<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">at Bottom:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Raju DV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajudv@openmailbox.org" target="_blank">rajudv@openmailbox.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On मंगळवार 20 ओक्टोबर 2015 11:10 म.पू.,
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<pre>On 2015, ഒക്ടോബർ 20 1:19:19 AM IST, Raju DV <a href="mailto:rajudv@openmailbox.org" target="_blank"><rajudv@openmailbox.org></a> wrote:
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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 href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience</a></pre>
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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 href="http://plug.org.in" target="_blank">plug.org.in</a> )
[2] Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (
<a href="http://sicsr.ac.in" target="_blank">http://sicsr.ac.in</a> )
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<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://satorchi.net/specsoft/specsoft.php">http://satorchi.net/specsoft/specsoft.php</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><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></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.ko.html">http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.ko.html</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><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><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, 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><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#000099">Akshat Singh<br>[PG-8 IIITM-Kerala]<br></font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#000099">Pune</font></div><div><font color="#000099" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000099" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Mob.: +91-8806963718</font></div><div><font color="#000099" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://home-akshatsingh.rhcloud.com/aks/" target="_blank">Webpage: home-akshatsingh.rhcloud.com/aks/</a></font></div><div><font color="#000099" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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