Le mardi 17 avril 2012 à 22:03 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit : > Under this umbrella of the subject from an automated response let me > bring a related topic: > > With the blooming number of scientific applications we > carry/support in Debian I think that we should start thinking about > positioning Wheezy 7.0 as "scientific as in the guts not as in the name" > (slogan can vary ;-) ). IMHO Debian as a rich platform for scientific > computing is heavily undervalued, and partially that is due to us just > doing work and not much PR, and that we are working within bigger > project (i.e. Debian) and not on a half-baked derivative with its own > name. > > So, here are few activities I think worth pursuing > > - catchy release notes statement highlighting well-covered fields of > science, computing platforms (distributed, MPI, ...),... > > - some short high-level tech-review paper to be submitted to some > relatively well known journal (not sure if we could aim at Science ;-) > but who knows...) which provides a tasty introduction into such an > ideal platform for a scientist, and then brief glance overview how it > addresses those topics everyone in scientific communities > drooling about: reproducibility (e.g. snapshoting with cpack, VMs), > sharing (obvious for anyone in FOSS, but might be worth making it > explicit), methodologies rapid dissemination and adoption, > community-driven (once again -- obvious, but making explicit lack of > commercial company baby sitting etc, would imho be beneficial), etc. > > interested to join? I think I will start composing it time > permitting... You are right. We suck at PR. This sounds as great ideas. Count me in!
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