FOSDEM is the annual event for all things free and open source software in Europe happening over the 1st weekend in February in Brussels. In this episode I want to talk about one "dev room" (developer room) in particular: the one on Open Research, that has been running since 2020.

Over the course of a day, we heard from a variety of speakers on topics ranging from climate change to human choreography in computing.

Curious? Have a listen

Links:

• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/research/ the link to all the talks at the Open Research devroom at FOSDEM25
• https://research-fosdem.github.io/2025-online-schedule there was an "unofficial" devroom online on 15 Feb, 2 weeks later
• Interested in joining the effort on semantic climate? Here's the speaker's email: Peter.murray.rust@googlemail.com
• https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/episodes/13216530-en-open-data-open-software-with-teresa-gomez-diaz Previous episode with Teresa Gomez-Diaz (Uni Paris Gustav Eiffel)

Announcements:

• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdV75CnxOjw4Xd7AYad8ChZir1OPnW8ex7yUsOCldqRDzdUaQ/viewform Survey from Maxence in Karlsruhe/Germany
  • https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-maxence-azzouz-thuderoz Maxence profile
• https://github-pages.arc.ucl.ac.uk/Education/rseworkshop/ UCL workshop 23 - 27 July (in person)

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Parallel programming is hard. Say Hi to Parsl a Python library and tool that aims to make the task a bit easier. I spoke with two of the key people on the project, Dan Katz and Ben Clifford.

• https://github.com/parsl/parsl the GitHub repo of Parsl
• https://funcx.org FuncX
• http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu Montage programme mentioned in the discussion
  • https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage it's GitHub project
• https://www.astropy.org AstroPy a popular lib in Astrophysics
• https://numfocus.org Numfocus in the US, which supports a number of open source projects

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Meine Gäste Carina Haupt und Christoph Steinkamp vom DLR beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Einsatz von Large Language Models (wie z.B. ChatGPT) bei Forschungsprojekten und deren Softwareentwicklung helfen? Große Versprechungen - aber kleine Brötchen?

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John MacFarlane and Albert Krewinkel from Pandoc take us through the history and development of this very popular Swiss-army knife for digital documents and document publishing. Pandoc is, of course, open source. And if you want to contribute, don't be shy!

• https://github.com/jgm/pandoc GitHub repo
• https://www.lua.org Lua language
  • https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html Lua filters and Pandoc
• https://www.haskell.org Pandoc is written in Haskell
• https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/paper.html JOSS and Pandoc
• https://johnmacfarlane.net/tools all the tools from John MacFarlane
• https://github.com/tarleb Albert's GitHub

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Brad Frost is the author of a book called Atomic Design, in which he tries to help UI/UX designers improve their workflow and approach and create digital apps.

We also talk about the changing roles of designers and design in a world where we get new gadgets all the time. As Brad says in his book: let's go atomic

Links:

• https://bradfrost.com Brad's home page
• https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com here the book
• https://www.webcomponents.org
• https://www.w3.org/History.html bit of history re the WWW
  • https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

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Dr Elisabeth Lobe und Dr Peter Schuhmacher vom DLR geben uns einen (nicht ganz so) kleinen Einblick in die Welt von Quantencomputern und an welchen Themen sie daran arbeiten. Ein spannendes Gebiet auf dem viel passiert!

Hier eine Reihe von Links

• https://qci.dlr.de/en/alqu/ Die Quanteninitiative und die daran beteiligten Projekte
• https://qci.dlr.de/en/quantum-computing-basic-knowledge-in-five-video-lectures/ ein paar Einführungsvideos
• https://gitlab.com/quantum-computing-software/quark ein bisschen Software
• https://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit Qiskit von IBM
• https://openqasm.com OpenQasm
• https://www.qir-alliance.org Quantum Intermediate Representation

More general stuff:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm
• https://ionq.com/resources/what-is-hybrid-quantum-computing
• https://www.classiq.io/insights/quantum-algorithms-shors-algorithm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch–Jozsa_algorithm
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-computing-dictionary/what-is-a-qubit
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiVincenzo%27s_criteria Di Vincenzo Kriterien für Quanten Rechner
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_theorem
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_error_correction
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantengatter

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My guest is John Stevenson from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and there is a lot to cover in this episode: John's switch from science to engineering; how to move from proprietary to open source software - and the hot stuff: volcanos. And what John did in volcanology.

Here are a few links:

• https://www.bgs.ac.uk/people/stevenson-john/ John's profile at the BGS
• https://volcanologistsoutsideacademia.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/spotlight-john-a-stevenson-ph-d/
• https://all-geo.org/volcan01010/every-post-ever/ John's blog posts
• https://fosstodon.org/@volcan01010 John's profile on Mastodon
• https://github.com/volcan01010/ GitHub for John
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Kübler-Ross a reference for the 5 stages of grief

Volcanos

• https://icelandicvolcanos.is Iceland has a lot of volcanos
• https://rischi.protezionecivile.gov.it/en/volcanic/volcanoes-italy/ Volcanos in Italy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallajökull the big eruption from 2010
• http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written-by-pliny-the-elder-about-the-eruption-of-vesuvius-in-79-a-d-history-of-pompeii-en-238-s.htm the letters by Pliny the Younger describing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD

Tools mentioned

• https://www.sonatype.com
• https://qgis.org
• https://www.geopackage.org
• https://merginmaps.com
• https://www.redhat.com/en
• https://www.debian.org
• https://www.centos.org
• https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/malicious-code-in-

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How can you transition from photo-type or exploratory research software to production code? Can you? I've been discussing this with my guest Duncan McGregor. In the first part of our discussion we touch on how you can effectively analyse large data sets that are distributed over different locations with tools like Dask.

Links:

• https://www.youtube.com/@PairingWithDuncan Duncan's YouTube channel
• https://www.oneeyedmen.com Duncan's website
  • https://github.com/dmcg and his GitHub
• https://www.dask.org Dask
  • https://github.com/aws-solutions-library-samples/distributed-compute-on-aws-with-cross-regional-dask cross regional programming with Dask
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-efficient-cross-regional-i-o-intensive-workloads-with-dask-on-aws/
  • https://blog.dask.org/2022/07/19/dask-multi-cloud
• https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Zarr format
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF NetCDF
• https://www.ecmwf.int European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
  • https://github.com/ecmwf
  • https://www.eumetsat.int
• https://pangeo.io
• https://testbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Unit testing with Jupyter
  • https://github.com/nteract/testbook

Conferences/Events:

• https://dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk King's College London: summer school for digital humanities. 30 June - 4 July, London
• https://www.software.ac.uk/workshop/collaborations-workshop-2025-cw25 The annual Collaborations Workshop of the Software Sustainability Institute UK, 13-15 May, University of Sterling, Scotland
• https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/events/2025_06_13-rsehpcatisc.html The RSE workshop (13 June) at the IS

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