Hello all,
As you all probably know, there is a huge need for sustainable community maintenance of research software; and I think Debian is the logical foundation for such efforts due to its distributed nature and extensive technical & social infrastructure**
To help make this a reality I urge any Debian contributor who cares about science to participate in this year's Conference of Research Software Engineers:
http://www.rse.ac.uk/conf2017.html
** and shadow infrastructure!
Cheers,
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