Re: Request for Ideas - Astronomy working group
Hi everyone,
I pretty much like Andreas' idea of starting an own blend. I think such
a project could help the astronomy-related packagers to move closer
together.
Moreover, there is a good chance in such a project that people (like me)
get a better idea of who is working on which package(s), who could be
asked in case of a specific issue and which tasks are the most urgent ones
to be worked on in order to help the entire community.
Of course I would join the Debian Astronomy blend and I would also
participate in a meeting, e.g. in Potsdam as suggested by Steffen. And I
think we should have such a meeting soonish to coordinate a bit the next
steps to go.
Best regards,
Florian
Am 13.01.2014 15:59, schrieb "Steffen Möller":
> Hello,
>
>>> at first thanks for all your great work on astronomy packages.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:41:42PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
>>>> Dear all (astrophysicists, amateurs, scientists, other),
>>>>
>>>> there are now quite some people around that are interested in using
>>>> Debian for astronomy related tasks. It may be a good idea if we could
>>>> somehow bring us together and see where we can coordinate our efforts.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> I would very much support the creation of an Astronomy working group,
>> but I am not quite sure how we would actually use an Alioth project and
>> mailing list, especially if the packaging remains under debian-science
>> umbrella which seems the right thing to me.
>>
>> Well, perhaps we should just give it a try :-)
>
> How about a Sprint in Potsdam?
>
> Is there a way to team up with some scientific projects? Einstein@Home
> for instance is close to Debian, much around the globe, really.
>
> There are the KDE people doing kstars. Maybe one get some folks from
> the indi telescope control library? Some hardware people would be nice.
> Anybody building telescopes, still?
>
> Image stackers for videoastronomy?
>
> Astronometry?
>
> Can we tie up with itelescopes.net somehow?
>
> IOTA?
>
> We^H^HYou should investigate how much there is to share between all those
> contributing to the community. Maybe it is not too much, still, it would
> be a very social meeting and rewarding, I am sure. To define usable workflows
> with Debian alone would be very helpful.
>
> Please go for it all. I'll join you in a couple of decades when I have time
> for star gazing .... I know, Astronomers do not have time for that, either :o)
>
> Steffen
>
>
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