--- tags: FOSDEM, conference --- # FOSDEM 2023 Proposal February 4--5th, 2023 https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-09-29-call_for_devrooms/ https://www.scipy2022.scipy.org/talk-poster-presentations Devroom 2019: https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/tracks/ **pentabarf username:** jarrodmillman, juanis2112, yuvipanda, tupui, stefanv ## Title of devroom Scientific Python & the Pangeo Project ## Elaborate description of proposed devroom (including possible topics) ### Scientific Python The scientific Python ecosystem is a loose federation of community developed and owned Python projects widely used in scientific research, technical computing, and data science. The Scientific Python project's vision is to help pave the way toward a unified, expanded scientific Python community. It focuses its efforts along two primary axes: _(i)_ to create a joint community around all scientific Python projects and _(ii)_ to support maintainers by building cross-cutting technical infrastructure and tools. ### Pangeo Project The Pangeo project is a community promoting open, reproducible, and scalable science in the scientific Python ecosystem. Its community provides documentation, develops and maintains software, and deploys computing infrastructure to make scientific research and programming easier---with a particular focus on Earth Sciences and Climate Science. ### Goals of devroom content The talks would be focused on getting folks who aren't already deeply involved in the scientific Python or pangeo ecosystem aquainted with it. This would include (but not be limited to): 1. An introduction to the scientific Python ecosystem (including NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, xarray, jupyter, etc) and how folks can get involved in these projects at different levels 2. Showcase how scientific Python is used in climate & earth sciences research via the Pangeo project 3. What can you, as an open source developer, do for climate change mitigation? ## Why does it fit FOSDEM? The Scientific Python and the Pangeo projects both bring open science tooling and open source principles to individual students and researchers as well as large institutions. While sharing a common heritage with the larger free and open source developer community, we have been more isolated from the larger community recently. This venue enables us to better engage with, learn from, and share with the larger community. Moreover, climate change is the defining challenge of our generation, and open source tooling and the Pangeo project, in particular, is an important part of addressing the scientific challenges around it. FOSDEM is a great venue for us to interact with developers from other open source communities interested in climate change, to share our enthusiasm around open science, and to find opportunities to grow a stonger developer community. ## Relevant URLs https://scientific-python.org https://github.com/scientific-python https://discuss.scientific-python.org https://pangeo.io/