Opinions: Debian for (bio)process engineering?

[Bernelle Verster <bernellev@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I'm a proper noob, new even to coding in general, and, very very new
to Debian. (So if I make a mistake/follow poor etiquette, please
educate me)

I'm currently checking out the debi-chem, Debian science project and
debian-med places, in anticipation of going to DebConf15!

I am a bioprocess engineer, and looking to get into better process
control and analysis for bioprocesses, specifically wastewater
treatment (with some mods there), and fungal processes (aka solid
substrate fermentation), and these blends don't really have what I'm
looking for. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for yet either, but
data-acquisition is a start [1]

I have seen the engineering packages on debi-science [2]. I am not
sure if these as a rough grouping are the sort of engineering I'm
doing, or more 'IT' engineering - opinions on joining this or not?

My question is, is there some process engineering stuff out there I
can join? And if not, how do I go about starting something?

And lastly, where would these queries best be directed to?

best regards
Bernelle Verster (indiebio on IRC)

[1] - http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/dataacquisition
[2] - http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/engineering