Hi all, A little background first. I wanted to share about a loose organization of equal peers called Debian, It is and has been described as a project as well as 'The Universal Operating System' , see debian.org . The project and the OS has been used world-over and is a friend to many a sys-admins whose lives have become a bit peaceful due to the nature of the tools and the commitment of people behind Debian. The Project and the OS has been in existence for more than a decade and a half and from a handful of packages (i.e. applications) has grown to serve almost 40000 packages (forty thousand packages) with 10 different hardware architectures powering everything from the smallest heart monitor and artificial heart to being used in missiles and nuclear power system as well.
Now every year Debian organizes a conference every year in a different country and city to - a. Promote Debian to that part of the region/world. b. Bring various developers from all across the world so they can collaborate in-person (face-time) as well as give new people (new blood) a chance both to learn better code/development practices and also share new ideas to old problems in light of changing technological environment. In this aspect, I have been awarded a travel and accommodation bursary/sponsorship for the entire conference and a bit more. See https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/the-road-to-debconf-2016-tourism-and-arts/ I have been a debian-user for less than a decade and have been contributing to the Debian QA efforts. See bugs.debian.org/from:shirisha...@gmail.com I am sure the Debian BTS (Bug Tracking System) would be itself a fertile ground for the data scientists in the datameet community ;). Now having shared the above, in this debconf there is an initiative called showmebox initiative which is being driven which shows the power of data visualization using any foss data visualization library, the more FOSSY the data (open data) and tools to extract, process and finally visualize the data is, the better. If the tools are licensed either GPL or BSD great as both are great copyleft licenses. Some info. about the initiative https://wiki.debian.org/ShowMeBox Couple of Debian blends where data visualization is a focus area - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianParl https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTinker Mailing list for the showmebox initiative - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/showme-devel/ My involvement in this is limited to the fact that I'm going from India. So if somebody has something that they want to show-off they can connect on the mailing list shared just above and CC me . I would just be a handsome courier, and all questions and queries would be directed at whatever contact details are shared with me. I live in Pune, Maharashtra and would be flying from Mumbai, so if somebody has something which works under the various constraints that we have as shown in the wiki and the discussions on the mailing list, feel free to connect me off-list. If the developer/data scientist/data visualization hacker is either in Pune or Mumbai both that doubles the chances as there is possibility of meeting and me trying out their stuff and if it runs on native Debian without needing any non-free software I am open for it. I am ok at compiling stuff provided instructions are clear and the build system is not buggy (which sometimes happen). Open hardware is good but if it works on a Debian workstation/laptop it is good enough for me. Look forward to hearing from you. If somebody needs more contact details to talk in detail i.e. my cell number, please reach off-list and will share it. To the rest of the datameet community, sorry for the noise and nuisance caused . -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
