On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 02:24:46AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Since all of those components are available already, what particular > > > features are you looking for? You could just take plain Debian (or > > > NeuroDebian, e.g. our virtualbox image) image of any kind, install > > > all those apps and "be done". > > > The comparison with SkoleLinux/DebianEdu makes me wonder whether > > NeuroDebian would become a real official Blend. > > eh heh, no time has left for Blending ;) > > So that you do not think that we are lazy booms,
I never assumed this. :-) > and since it may be it > would be of interest for some debian-science folks, I am happy to > present you the other collective baby of ours: http://datalad.org . You > can treat as a Debian on git and git-annex steroids for data ;) A > sample, primarily neurosciency (but there is little to nothing > neuroscience specific in the guts of it, "data distribution" is > here: http://datasets.datalad.org/ . Soon we should provide a "Debian > apt repository" view of it for easy apt-get'ing whatever is needed. Sounds really cool. Also here my (frequently repeated) suggestion applies: Try to integrate better into Debian, find friends working on the same goal. (In other words: Think Blend-ish to get more people involved.) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
