[Hamara-devel] Astronomic & Scientific Remix of hamara

[Raju DV]

Hey People,

I had a discussion with Manjusha Joshi at this months PLUG [1] meet. She 
is a Professor at SICSR[2] and a long time FOSS contributor. She mostly 
works on Scientific and mathematical open source software's. She is also 
the organizer for PLUG meetups every month.

I re-introduced her to the Hamara project there. She wants us to have a 
Scientific remix for hamara. The idea seems interesting to me. Lets see 
what your opinions are.

The idea is to have a Hamara Scientific distro which will contain the 
software’s used in science domain like scilab, ipython, python libraries 
etc. Pre Installed. So a person can just spin in a Live CD or USB key of 
our distro and start using them.

  Manjusha expressed this concern that most distros assume that Internet 
connection can be easily made available and people can download what is 
required from Internet. While the condition is not so in India with poor 
internet connectivity at most places, specially the rural region.

Manjusha, and Akshat could you collaborate with us here to make a list 
of softwares and libraries that you wish to be present in the distro?


Akshat was also there with us and he wants to see a similar remix 
catering to Astronomy softwares.

Both the distros sound cool to me. Any ways we will be creating them 
once our shift to debian gets complete.

Once the shifting gets complete, lets do a lot of remixes to it.

Lets call these distros  हमारा वैज्ञानिक (Hamara Vaigyanik) and हमारा  
अंतरिक्ष ( Hamara Antariksha)
Any better suggestion for names.?

Cheers,
Raju

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[1] Pune GNU/Linux Users Group.  ( plug.org.in )
[2] Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research ( 
http://sicsr.ac.in )