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IndiaFOSS 2025 Devroom

FOSS in Science

This devroom is scheduled for Day 2 (Sep 21). Starting at 10 AM, in Devroom 1 (Audi 3, in ground floor) For online attendees, the livestream is here


The schedule is:

TimeSessionCumulative Time
10:00-10:25KuttyPy : A no Cost transformation of the ubiquitous Arduino into an affordable data acquisition system for STEM25 min
10:25-10:35Understanding API Dispatching in Scientific Python ecosystem35 min
10:35-10:45Zarr: Cloud-optimised, N-dimensional, typed array storage45 min
10:45-10:55Assessing the State of India’s Birds using FOSS55 min
10:55-11:05The Array API Standard: One ring to rule them all65 min
11:05-11:30Collaborative CAD & GIS in JupyterLab90 min
11:30-11:45Break 15 mins105 min
11:45-11:55Formalizing Mathematics and Scientific Computing with an Open-Source Theorem Prover115 min
11:55-12:20Empowering Open Science with Scalable Interactive Computing Environments in India140 min
12:20-12:30Beyond the smokescreen: interactive in-browser FOSS tools for science communication and evidence-based environmental policy150 min
12:30-12:40The Observability of Everything: Instrumenting Science with DevOps Tools160 min
12:40-12:50Breaking into the Black Box: Making LLMs Transparent for Science170 min
12:50-13:00Signal Over Noise: Benchmarking Time Series Models with sktime180 min



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


  1. "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.


Call For Proposals

Submit a proposal

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

Devroom Managers

  1. Sai Rahul Poruri
  2. Jaidev Deshpande
  3. Aditi Juneja
  4. Agriya Khetarpal

Signal Over Noise: Benchmarking Time Series Models with sktime

Lightning Talk
Approved
7

Zarr: Cloud-optimised, N-dimensional, typed array storage

Lightning Talk
Approved
2

Assessing the State of India's Birds using FOSS

Lightning Talk
Approved
3

Empowering Open Science with Scalable Interactive Computing Environments in India

Talk
Approved
1

KuttyPy : A no Cost transformation of the ubiquitous Arduino into an affordable data acquisition system for STEM

Talk
Approved
1

Collaborative CAD & GIS in JupyterLab

Talk
Approved
16

The Array API Standard: One ring to rule them all.

Lightning Talk
Approved
3

Breaking into the Black Box: Making LLMs Transparent for Science

Lightning Talk
Approved
4

Beyond the smokescreen: interactive in-browser FOSS tools for science communication and evidence-based environmental policy

Lightning Talk
Approved
5

Understanding API Dispatching in Scientific Python ecosystem

Lightning Talk
Approved
1

The Observability of Everything: Instrumenting Science with DevOps Tools

Lightning Talk
Approved
4

Formalizing Mathematics and Scientific Computing with an Open-Source Theorem Prover

Lightning Talk
Approved
1