Sruthi Chandran was elected as the Debian Project Leader in the recent election, becoming the first woman and first Asian to hold this position.

The new term for the project leader starts on April 21, 2026 and will expire on April 20, 2027. The Debian Project Leader (DPL) is the person elected annually by Debian developers to act as the project’s public representative, coordinate community-wide decisions and initiatives, resolve disputes or escalate issues, oversee administrative tasks, and facilitate collaboration across teams.

Explore the Kerala Assembly Election 2026 Portal by the OpenDataKerala Community

This platform brings together curated, constituency-wise election insights for the public, researchers, journalists, and political workers. Built as a community-driven open data initiative, it transforms complex election information into transparent, accessible, and reusable knowledge for everyone.

From structured datasets to interactive maps, the portal offers rich features including voter demographics, party distribution, candidate details, and historical election data from 2011, 2016, and 2021. With powerful filters and intuitive visualizations, users can easily explore trends, compare results, and gain deeper insights—strengthening informed participation in democracy.

WikiConference Kerala is an initiative to support the Wikimedia Ecosystem in Kerala and the Malayalam Language, with support from similar goal-sharing Communities and Organisations. In 2025, the conference will be held on 20 December 2025 at Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA), Thrissur, Kerala, India. The 23rd birthday celebration of Malayalam Wikipedia is also planned with the conference.

Welcome to the Annual Gathering of Kerala’s Mapping Enthusiasts!

Join us for two exciting days filled with learning, sharing, and collaboration as we work together to shape the future of mapping in Kerala.

The Second Edition of State of the Map Kerala and fourth edition of Openstreetmap Kerala Commuity meetup is happening on Nov 15,16 2025 at Department of Geography, Kannur University (Swami Anandatheertha Campus, Payyannur)

We invites you to be part of Open Data Days Kerala 2025, a global celebration of open data.. 🚀

Why Open Data Matters?

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The 4th edition of IndiaFOSS was organized by FOSS United at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru from 7th to 8th, September 2024. OpenDataKerala setup a booth at IndiaFOSS for sharing the community projects and also attracting young talents for contributing to these projects. OpenDataKerala volunteers including Naveen Francis, Jaisen Nedumpala, Ark Arjun, Ranjith Siji, Athul R T, Athul Raj, Jothish Babu explained visitors about the different projects hosted by the community harnessing the power of platforms like Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap. The booth helped the to get visibility on the community contributions that shaped the open data eco-system in Kerala, which exists as a working model for rest of India.

A Stakeholders’ Workshop was organized by Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India on 26th July 2024 at the Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Naveen Francis, representing OpenDataKerala participated in the workshop . He also delivered a talk on OpenStreetMap India and activities of OpenDataKerala and how it helped to develop an opendata eco system in Kerala.

• View/Download the Presentation here PDF Presentation

I received a letter from the Secretary, State Election Commission, Kerala, on 22/06/2024, inviting me to a workshop scheduled to be conducted on 29th June at the headquarters of SEC, in Thiruvananthapuram. The letter stated that, The State Election Commission has decided to go ahead with digital mapping of constituencies and wards of all the LSGIs of the state. In order to carry out the activity at field level, it has been decided to conduct a one day workshop and to finalize its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). All the district level Joint Directors of LSGD, and the State as well as district level Technical Officers of Information Kerala Mission were the other invitees. I have participated in the workshop.

A roundtable discussion on the “Open Data Ecosystem in India” was held on January 5, 2023, from 2:15 PM to 3:30 PM at the AC 8 Boardroom, ISB Hyderabad Campus. The event was powered by the India Data Portal and aimed to bridge the gap between research and practice in public policy dialogues.

Moderator:

• Prof. Ashwini Chhatre - Executive Director, BIPP-ISB

Panelists: The panel featured a diverse group of experts from academia, policy, and practice, including:

It has been six months after India began the world’s largest vaccination drive. The vaccination for public in india started during the 2021 March 2nd week onwards. Open Data Kerala is happy to release the historical Covid-19 vaccination dataset of Kerala state’s and district’s under an open license from the data published on the CoWIN dashboard. The tabular dataset includes the total number of doses of vaccine admistrated till date and the total number of vaccine types admistrated. The dataset is released at Open Data Kerala github page.