# Call for Devrooms for IndiaFOSS 2025

**URL:** <https://forum.fossunited.org/t/call-for-devrooms-for-indiafoss-2025/5290>\
**Category:** IndiaFOSS Conference\
**Created:** [1 March 2025 12:13 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/call-for-devrooms-for-indiafoss-2025/5290 "2025-03-01T12:13:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [7 April 2025 18:25 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/call-for-devrooms-for-indiafoss-2025/5290/18 "2025-04-07T18:25:26Z")

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# FOSS in Open Data / Open Data Devroom

**Managers** : @nemo, @thejesh_gn (Datameet), Kartik Kwatra  
(How India Lives), Gaurav Godhwani (CivicDataLab), Unnati Patel

## Intro

Open Data is a growing movement, both in the FOSS world and outside of it. The  
intersection of FOSS and Open Data is what this devroom would be focusing  
on.

## Motivation

## Feasibility

There have been a few open data conferences in India in the past, including  
Wikidata days, and a few smaller gatherings for Open Data Days. There have  
been opendata talks at IndiaFOSS in the past, so this seems like the perfect  
mix.

## Volunteering

We believe that 1 additional reviewer and 1 additional volunteer should be  
sufficient. The devroom managers listed above have agreed for both reviewing  
and logistics volunteering.

## CFP

### Scope

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

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

- Research or other impactful work done with open-datasets
- Open Dataset publications with an Indian Focus
- Open Data tooling†
- Meta-proposals on Open Data (such as about Linked Data, or Open Data  
commons)
- Open dataset publications (not necessarily India focused)
- All other proposals

## 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.

† - 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.

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