On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 June 2015 at 23:54, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: >> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>> Seems like the easiest path would be to make sure all the astronomy >>> packages land on the Science / KDE spin that already exists and do a >>> lot of marketing / blogging / etc. to a targeted group of "citizen >>> astronomers". For that matter, maybe their should be a rebranding of >>> the spin as "Fedora for Citizen Scientists". >> >> What's the problem with having a dedicated Astronomy spin? >> >> The thing is that KStars is quite large (it contains a lot of data), as are >> the other scientific applications when taken together. Having both on one >> big spin is not necessarily the best approach. > > > I agree. The professional and amateur Astronomy community is a large > one, and having a spin targetting that community directly would be a > very good marketing move. I am very much for this (and not an > Astronomer).
I like the idea also, and by suggesting alternatives I didn't mean to indicate a tepid opinion. -- Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
