[Hamara-devel] Astronomic & Scientific Remix of hamara

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2015, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 20 1:19:19 AM IST, Raju DV <rajudv at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>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

It would be a good idea to collaborate with https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience

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>[2] Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research ( 
>http://sicsr.ac.in )
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