FOSDEM science devroom

[Sylwester Arabas]

Dear All,

In February 2013 the FOSDEM conference will take place in Brussels:
http://www.fosdem.org/

There is an open call for devroom proposals with deadline on Oct. 1st:
http://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html

I'm writing to you to ask if you would be interested in attending, 
presenting at or co-organising a devroom devoted to open source software 
for scientific users?

Writing "software for scientific users" I have in mind anything from 
number-crunching libraries, to science-inclined compilers, to data 
analysis environments, to scientific file formats, to 
plotting/visualisation packages, to LaTeX distributions, etc - anything 
that is developed with the aim of serving scientists.

Thinking of a devroom I have in mind a session of a dozen or two of 
short talks introducing projects, advertising brand new features, 
discussing issues relevant to both open-source and scientific computing, 
exemplifying merits of new techniques, development strategies, licenses, 
or anything that might be interesting to a group of scientific software 
developers (and users, as these communities apparently overlap).

A devroom proposal has to include a tentative list of projects, so I'm 
kindly asking anyone potentially interested to reply with at least the 
name of the project to be presented.

Any comments on the idea itself very welcome!
Feel free to forward this message to anyone potentially interested. I'll 
direct any further correspondence only to those who reply.

Kind regards,
Sylwester Arabas

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