Get Involved

We are completely open source, and all we want to do is contribute to our country in the ways that we believe we can the best: through our skills and knowledge in the tech and research fields. If you, just like us, share common sentiments and have a deep love for our country, we'd love to hear from you, whether you're interested in contributing, have questions, or want to get involved in our community.

We don't yet have social media outside of GitHub, so for any inquiries, suggestions, or general feedback, please reach out to us via email at namaste@techfornepal.com.

Contributing via Writing

If you want to send us your writing for the blog, you can do one of the following:

  • Read our CONTRIBUTING.md file on our GitHub repository and follow the instructions.
  • Send us your writing via email (alongside with your name, email, and your photo if you're comfortable with that). We can do the uploading for you. The blog posts will look something like this.

Contributing via Tech & Research

At the moment, it's just me doing this alone, but I believe we have some exceedingly difficult but (what we consider) important projects that we need to work on. I'm someone who's quite focused on AI Research and Development, and therefore, this is me showing my dedication to our country in ways that I think I can be most useful in.

Here are a couple of projects that I am planning to work on, with the help of a few more skilled helping hands:

  • Development of an open-source translation model for English to Nepali. I have been doing my own research on if we have any existing models, and it seems like the ones we have are not good enough. OpenAI's newest GPT-5 is pretty okay at it, but I see some potential in using some open-source models to make them better, perhaps. But there's a whole issue with the amount of data we have to train on, how we're going to generate that data (since we must not use synthetic data due to the fear of cultural context getting lost), whether using an open-source model is even worth it given that Nepali is a low-resource language, and so on. So many exciting things to research and work on.
  • Creation of datasets of different types of local languages for their preservation, and so on. This is something even more challenging since the data for these languages are even more scarce. But it's something that we must do. Languages in our country are dying. It makes me extremely sad.
  • Reading lots of papers on Machine Learning and its applications in our country, and then writing about them in a way that is easy to understand for the general public.
  • And all kinds of projects that we can think of that can help our country.

We might also need some core members who are good at development, design, and so on. If you think you have something to contribute on the tech side, please open a discussion on our GitHub.

If you want to get in touch with me personally, you can do so via email at sumit@sumit.ml.