Hi everyone, I pretty much like Andreas' idea of starting an own blend. I think such a project could help the astronomy-related packagers to move closer together.
Moreover, there is a good chance in such a project that people (like me) get a better idea of who is working on which package(s), who could be asked in case of a specific issue and which tasks are the most urgent ones to be worked on in order to help the entire community. Of course I would join the Debian Astronomy blend and I would also participate in a meeting, e.g. in Potsdam as suggested by Steffen. And I think we should have such a meeting soonish to coordinate a bit the next steps to go. Best regards, Florian Am 13.01.2014 15:59, schrieb "Steffen Möller": > Hello, > >>> at first thanks for all your great work on astronomy packages. >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:41:42PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: >>>> Dear all (astrophysicists, amateurs, scientists, other), >>>> >>>> there are now quite some people around that are interested in using >>>> Debian for astronomy related tasks. It may be a good idea if we could >>>> somehow bring us together and see where we can coordinate our efforts. >>> >>> +1 >> >> I would very much support the creation of an Astronomy working group, >> but I am not quite sure how we would actually use an Alioth project and >> mailing list, especially if the packaging remains under debian-science >> umbrella which seems the right thing to me. >> >> Well, perhaps we should just give it a try :-) > > How about a Sprint in Potsdam? > > Is there a way to team up with some scientific projects? Einstein@Home > for instance is close to Debian, much around the globe, really. > > There are the KDE people doing kstars. Maybe one get some folks from > the indi telescope control library? Some hardware people would be nice. > Anybody building telescopes, still? > > Image stackers for videoastronomy? > > Astronometry? > > Can we tie up with itelescopes.net somehow? > > IOTA? > > We^H^HYou should investigate how much there is to share between all those > contributing to the community. Maybe it is not too much, still, it would > be a very social meeting and rewarding, I am sure. To define usable workflows > with Debian alone would be very helpful. > > Please go for it all. I'll join you in a couple of decades when I have time > for star gazing .... I know, Astronomers do not have time for that, either :o) > > Steffen > > -- 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/52d57a4f.8030...@ari.uni-heidelberg.de