I fully agree wit this proposal. Debian and Debian Science deserve being recognized in the field of scientific computing.
I would be happy to help in this endeavor. As to my research all the numerical results we display are done on Debian machines. I haven't found anything else as rich and robust software wise for scientific computing. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]>wrote: > 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... > > Although release time is yet far to reach, I think planing in advance > might only be beneficial especially since in June we should have a good > picture what will be in the release. > > P.S. I haven't cross-posted to other related blends/projects since I > think majority of them are on this list as well... or am I wrong? > > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I would just like you to know that I uploaded a new set of Debian > > Science metapackages. They contain several new dependencies to freshly > > uploaded packages - thanks to you all for working on this. > > > Kind regards > > > Andreas. > > > ----- Forwarded message from Debian FTP Masters < > [email protected]> ----- > > > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:34:30 +0000 > > From: Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> > > To: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>, > > Debian Science Team < > [email protected]> > > Subject: debian-science_0.16_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable > > > > > > Accepted: > > debian-science_0.16.dsc > > to main/d/debian-science/debian-science_0.16.dsc > > debian-science_0.16.tar.gz > > to main/d/debian-science/debian-science_0.16.tar.gz > > science-astronomy-dev_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-astronomy-dev_0.16_all.deb > > science-astronomy_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-astronomy_0.16_all.deb > > science-bci_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-bci_0.16_all.deb > > science-biology_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-biology_0.16_all.deb > > science-chemistry_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-chemistry_0.16_all.deb > > science-config_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-config_0.16_all.deb > > science-dataacquisition-dev_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-dataacquisition-dev_0.16_all.deb > > science-dataacquisition_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-dataacquisition_0.16_all.deb > > science-distributedcomputing_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-distributedcomputing_0.16_all.deb > > science-electronics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-electronics_0.16_all.deb > > science-electrophysiology_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-electrophysiology_0.16_all.deb > > science-engineering-dev_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-engineering-dev_0.16_all.deb > > science-engineering_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-engineering_0.16_all.deb > > science-geography_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-geography_0.16_all.deb > > science-highenergy-physics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-highenergy-physics_0.16_all.deb > > science-imageanalysis_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-imageanalysis_0.16_all.deb > > science-linguistics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-linguistics_0.16_all.deb > > science-machine-learning_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-machine-learning_0.16_all.deb > > science-mathematics-dev_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-mathematics-dev_0.16_all.deb > > science-mathematics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-mathematics_0.16_all.deb > > science-meteorology-dev_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-meteorology-dev_0.16_all.deb > > science-meteorology_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-meteorology_0.16_all.deb > > science-nanoscale-physics-dev_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-nanoscale-physics-dev_0.16_all.deb > > science-nanoscale-physics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-nanoscale-physics_0.16_all.deb > > science-neuroscience-cognitive_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-neuroscience-cognitive_0.16_all.deb > > science-neuroscience-modeling_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-neuroscience-modeling_0.16_all.deb > > science-numericalcomputation_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-numericalcomputation_0.16_all.deb > > science-physics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-physics_0.16_all.deb > > science-psychophysics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-psychophysics_0.16_all.deb > > science-robotics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-robotics_0.16_all.deb > > science-statistics_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-statistics_0.16_all.deb > > science-tasks_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-tasks_0.16_all.deb > > science-typesetting_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-typesetting_0.16_all.deb > > science-viewing_0.16_all.deb > > to main/d/debian-science/science-viewing_0.16_all.deb > > > > Changes: > > debian-science (0.16) unstable; urgency=low > > . > > [ Joost van Baal-Ilić ] > > * tasks/linguistics: add some more dependencies. > > . > > [ Andreas Tille ] > > * debian/control(.stub) > > Standards-Version: 3.9.3 (no changes needed) > > * debian/control: > > Usual changes of dependency based on the resolving of new packages > > in Debian as specified in the tasks files > > * tasks/{robotics,numericalcomputation,mathematics}: > s/octave3.2/octave/ > > Closes: #667587 > > > > Override entries for your package: > > debian-science_0.16.dsc - source misc > > science-astronomy-dev_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-astronomy_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-bci_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-biology_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-chemistry_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-config_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-dataacquisition-dev_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-dataacquisition_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-distributedcomputing_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-electronics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-electrophysiology_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-engineering-dev_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-engineering_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-geography_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-highenergy-physics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-imageanalysis_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-linguistics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-machine-learning_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-mathematics-dev_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-mathematics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-meteorology-dev_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-meteorology_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-nanoscale-physics-dev_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-nanoscale-physics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-neuroscience-cognitive_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-neuroscience-modeling_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-numericalcomputation_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-physics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-psychophysics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-robotics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-statistics_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-tasks_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-typesetting_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > science-viewing_0.16_all.deb - extra science > > > Announcing to [email protected] > > Closing bugs: 667587 > > > > Thank you for your contribution to Debian. > -- > =------------------------------------------------------------------= > Keep in touch www.onerussian.com > Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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