[Hamara-devel] Astronomic & Scientific Remix of hamara

[Vikas Tara]

On 20/10/15 07:08, Raju DV wrote:
>
>
> 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 withhttps://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.
Yeah - that helps quite a lot - we're already doing something similar 
for an education meta package - I would suggest creating pages on the 
wiki and writing up the list of packages.

The actual work in creating the meta packages and respins is not huge - 
so we really just need the lists of packages that people want.

Altogether seems like a great idea for the distro!

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