FOSS in Science

Please submit proposals that discuss “FOSS in Science”. Please limit the domain of your proposals to “Pure Science” e.g. Astronomy, Biology, …, Zoology. Meta proposals on “FOSS in Science” are also welcome e.g. roadblocks/challenges regarding FOSS adoption in Science, lessons learnt from training Scientists to adopt FOSS, Open Science.

Selection Criteria

We'll use the following rough order of preference for proposals (first is highest preference)

1. FOSS creation for Science in India
2. Meta-proposals on FOSS in Science from those with hands-on experience
3. Significant* hands-on FOSS usage in a Scientific domain in India
4. FOSS in a Scientific domain coming from the inexperienced
5. All other proposals

* "Significant" refers to anyone with greater than 1-2 years of daily hands-on experience with the FOSS software. In practice, this translates to graduate students being given preference over bachelors/masters students.