETROSPECTIVE

Today's blog is to update the news and updates that has happened on Open Source Project MEDICAL DATA INSIGHT side. I'm currently contributing/mentoring this project "Medical Data Insight". If you haven't known about MDI then please go through this announcement that I've made on my previous blog:

Open Source Project "MEDICAL DATA INSIGHT". Open Call for Technical/Non Technical Collaboration

Today we ended our first Iteration and we could do some tasks on this project. Please go through the official project's website for detailed report.

MDI SPRINT 1 RETROSPECTIVE

GitHub: Create your Awesome Resume with resume.github.io

Today's blog is informative as well as interesting. It's a fun post which I found today on Github. While I was googling several ways of creating resumes, I found this site resume.github.io which generates your resume based upon your contribution on github. 

Interesting part about this resume generating site is that on  6 Feb, 2011 Creator of jQuery John Resig tweeted something about Github Commit logs over a resume: 

When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.

— John Resig (@jeresig) February 6, 2011

After this David Coallier started a project GITHUB RESUME GENERATOR on the same day 6 Feb, 2011.

resume.github.io

All you need to do is enter your github username and press enter. It will automatically crawl to your repository and creates a resume for you. Resume covers following section:

• Name
• GitHub Profile
• Website
• Languages
• Popular Repositories
• Contributions
• Organizations

These info are all you need to let people know what kind of developer you are. Rather than the long page CV this GitHub resume will help define your skills, community participation in open source projects as well as contribution and level of expertise which tech companies are always searching for.

So from now on, if a company asks for your resume provide them your github resume :)

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Kathmandu Living Labs To Host STATE OF THE MAP ASIA 2017 Conference

Source: State of the map ASIA

A two days conference on State of Open Map Data  is going to be organized here at Nepal, this September 23-24,2017. This is the Third State of the Map Conference which is happening in ASIA specifically in Nepal. Last year the STATE OF THE MAP was conducted at Brussels, Belgium. This year Kathmandu Living Labs, an emerging Tech Organization which works rigorously on Geographical Data, Maps and various areas of Open Data is hosting the event. Along with Kathmandu Living Labs OSM Community of Nepal is also a Co-Host of this event.

Rob Savoye, a pioneering Open Source Contributor since the very beginning of Open Source Movement will be conducting workshop on Mapping via Open Street Map. State of the Map Asia is an event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. Enjoy two days in Nepal with talks, discussions, workshops, and networking all around the free and open map of the world. 

Please go through the details about the Conference here at STATE OF THE MAP ASIA 2017

Open Source Project "MEDICAL DATA INSIGHT". Open Call for Technical/Non Technical Collaboration

Nepal Medical Data Visualization( NMDV)

Back in 2015 me with my teammates Shradha, Rizu and Bishwas decided to do a project which will focus on Health Sector of Nepal. This was the last semester project that we would be doing back then. So we named our project as "Nepal Medical Data Visualization". Project was supervised by Dr. Rabindra Bista. Project was developed usign PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML and CSS. I committed the code on github and didn't even look back for a long time.

Last year, I joined Verscend Technologies via Internship program. Verscend  is a company that works on Health Care Information/Data of the United States. My semester project was a key which get me through the internship Program. All credit goes to Rabindra Sir. While working on a Healthcare Informatics Company I always wanted to rewrite my Project and make it meaningful. I wanted to make it open source and wanted to see it implemented in the community someday in future. This is when Medical Data Insight happened.

The Project Title

NMDV this title was suitable and descriptive but it had Nepal with it. I thought let's not bound Open Source Project within a geographical boundary and removed word Nepal. Now it was Medical Data Visualization, but still I was not satisfied with the name specially the word 'Visualization'. The word 'Insight' was in my mind and I found it more promising and attractive than Visualization. Because as per my understanding Visualizing something was just focusing on the data representation. But Insight was something vast. It not only meant focusing on the represented data but also unfold the hidden Information/insight among the data. Being insightful also means understanding a subject from diverse analysis and trying to find meaning of unanswered logic . This was how the Project got it's Title "MEDICAL DATA INSIGHT"   

Open Sourcing Medical Data Insight

In Our Open Source Community we talk about open sourcing not only the Product but also the process. So this was a golden opportunity for this project to Open Source it's process as well as the source code as product. Being in its initial phase, open sourcing the process helps contributors across the globe to:

• Understand the Product/
• Familiarize with the Cross Culture Working Environment of a Open Source Project 
• Contribute in Projects Core Architecture.
• Comment on the designs of overall interface.
• and many more...

I started breaking the branches of huge tree and started to make a pack of small sticks. Tree, branches, sticks sounds funny, isn't it?. Actually I started breaking the concept of the project into small peaces. And peace by peace, from creating a large feature to User stories I created number of small tasks. Having good experience of Agile Software Development from Verscend, I implemented it by creating a Board at Waffle to maintain all those issues, features, bugs, pull requests, and everything that comes during software development.

And this is how the Userstory, Tasks, Features and Bugs are listed here at Waffle.

Waffle: MDI

In addition to the userstories and a Waffle Board I've created Milestones in GitHub which looks like this:

GitHub Milestones: Medical Data Insight

Current Status of Project

Currently This project is in it's beginner level. After I deprecated the OLD PHP CODE and created a tag, those PHP code base are cleaned from the master branch. Many things are still to be done regarding this projects.

Interesting thing about this Project is that I researched a lot of frameworks and languages in order to decide one for formally moving ahead. Currently AngularJs and ElectronJs are two such promising Fronend Frameworks which I prefer for this Project. So there are always room for improvements are everyone are welcome to contribute, comment and collaborate. 

• Many things like the Backend Development Language, Database, Design, are yet to be decided.
• A team of core contributors and maintainers are yet to be decided.

• CODE_OF_CONDUCT  is currently adapted from GitHub which is also to be discussed and updated.
• CONTRIBUTING GUIDELINES are also to be decided.

Final Words

I want to do a open source project to have an experience of working with cross-cultural expertise across the globe and finally contribute/give back to the community.

If anybody out there is interested in contributing a couple of hours every week for a right cause, please send me an email at: sigdelsanjog@gmail.om or admin@techjhola.com. Or you can also join our Slack Channel: medicaldatainsight.slack.com Walking a long road all alone is hard and sometimes not motivating So I'm optimistic about getting huge response from all of you open minded People.

 Also if you think that your friend might get interested  to contribute , please share this request to him/her.

Namaste.

Project Moderator, Medical Data Insight

FOSS COMMUNITY KAVRE INITIATION DURING SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY 2017 CELEBRATION

This SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY, Free and Open Source Volunteers from Kavre initiated FOSS COMMUNITY KAVRE during the SFD2017 Celebration event organized by Kathmandu University Open Source Community. FOSS KAVRE was initiated to decentralize the FOSS related activities from Valley to remote areas of Kavre. Free and Open Source Software Community Kavre is one out of thousands Open Source Community which works on sharing Open Source Philosophy. It's a group of Open Source Enthusiast from Kavre who want to spread Open Knowledge to the Community.

Following are the objectives behind initiating Open Source Community here at Kavre:

• Provide Training, Workshops and Tutorials.
• Interact with new People, Participate in Events organized by other Communities, help solve problems, Bring Openness among Volunteers.
• Organize MeetUp, Open Source Conference, Linux Talks.
• Make Massive Use of Open Source Technologies in every possible areas of Kavre (Health, Education, Business, Governmental Organizations)
• Publish Magazine, Blogs Articles about Open Source Technologies to make the citizens aware about FOSS and its impact in community.
• Explore resources to make the Community Sustain economically in a long run.

Logo Designed: Ishan Dongol

Ongoing Projects

1. ReWrite: A running web application for Conducting Conferences built using Angular Framework( A JavaScript Framework . This can be helpful while exploring your semester projects ideas and tools.
2. Medical Data Insight: Back then a Semester Project "Nepal Medical Data Visualization" of one of the volunteer Sanjog Sigdel supervised by Dr. Rabindra Bista is now known as "Medical Data Visualization". It is an ongoing project which aims to develop a Full Framework/Platform for Adding Medical records and also built insight from the data.

Training

1. How to build static GitHub Pages?
   This training was provided on a workshop during the very day of initiation at Kathmandu University.
2. Software Development and Project Development with GitHub
   This was also planned to be conducted on Software Freedom Day. But considering the knowledge base of participants on basic git functionalities being very low this workshop is postponed for some other time. We are planning to conduct some git Workshop and make them familiar with the Git Operations. Then we will conduct further training.

FOSS KAVRE and other FOSS Communities

As both communities belong from same place, FOSS KAVRE and KUOSC will support eachother in conducting events. FOSS KAVRE will seek technical expertise from KUOSC for workshops. KUOSC will seek new areas to spread open source activities in the local community with the help of FOSS KAVRE. We are Open Source Communities so we will not only be sharing and seeking expertise as well as resource from KUOSC. But we will seek help and also help others from all around the globe.

What's Next?

More Training and workshop to fulfill the Objectives as well as make an impact in the community at the same time. Fill more boxes below with events that we will conduct soon.

SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY 2017 CELEBRATION IN NEPAL BY KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY

Kathmandu University Open Source Community an autonomous wing of Kathmandu University Computer Club (KUCC), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University(KU) celebrated Software Freedom Day (SFD) at Kathmandu University. The celebration of SFD eve was also held in Kathmandu University, on 15th September, 2017.

This Software Freedom Day is important to the Volunteers of KUOSC and also to University too because it is first ever SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY organized here at KU. On top of that Chief Guest Mr. Rob Savoye a self-employed consultant & contractor with massive experience in designing, programming from Colorado U.S.A added charm to the event. Rob develops and manages engineering projects, especially GNU/Linux projects, embedded systems and every imaginable Open Source Software. Rob talked about his massive contribution in open source. It was an honor to have such a legend of Open Source Movement, who carry a long history way back to the foundation of open source society. He has been contributing to the society for more than 40 years.

Whole event was hosted by Master of Ceremony Ms. Rajshree Rai, Vice President, Kathmandu University Computer Club(2017-18) Program began with talk program  on FOSS MOVEMENT in NEPAL by Sanjog Sigdel. He highlighted current activities of Open Source Projects and open communities existing in Nepal. Mr. Sigdel an Open Source Activist from Kavre did the Initiation of FOSS COMMUNITY KAVRE. 

Free and Open Source Software Community Kavre is one out of thousands Open Source Community which works on sharing Open Source Philosophy. We are a group of Open Source Enthusiast from Kavre who want to spread Open Knowledge to the Community.You can find more about FOSS KAVRE here.

Mr. Sushil Shrestha, Assistant Professor, working on Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) and Digital Research Lab of Kathmandu University talked about the importance and the success story of MOOC. Mr. Manoj Shakya, Assistant Professor of Kathmandu University honored Rob representing Kathmandu University and KUOSC. Continued with the appreciation to the distinguished guest Mr. Shakya shared his experience on Open Source Software and highlighted importance of Open Data.

Nikesh Balami, Open Source Activist from Open Knowledge Nepal shared his words and experience in open knowledge and open data. Moreover, he expressed the present scenario of open data in Nepal, projects that Open Knowledge Nepal has been doing to improve the status of Open Data in Nepal. He also presented Open Data handbook localized in Nepali Version to the audience.

Program continued  further with Wikipedia Editathon where volunteers and participants edited/created Nepali Articles in Wikipedia dashboard. Mr. Saroj Dhakal from Wikipedia Nepal shared his words about editathon and Wikipedia. Sajog Sigdel conducted a workshop on Creating Static Github Pages and Basics Git functionalities.

Similarly, Shubham Josh, Coordinator of Kathmandu University Open Source Community talked about open source and FOSS Nepal. Pratit Raj Giri conducted a workshop on Open Street Mapping. He highlighted the importance and advantages of Open Data Mapping with Open Street Mapping. Different open source related stickers were distributed and the environment there was OPEN. 

Program had a total participants of 45 individuals. Participants included students, teachers, Open Source Practitioners, Software Engineers, Network Security Enthusiasts. Program included other interactive activities like Porter Presentation, Survey and Questionnaires, Photo Sessions. Volunteers were excited to have successfully organized SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEPAL. And are more dedicated/excited to conduct same event next year with many exciting speakers and workshops.

Quora Q&A: Does Anyone Actually Use Desktop Linux?

After a long time I logged in to Quora and while I was going through the Q&As which were displayed on my Screen I saw this question Does Anyone Actually Use Desktop Linux? Being an Open Source Enthusiast and also a Technical Volunteer for Help Nepal Network's E-Library Project, I believed this question needs a solid answer. Well while I saw the question it already had 100+ answers, But I still took chance to answer my experience about Desktop Linux.
And here is my answer:

Why Not?

Edubuntu installed on KU Lab for Training E-LIBRARY Volunteers

Here at Kathmandu University, Nepal our computer lab's hundreds of Desktop user FEDORA and Ubuntu. I can happily say that everyone here at University is familiar about OpenSource Technologies

We volunteers from Kathmandu University Open Source Community have established E-Library using Edubuntu(A UBUNTU Distribution for Educational Purpose).

The library is set up using LTSP Package. In a school there are one one server and 10clients. The E-Library is used by students from Class one to 8. Which is on average 200students from one school use those computers daily. And till the date, there are almost 30+E-Libraries in Nepal. Project is a joint collaboration of HELP NEPAL NETWORK and DoCSE, KU with the Moto ONE E-LIBRARY PER DISTRICT

Also read the Update here

How to Hide/Exclude Certain Files from Sidebar in Visual Studio Code?

Currently I'm learning Angular2 and building a test project using Visual Studio Code.  VSCode is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.

So what happens while working on Angular2 Project is that we write TypeScript codes. The tsc: typescript compiler generates respective JavaScript Code for our typescript codes. For this single process there are 3 files created which are listed below:

For a typescript file: event-details.component.ts, typescript compiler creates event-details.component.js.map and event-details.component.js. This is two additional files for a single components. Imagine an application with 20 components and 10 services, your side bar will be full of files. Because of similar names you cannot locate your required files easily. 

So in Visual Studio Code, here is how you Hide/Exclude certain files from your sidebar:

1. Goto File
2. Click Preferences
3. Click Settings
   You will see the user Settings and Workspace Settings in your Visual Studio Code Text Editor.
4. In your text editor add following code:
   "files.exclude": { "**/**.js.**" : true, "**/**.js": true, "**/**-lock.**": true } 

Above code listed every file with extension .js , js.** (example: *.js.map), *-lock.*(example:config-lock.json) will be hidden from sidepanel.

This small tips will help us refine our sidepanel and also vase much time in finding the right file we want

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 Free. Open source. Runs everywhere.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtime. Visual Studio Code is one of the greatest committed open source project on Github by Microsoft. 

Owner: Microsoft

Github: vscode

Why Visual Studio Code?

VS CODE provides development environment for most of the programming languages which follow Open Specification (technical standard) known as Common Language Insfastructure(CLI) 

VSCode is lightweight. Comparing it with the Visual Studio it has many pros which promises developers to dive into it.

Visual Studio	2015(V14.0)	CODE
Software Size	1.9GB	54MB

Visual studio Code consists of three components:

1. Side Panel
   Here we can see the tree structure of your project. We see a search icon where we can perform advance search in files as well as folders. Visual Studio has integrated Git where we see the change in file immediately. We can perform every git operation that can be done from other git application. We can browse extensions and download from side panel too.
2. Text Editor
   This is where you do all the coding stuffs. The color customization and Theme Selection from VSCode is pretty straight forward. You can split the screen and see multiple text editors.
3. Terminal
   Here we build and run the project. Once we run the program from terminal it fetches and downloads all the necessary referenced library online while building the project.

You can perform all other activities that you do from Visual Studio 2013, 15, 17 and other IDEs.

This can be a major alternative of Visual Studio IDEs where you need to buy the licence key and also need ore space and memory to execute it. VS CODE mimics the Command Line Interface implementation of developing and deploying a project. So this could be a good tool for software development.  

Because it's free   . Free as in you can view and customize the source code. Do you believe that Microsoft launched a software for free? Means it's worth it.

I use visual studio code for web app development in ASP.NET MVC Framework, Angular2. 

Explore more about Visual Studio Code.

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MICROSOFT AND OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

Have you ever thought Microsoft a company who sells it's products like Windows OS, Visual Studio, Azure and all much more in hundreds and thousands of dollars would produce something for free? At Microsoft as a matter of fact even the Sticky Note is not free.😝

I never imagined Microsoft would launch a product and not license it as their Proprietary Asset. Neither I had never imagined it would invest its time and money on Free and Open Source Technologies. But it surprised the whole world in last few years. If you have observed the milestone of Microsoft, you would be surprised as I'm these days. Not only Microsoft was interested on Open Source Technologies in past couple of years but also it Launched a handful of Tools and made them Open Source.

Sounds like I'm exaggerating, but below are some of the Tools and technologies launched by Microsoft as Open Source. This will also leave you with a question mark "why is such a huge company  so much interested on FOSS and what would be the future surprises for Open Source Enthusiasts and the Microsoft Lovers.

.NET Core

Microsoft released .NET Core as an open source product on November 12, 2014. This was a huge day for .NET migrating from its Proprietary circle to the open source. The runtime as well as the framework libraries were also made open source together with .NET Core.

.NET Core is a modular development stack that is the foundation of all future .NET platforms. It’s already used by ASP.NET 5 and .NET Native.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring. It is also customizable, so users can change the editor's theme, keyboard shortcuts, and preferences.

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code on November 18, 2015. And to highlight some of the surprising facts, Recently Microsoft is the one with Highest Commit on GitHub. This fact will be surprising to the Open Source Lovers and also to the Microsoft developer community

PowerShell

PowerShell(including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.

18 August, 2016 Microsoft announced some of the components of PowerShell as Open Source.

Black Duck Integration with Visual Studio

Black Duck are popular for development of automated open-source code management tools. It's on the news that Microsoft is integrating Black Duck's Hub program with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (TS), formerly Visual Studio Online, and Team Foundation Server (TFS).

I Just highlighted some of the Open Source Tools that was developed by Microsoft. With these findings that I worked on I'm interested in the milestones of Microsoft. I want to explore what is it going to release next in near future. Also how will it contribute to the Open Source Community and at the same time handle its Proprietary product and huge customer base. So I think I should also write some more blogs on each of these open source tools and all curiosities I have. Being an Open Source Enthusiast, it would be awesome to compare and contrast the features available in these tools. Also I can get an idea on the motive behind Microsoft's investment to the Open Source Tools. 

Stay Tuned for some more blogs.

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KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY: OPEN DATA DAY CELEBRATION BY KUOSC

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, Nepal, celebrated International Open Data Day in Kathmandu University Central Campus, Dhulikhel on 4^th March, 2017. The event was organized by Kathmandu University Open Source Community(KUOSC) an autonomous wing of Kathmandu University Computer Club in order to mark, promote and encourage use of Open Data in Nepal. Open Data Day is celebrated every year throughout the world to bring together the people and organizations based on shared enthusiasm for open data.

During the talk program Volunteers from KUOSC shared their ideas and experience on Open Source Technology and use of Open Data. Pratit Raj Giri explained the motive of the program. He further talked about what is open data and the state of open data in Nepal. Rishi Raj Gautam  shared about how could we contribute for Open Data in Nepal. Sandeep Neupane shared his idea and experience from the survey he had done in Kavre district related to Open Data. He shared his experiences and findings on the program. Mahesh kafle new open source enthusiast of KUOSC, talked about how to get involved in open data. He shared his experience from the Recent Open Data Hackathon that was organized in the Kathmandu. Sanjog Sigdel also added few points on contributing to Open Source Community and Open Data. He also talked about his contribution on Open Street Mapping, Ubuntu Localization and Wikipedia at the end of the program.

Everyone who attended the program came to a conclusion to make a commitment to contribute for Open Data.They also did some brainstorming and came up with an idea of Hackathon within the University to promote Open Source Technologies. They came to a conclusion that this Hackathon could identify possibilities of doing a long term Open Source Project which could be continued by their juniors.

In different part of country, Open Source Enthusiasts and Open Hacktivists are celebrating OPEN DATA DAY. You can find the hash tag #OpenDataDay trending on  Social Networking Sites.

Here are some glimps of today's wonderful event:

Open Data Day 2017

Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analysis using open data. It is an effort to show support and encourage the adoption of open data policies by worlds local, regional and national government.

Open data is yearly event based on shared enthusiasm for open data since 2010. This year also with the same enthusiasm we are celebrating Open Data Day on March 4, 2017. Last year 262 cities celebrated open data day. During this event, participants are able to grab an opportunity to share their experiences with open data, open map, future projects, etc.

Why is it celebrated in Kathmandu, Nepal?

Kathmandu is one among many cities around the world taking part in international movement on open data to create awareness of what and how it can be greater use to government and to general public. With the communities like Open Nepal, Kathmandu Living Labs, Open Knowledge Foundation, FOSS Nepal, Mozilla Nepal, Wikimedia Nepal; open data has now established an important concept and these communities played a role in promoting transparency, accountability and citizen engagement in Nepal.

What will happen during Open Data Day in 2017 in Kathmandu?

Open Data Day is all about motivating data enthusiasts around the world. Following the same spirit Open Data Day 2017- Kathmandu will provide opportunities for people to explore and collaborate on open data for solving issues regarding public procurement and health in Nepal. They are organizing a various programs such as:

Thematic presentation and Panel Discussion

Lightning talk session

Hackathon showcase ( P. S. this event has began from 25th February, 2017)

Who can participate?

Open Data Day 2017 is for everyone. Anyone with an interest in open data , open map, transparency, accountability and civics can participate. Participation is free of cost BUT they must come with passion to learn, share and collaborate.

Source:

opennepal