Re: Chances for cooperation between OSDDLinux and Debian

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Raghava,

this is just a ping since we are waiting for a more detailed answer.  As
I said we would be very happy to use the chance for a face to face
meeting.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:20:08PM +0530, G P S Raghava wrote:
> Dear Andreas
> Thanks for your email and offer for cooperation. We are very much interested to work with debian-med and biolinux, as all three debian-med , biolinux and OSDDlinux have common object to provide service to the scientific community. I will write detail email to you soon.
>  
> With best wishes & regards
> 
> Raghava
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> On 15-Oct-2013, at 2:36 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> > 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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