FOSS for scientists devroom at FOSDEM 2013
Dear members of the Numerical Python ecosystem (with apologies for cross-postings), A day-long session ("devroom") on Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) for scientists will be held during the next FOSDEM conference, Brussels, 2-3 February 2013 (http://fosdem.org/2013). We aim at having a dozen or two short talks introducing projects, advertising brand new features of established tools, discussing issues relevant to the development of software for scientific computing, and touching on the interdependence of FLOSS and open science. You can find more info on the call for talks at: http://slayoo.github.com/fosdem2013/ The deadline for sending talk proposals is December 16th 2012. Please send your submissions or comments to: foss4scientists-devroom@lists.fosdem.org Please do forward this message to anyone potentially interested. Please also let us know if you have any suggestions for what would you like to hear about in the devroom. Looking forward to meeting you in Brussels. Thanks in advance. The conveners, Sylwester Arabas, Juan Antonio AƱel, Christos Siopis P.S. There are open calls for main-track talks, lightning talks, and stands at FOSDEM as well, see: http://fosdem.org/2013/ -------------- I would like to add to the above general announcement, that it would be great if a main track talk were to be given at FOSDEM about the importance of scientific open source software in science and engineering today. Main track talks last 50 minutes, and are addressed to all FOSDEM participants, something that would add to the visibility of scientific software. As an extra bonus, main track speakers have their travel and hotel expenses covered by FOSDEM. I think that the numerical python "ecosystem" could serve as an excellent "case study" of the data processing and visualisation workflow, while adding an interesting historical dimension, being one of the oldest projects of its sort. If you decide to respond to the call for main track speakers, you should start here: https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers/ Please note the December 1 deadline. I urge you to let us (the science software devroom conveners) know about your proposed talk, so that we may send a word of recommendation to the FOSDEM committee who will make the ultimate selection. We thank you in advance for your expressions of interest and participation!
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Christos Siopis