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<div>On मंगळवार 20 ओक्टोबर 2015 11:10 म.पू., Pirate
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<pre>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
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<pre>It would be a good idea to collaborate with <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience</a></pre>
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<font face="Ubuntu Condensed"><small>There you got us
sorted. The page is containing extensive list of
software applications and libraries already
categorized according different scientific
applications. <br>
We can use them or add/remove to them as required. <br>
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<pre>[1] Pune GNU/Linux Users Group. ( <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://plug.org.in" target="_blank">plug.org.in</a> )
[2] Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif">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.<br>
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sans-serif"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.ko.html">http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.ko.html</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif">+1<br>
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Once we have a list of packages required, we would as you say need
to package and host them in our repo.<br>
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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.<br>
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sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thanks for the effort - look
forward to helping in anyway I can!</font><br>
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Vik<br>
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