https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists
Help scientists find FLOSS alternatives I like this as a goal but I think before we can help them find alternatives we need to be able to explain why we are suggesting FLOSS alternatives. Imagine a scientists using matlab for example, why would he or she want to switch to an FLOSS alternative? And actually this is a hard one I think.
Of course there are a lot of scientific software packages out there and it seems to me that ideally we should have an expert on each of the FLOSS alternatives, to show how they can stack up aginst the proprietary stuff out there.
Get universities to teach FLOSS instead of proprietary software. (or at least mention/show it...)Functionally I think how to do this is very similar to the first goal.
Get scientists to be more involved in UbuntuI don't think it will be easy to get scientists who are not involved with FLOSS to be involved, first we have to just get them at the users level. Better if we can find the scientists among our community to fill the roles.
Try to convince scientist to make a career in FLOSS development This one I don't think is realistic for us to do generally. If one already has a career as a scientist I think it will be difficult to push them into a career in FLOSS development.
---------------------Below are some of my suggested goals for the team -----------------------------
Ensure there is a visible and transparent communication path between scientists and FLOSS development teams.
The reason I suggest this one is because it's a great thing if you can make the end user feel like they are part of the continuous improvement process. They, the end users are the ones who really have the vision of how they need their tool to work and if we can make it easy enough for them to get involved some of the above goals, I think, might be easier to achieve.
Brand Ubuntu and FLOSS as cool for the science community! With everything branding and the soft skill are very powerful. We need show how FLOSS is the cutting edge, not just struggling out there making copies of proprietary software. To achieve this goal I think has a lot to do with marketing and visuals.
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