[Hamara-devel] Astronomic & Scientific Remix of hamara

[Vikas Tara]

On 20/10/15 09:17, akshat wrote:
> at Bottom:
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Raju DV <rajudv at openmailbox.org 
> <mailto:rajudv at openmailbox.org>> wrote:
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>     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>  <mailto: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.
>
>>     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>     [1] Pune GNU/Linux Users Group.  (plug.org.in  <http://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.
+1

Once we have a list of packages required, we would as you say need to 
package and host them in our repo.

Generating a distro once we have the package list is not a huge job - so 
focusing on defining / agreeing the list of packages would be the priority.
>
> 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.
Thanks for the effort - look forward to helping in anyway I can!


Regards



Vik

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