July–November 2025
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Led a concentrated chapter of work in the master repository, including the Infinite Castle contribution stream.
Elixpo · open-source project foundry
Open work should reach a clear public release.
Elixpo brings maintainers and contributors together around active software, research, and public services. We prepare contribution paths, document decisions, publish releases, and preserve who did the work.
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- Project records
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- Research records
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- Public services
EST. Building in public since 2023
Why Elixpo exists
Elixpo helps open-source work become easier to understand, contribute to, and release.
A repository is the beginning. Publishing code does not automatically provide clear documentation, prepared contribution paths, accountable review, or a release that people can use and cite. Elixpo coordinates that work with project maintainers.
A Chapter gives the work a boundary. Each Elixpo Chapter has a specific goal, named responsibilities, an expected release, and a permanent contribution record.
Lead developers
The people responsible for Elixpo’s current technical direction.
Lead status is shown separately from contributor recognition. These profiles describe ongoing responsibility rather than ranking leads against community contributors.
Founder, Lead Maintainer and Developer
Ayushman Bhattacharya
Founded Elixpo and leads its maintenance and development: technical direction, public releases, research surfaces, organization operations, and the shared project-foundry programme.
@Circuit-OvertimeLead Developer and Co-Founder
Vivek Yadav
Co-founded Elixpo and leads development across Chapter engineering and project delivery, moving shared implementation work into reviewed public releases.
@ez-vivekProgram & Research Manager
Anwesha Chakraborty
Manages Elixpo's programmes and open research, connecting published studies with implementation, technical review, and organization-level stewardship.
@anwe-chThe Chapter process
Each Chapter follows a documented four-stage process.
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Set the scope
The maintainers define a release-sized goal, the evidence it needs, and the tasks that are ready for contributors.
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Develop in public
Maintainers and contributors discuss decisions, review changes, and track progress in the open.
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Publish the release
The project publishes its software, research, hardware, or infrastructure with the documentation required to use it.
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Preserve the record
Elixpo records the release, its status, important decisions, and the people who contributed to it.
The Elixpo Chapter
The Elixpo Chapter coordinates shared releases.
The Chapter repository contains the shared process, active release work, contribution paths, public decisions, and attribution records used across Elixpo. It is maintained separately from the project directory because it supports every category of work.
Read about the Chapter01 Frame02 Build03 Release04 Record
The public directory
Browse Elixpo’s work by category.
Projects, research, and operated services have different responsibilities. Every directory entry therefore identifies its lifecycle, stewardship relationship, source repository, and available evidence.
01 / 19 records
Projects
Software, libraries, hardware, packages, and creative tools people can inspect and extend.
Open directory 02 / 7 recordsResearch
Papers, experiments, models, and reproducibility artifacts with explicit research status.
Open directory 03 / 9 recordsServices
Hosted public systems Elixpo actively operates, with a distinct operational responsibility.
Open directoryFeatured work
Explore current work from across Elixpo.
active
service · core
LixBlogs
Open publishing for technical stories, rich documents, and creator workflows.
View project detailsactive
project · core
LixSketch
A hand-drawn SVG canvas for visual thinking and programmable diagrams.
View project detailsactive
project · core
Oreo
An open hardware badge, operated site, and research platform running OreoOS.
View project detailsactive
research · connected
OreoLook
Open AI search and deep research with cited answers, reproducibility artifacts, and a public architecture paper.
View project detailsactive
project · member
Kareixo
An independently led Member Project building within the Elixpo commons.
View project detailsactive
service · core
Lixrl
Short links, managed redirects, analytics, and production-ready QR codes.
View project detailsResearch and distribution
Research and package releases have dedicated indexes.
The main portal provides an overview of the organization. The research and package sections provide the citations, reproducibility records, installation instructions, and distribution details required for those outputs.
Research index
Review papers, experiments, and supporting evidence.
The research directory connects each project to its repository, released artifacts, lifecycle, and available reproducibility evidence.
Browse the research index Linux distributionInstall packages released by Elixpo projects.
The package directory explains the maintained applications, signed APT source, supported systems, releases, and installation options.
Explore Elixpo Packagesnpm
Browse the npm package index @elixpo/lixsketchCanvas engine
npm@elixpo/lixeditorReact editor
npm@elixpo/lixblogs-cliPublishing CLI
Contributor recognition
Contributor records explain who worked on each release.
Recognition is based on repository evidence, excludes declared project leads and automation, and describes the period and type of work rather than presenting a contribution count without context.
March–September 2026
Karan Ray
Contributed across the Chapter and multiple services, then continued as the independent maintainer of Member Project Kareixo.
April–September 2026
Bhumika Sudarshani
Strengthened release automation and contributed across Accounts, LixBlogs, LixSketch, Open Source, Status, and the Chapter.
June–September 2026
Divyanshu Jha
Worked across service interfaces, documentation, publishing, mail infrastructure, payouts, and the Chapter record.
October 2026
Senthil Raja R
Strengthened public-service safety across collaboration, sessions, sitemap generation, content previews, and validation boundaries in the Chapter.
October 2025
AsHim Shrestha
Worked across interface infrastructure, including PDF viewing, chat UI and API structure, timezone selection, and reusable DOM construction.
August–October 2025
Itachi
Built Discord integration for pull-request review and contributed the memory-core work used by the earlier Elixpo Chat experiment.
May–August 2026
Krishnendu Dutta
Improved LixSketch Mermaid rendering so canvas output matches previews across themes, entity relationships, labels, arrows, and fills.
October 2025
Deep Saha
Reworked Chapter documentation for clearer setup, current runtime requirements, stronger structure, and a more reliable contributor entry point.
August 2025
redac1ed
Developed and refined the search-agent interface and behavior during an early Chapter contribution stream.
Organization history
Elixpo documents how the organization and its projects have changed.
The earliest surviving Elixpo project record
The OctaBit repository is the earliest surviving public project record now held by Elixpo. It documents the college-era hardware work that predates the GitHub organization and supports the statement that Elixpo has been building in public since 2023.
The Elixpo GitHub organization is created
A shared organization gives the growing project series a durable public home. This is the beginning of the organization record, distinct from the earlier college projects that were later gathered under it.
The Chapter repository begins preserving shared work
The elixpo_chapter repository becomes the master collection for project history and cross-project contributions. It later supplies the evidence base used for contributor recognition across the organization.
Elixpo participates in its first recorded Hacktoberfest
Elixpo maintainers open the Chapter to Hacktoberfest work, apply the programme labels, review submissions, and record accepted changes. Three Hacktoberfest-labelled pull requests are merged during the month; the record supports maintainer-led participation, not an official role within the Hacktoberfest programme itself.
Propose a project
Start an Elixpo Chapter for active open-source work.
Read the public standards and open a discussion with the maintainers. A repository can remain under its current owner; transfer to the Elixpo organization is only one available stewardship arrangement.
Read the contribution process