On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, David Bremner wrote: > > Although not requested, I've decided to share the abstract I've just > > submitted. I wanted to get your feedback (does it sound worth > > "lecturing" or may be some kind of "discussion" would be more > > appropriate). > Hi Yaroslav; Hi David,
> Pardon my sloppy and quick reading (marking finals calls :) ), but if I I guess I should express pardon from my side that idea didn't stick out well to be more obvious . > read you right, you intend to focus on the idea blends for science, > which I think deserves its own session, and if you have enough material > for a lecture, then I say go for it. It is not per se about blends. I see blends as the best and easy solution to jump on to make Debian more appealing to the generic audience, be it a science or any other user-base with given interests. With the talk though I want to express the opinion that Debian is already ready to become a distribution of choice for many user-bases among mortals, and that is a particularly good fit for scientific users. Question is: why then it hasn't become popular among them (yet)? and I speculate that it is simply due to the lack of visibility of Debian among those users and this issue could be easily addressed. Moreover I wanted to reiterate some issues, currently not fully addressed in Debian, which are somewhat specific to scientific user-base. -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100430010955.gd8...@onerussian.com