Re: Sprint-derived paper now out:
Nice!
I think we should refresh our blog (which did not received any
news since three years ... :-( )
https://debianmed.blogspot.de/
Also Debian Publicity should get this message. I think by all good
work Debian Med is doing we are not doing good from the publicity
side. Volunteers to fix this more than welcome.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 02:59:41PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> this paper has now surfaced
>
> Möller, Steffen; Prescott, Stuart W.; Wirzenius, Lars; Reinholdtsen,
> Petter; Chapman, Brad; Prins, Pjotr; Soiland-Reyes, Stian; Klötzl,
> Fabian; Bagnacani, Andrea; Kalaš, Matúš; Tille, Andreas; Crusoe, Michael
> R. (2017): Robust cross-platform workflows: how technical and scientific
> communities collaborate to develop, test and share best practices for
> data analysis. Data Science and Engineering.
> https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4
>
> that I recall to have its roots in an idea exchange during a train ride
> from Saint Malo (where we had the 2015 Debian Med Sprint) to Rennes. The
> 2016 Sprint in Lyngby brought some flesh to it all, an ELIXIR Hackathon
> in Trondheim shaped it further, at this year's Sprint in Bucharest we
> then decided to write this up. Additional authors were picked from
> comments in threads on the Debian Devel and Debian Med mailing lists or
> that reached us in person at the ECCB or ISMB conferences and the BOSC
> and Codefest premeetings. An EU COST action (which is EU money to
> support travel among peers with similar or complementary interests) came
> up with that journal and publication costs for the Open Access
> publication were kindly taken from us.
>
> I tend to think that we arrived at something that is not too Debianish
> and not too much loaded with Bioinformatics. Thanks to a couple of
> gifted native speakers it is all very enjoyable to read, too. And we
> should also thank all those above referenced activities and their
> sponsor that repeatedly bring us together.
>
> Strategically, I do not know what the paper will be good for. It
> triggered a lot in me. For instance we have a dualism with the
> Conda/BioConda communities that Debian needs to learn from, I tend to
> think. Also, a thread on auto-built packages to bring closer to our
> distribution I started here
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/11/msg00120.html which came
> up while contributing to that paper. And we need more ideas to develop
> ourselves to remain attractive to the periphery to our distribution.
> Maybe we could have synchronised with Fink in a better way to attract
> Mac people. Or newer virtualisation techniques that are not clouds but
> mimic a Linux kernel on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux (newish) or
> http://www.colinux.org/ (old, worked nicely!)) should be promoted more.
>
> Something I will raise at the next Sprint is a request to think about a
> Debian Med paper that we should then cite with whatever biological
> research we perform with Debian Med (directly or containerised). To
> decide how we should present ourselves in there could reflect/direct
> what to show on a Debian Med booth on conferences.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steffen
>
>
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