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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/10/15 07:08, Raju DV wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On मंगळवार 20 ओक्टोबर 2015 11:10
म.पू., Pirate Praveen wrote:<br>
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On 2015, ഒക്ടോബർ 20 1:19:19 AM IST, Raju DV <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rajudv@openmailbox.org"><rajudv@openmailbox.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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 wrap="">It would be a good idea to collaborate with <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience">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. </small></font><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Altogether seems like a great idea for the distro!<br>
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