On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Andreas Tille wrote: > 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.) DataLad blend? ;) we have a datalad package... that repository already contains what will be hundreds (if not thousands) packages; not sure if it would be feasible to even contemplate introducing them into stock debian... so how to "integrate"? the only thing which comes to mind: - similar to the neurodebian package via debconf adding apt line(s) for neurodebian repo, we could have datasets-datalad package which would do similar thing -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
