Re: Request for Ideas - Astronomy working group

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Ole,

there were some positive responses to your idea - anybody working on
this (like creating an alioth project etc?).  I'll stick to my promise
to help in the starting phase.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 06:56:31PM +0100, Florian Rothmaier wrote:
> 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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