Request for Ideas - Astronomy working group
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.
Some days ago, I was contacted by the creator of the "DistroAstro"
distribution <http://www.distroastro.org/>, which is dedicated to
amateur and professional astronomers, asking for help with his
distribution. Distroastro is a derivative of Ubuntu. I am now trying to
get him interested in creating his packages for Debian instead of just
his own distribution; but this example also shows that we are not
visible enough to others when speaking about astronomy with Debian.
However, I don't have a good idea on how we could organize ourself. The
debian-science mailing list is still probably the best place, and an
additional mailing list would not make sense yet. There is a (really
outdated) wiki page available at
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Astronomy> which could be used as
a start.
What do you think?
What should be the topics we can deal with?
Best regards
Ole
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