Hi, After our blends package was accepted some time ago, and we got our logo, I would like to officially announce the new "Debian Astro" Pure Blend. Debian Astro is a spin-off from the Debian Science Pure Blend with the goal to support both professional and amateur astronomers. Infrastructure ============== We created a mailing list [1] for discussions about astronomy related topics for users as well as for developers. An Alioth project [2] was set up for team maintenance of our packages. We use git for package maintenance [3]. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-astro [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-astro [3] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/ Blends Tasks ============ These tasks will be available to ease the installation of Debian Astro: * Catalogs * Data Reduction * Education * Publication * Simulation * Telescope Control * Tools * Viewers * Frameworks * Python * Python3 * Tcl/Tk * GDL * Development A description of the tasks as well as the package lists for each task are available from the Blends web sentinel [4], which can be also reached from the Debian Astro Blend home page [5]. [4] http://blends.debian.org/astro/tasks [5] http://blends.debian.org/astro/ Status ====== Currently, we have ~80 source packages in team maintenance. The total number of packages in the Blends Tasks lists is currently >200. Packages include state-of-the-art analysis frameworks like Astropy, but also important legacy packages. Our goal is to deliver the first version of the Blend together with the release of Debian Stretch. Sprint ====== We plan to have a Debian Astro Sprint in late summer this year in Germany and would like to invite all interested to join us. Thanks ====== We would specifically thank Andreas Tille who helped a lot setting up the blend, and Maria Hammerstrøm who created our nice logo. Best regards Ole
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