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IndiaFOSS 2025 Devroom

Open Data

This devroom is scheduled for Day 2 (Sep 21). Starting at 2 PM, in Devroom 1 (Audi 3, in ground floor). For online attendees, the livestream is here


The schedule is:

TimeSessionCumulative Time
14:00 - 14:25From Raw To Relevant: Harnessing Open Data to advance India’s understanding25 min
14:30 - 14:45Empowering Pune with Open Tree Data: A Data-Driven Dashboard for a Cooler, Greener City using FOSS40 min
14:45 - 15:00Maps, Masala & Missed Buses: Bengaluru’s Story Through Open Data55 min
15:00 - 15:15BBMP Tree Census Data Analysis70 min
15:15 - 15:40Let us make accessible Political Archives on the internet: The Constitution, Parliament and News Reporting on Hate95 min
15:45 - 16:00Building great datasets on your mother tongue with Open-Weight models110 min
16:00 - 16:15Introducing India’s Air Quality Index bulletins open data 2015-24125 min
16:15 - 16:40Making Open Data Useful: Lessons from Diagram Chasing150 min
16:45 - 17:00FederatedCode: Using ActivityPub for Open Data Federation165 min



Scope of Sessions

Please submit proposals that focus on "Open Data". For the purposes of this devroom, if your talk is focused at a specific dataset, it must be openly accessible and usable by anyone for any purpose. Talks that are about the open-data tooling are welcome as well, such as about Data journalism, or tools like datasette for example. Research that quantifies the impact of open-data is welcome. For any talk that focuses on software, the software must be published under a FOSS license.

Note: that this is not a Big Data devroom - your dataset could be small and impactful. We are also eager to hear from AI researchers wanting to talk about open datasets being used for their work.


Selection / Review

Approximate order of preference for proposals (first is highest preference)

  1. Research or other impactful work done with open-datasets
  2. Open Dataset publications with an Indian Focus
  3. Open Data tooling*
  4. Meta-proposals on Open Data (such as about Linked Data, or Open Data commons)
  5. Open dataset publications (not necessarily India focused)
  6. All other proposals

* - Talks about generic data tooling (such as postgres, or hadoop) will be considered out of scope. This is somewhat subjective, but we will do our best.


Session Types

We are mainly looking for 25 minute long talks, and 10 minute long flash talks. Current tentative plan is to host 4x25 minute talks, and 5x10 minute lightning talks. Note that while the CFP form says 15 minute lightning talks, we’d prefer to have more crisp talks, so plan accordingly.

Call For Proposals

Submit a proposal

Specify the devroom while proposing your session in the "track" field.

Devroom Managers

  1. Nemo
  2. Thejesh G.N (Datameet)
  3. Kartik Kwatra (How India Lives)
  4. Gaurav Godhwani (CivicDataLab)
  5. Unnati Patel

Making Open Data Useful: Lessons from Diagram Chasing

Talk
Approved
3

Let us make accessible Political Archives on the internet: The Constitution, Parliament and News Reporting on Hate

Talk
Approved
0

FederatedCode: Using ActivityPub for Open Data Federation

Lightning Talk
Approved
2

Empowering Pune with Open Tree Data: A Data-Driven Dashboard for a Cooler, Greener City using FOSS

Lightning Talk
Approved
2

BBMP Tree Census Data Analysis

Lightning Talk
Approved
0

Maps, Masala & Missed Buses: Bengaluru’s Story Through Open Data

Lightning Talk
Approved
5

Introducing India's Air Quality Index bulletins open data 2015-24

Lightning Talk
Approved
0

From Raw To Relevant: Harnessing Open Data to advance India’s understanding

Talk
Approved
0