[Hamara-devel] Astronomic & Scientific Remix of hamara

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Raju DV <rajudv at openmailbox.org> wrote:

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> On मंगळवार 20 ओक्टोबर 2015 11:10 म.पू., Pirate Praveen wrote:
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> On 2015, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 20 1:19:19 AM IST, Raju DV <rajudv at openmailbox.org> <rajudv at openmailbox.org> wrote:
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> Hey People,
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> 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
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> works on Scientific and mathematical open source software's. She is
> also
> the organizer for PLUG meetups every month.
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> I re-introduced her to the Hamara project there. She wants us to have a
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> Scientific remix for hamara. The idea seems interesting to me. Lets see
>
> what your opinions are.
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> 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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​Its a good initiative and also I like the names you mentioned. I would
love to work on astronomy dedicated distribution. The problem which I have
seen when I was working in TIFR that although TIFR has the best internet
connectivity and awesome download speed and LAN connectivity of 1000Mbps
but rarely scientists and students upgrade their Linux based systems
because they don't want the pain of reinstalling the astronomical packages
from scratch once again especially the students who still didn't got the
proper exposure to Linux. As most of the professional radio astronomical
softwares like AIPS, CASA, PyRAF, GIPSY, DS9  are still not debian
packaged. Here is the list of some of the radio astronomy softwares.
http://satorchi.net/specsoft/specsoft.php

Similarly there are softwares for each specialized branch of astronomy. And
here is the list of softwares which are converted to debian packaging or
the work is going on.
http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.ko.html

So, initially I was thinking to build a debian based distribution dedicated
to astronomy and I have kept its name as ASTROBIAN, but after discussing in
NCRA-TIFR (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune) with Dr. Yogesh
Wadadekar (marked in the email) he suggested that it will be more better to
start with astronomy dedicated debian repository rather than a distribution
because of the fact of maintaining the distribution, but here I think we
can go with the Hamara Linux Debian based distribution itself, please share
your views also.

Also I am marking mail to Abhishek Johri who is a Research Scholar at NCRA
and Aditi Bhatt who was a project associate at NCRA earlier. All three of
us were very much interested in this project and also started packaging of
small astronomical softwares.



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Akshat Singh
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