Chances for cooperation between OSDDLinux and Debian
Hi,
I'm contacting you on behalf of the Debian Med team which has the goal
to package any Free Software that is relevant for medical care straight
into Debian.[1]
Your OSDDlinux looks like an exciting implementation of our idea to
bring Debian to the end user. Our goal is to prepare as much as
possible straight into Debian to make your work as easy as possible - in
an optimal situation you should be able to autogenerate your
distribution straight from the Debian package pool so your content is
actually Debian and you just need to care for some user oriented
customisation, support and contact to your users. I hope you might like
this idea - at least the BioLinux distriution[2] which in principle has
the very same goal like you just for a different target user group is
happy about the cooperation we established since more than three years.
If you look at our so called web sentinel for instance on the biology
section[3] you will find a lot of matches to your NGS page[4] (and on
other pages - just to mention an example). Our goal would be to work
on the missings between your page and our software pool to enable you
to profit directly from the work done inside Debian.
The cooperation with BioLinux developers was established in a way that
we are working inside the very same version control system(s - we are
using Git or SVN at the developers preference). So changes made in
BioLinux will immediately forewardet into the Debian package and if a
Debian developer changes something this directly leads to an enhancement
inside BioLinux. We regard this as a win-win-situation to save time and
man power on both sides.
If you like to learn more about this you are kindly invited to sign into
the Debian Med mailing list[5] and ask any relevant question there or
even simply raise our awareness to some of your high priority package of
yours to ask us for inclusion into Debian.
Moreover there is an excellent chance to meet Debian Med and BioLinux
developers in person because we will have our yearly Sprint meeting in
end of January next year in Aberdeen.[6] This meetings have some
tradition[7] in our small community and leaded to the effect that our
community was developing way better than before. If you look at the
Debian team analysis graphs that are collected here[8] you see a general
pattern of higher activity since 2011 - which was the time when we had
our first meeting. We would like to invite you to become part of this
development so if at least one of your developers would like to join
this could really be in the interest of both parties.
Kind regards and thanks for your contribution to Free Software
Andreas.
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
[2] http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux/
[3] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio
[4] http://osddlinux.osdd.net/ngs.php
[5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med
[6] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Aberdeen2014
[7] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting
[8] http://debian-med.debian.net/
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