[Hamara-devel] Astronomic & Scientific Remix of hamara

[Raju DV]

On मंगळवार 20 ओक्टोबर 2015 11:10 म.पू., Pirate Praveen wrote:
>
> 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
There you got us sorted. The page is containing extensive list of 
software applications and libraries already categorized according 
different scientific applications.
We can use them or add/remove to them as required.

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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 )
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