On 04/18/2012 10:14 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:39:30AM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >>> Following Yaroslav's message, I would like to advertize the migration >>> of the European Synchrotoron (http://www.esrf.eu) at Grenoble to >>> Debian6; succeeding to RedHat4 and Centos5. For the moment, the >>> migration is ongoing: only the computer controlling the particle >>> accelerator, a few data analysis servers and part of the computing >>> cluster has been migrated but most of the computing infrastructure >>> will migrate this year. >> Bravo! > Bravissimo! <praise /> Beyond that Debian employment thingy, what is more to stress is the circle with the community. You administrative and scientific Debian full-timers can fall back to the Debian infrastructure for package management, inter-institutional communication/collaboration ... and extend that for your own benefit.
What I have not seen discussed much, yet, is the cross-architectural benefit for monitoring of scientific (or any) processes. You easily get whatever you need for some interactive low-bandwith communication on your ARM-run mobile. >>> ESRF aims at organizing a workshop around debian, introducing the new >>> operating system for the scientists and explain to IT staff how to >>> distribute and backport software. We would like to invite some >>> representatives of Debian-science to join this workshop. For the moment, >>> neither the date neither the program is fixed. We should have some >>> budget for travel reimbursement. >> Depending on the date, I would interested to come! > I presume the way you are doing it is the only way that I presume the way you > are doing it is the only way that > Same for me. Here, too. The Debian Med sprints are less sprints of Debian-insiders than mini-conferences/workshops of Science-insiders with some affinity to us or already contributing. We asked delegates from various upstream groups, and colleagues from Ubuntu / Bio-Linux to come and learn / think about how to contribute. And they came on their own expense. > I'd volunteer to give talk (did so in the past several > times, last slides are here[1]) or a Debian packaging introduction > workshop - whatever you are interested in. May be we could widen the > MoM[2] effort also to Debian Science. Yes, this is a good idea. A perpetual season of code across all disciplines of science. Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
