Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-29 Thread Christian Dersch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thank you very much for your feedback! So it seems that a dedicated Astronomy Spin will be a benefit for Fedora :) @Software bundles: There may be two of them: Observational Astronomy and Astronomical Data Analysis On 29.06.2015 14:37, Matthew

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:45:31PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: 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

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:41:04AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 10:32 -0400, Jan Kurik wrote: = Proposed Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Astronomy_Spin Change owner(s): Christian Dersch lupinix at mailbox dot org

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-29 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Christian Dersch lupi...@mailbox.org wrote: Additional info: Of course an Astronomy Tools group is a nice idea too! But it doesn't replace the Spin as the download, boot and try it idea doesn't work without a spin. A possible work around: It's possible

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Miloslav Trmač m...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Christian Dersch lupi...@mailbox.org wrote: Additional info: Of course an Astronomy Tools group is a nice idea too! But it doesn't replace the Spin as the download, boot and try it idea

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
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

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-28 Thread Corey Leong
A Fedora for Citizen Scientists spin may be confused with my spin in development, Fedora Netizen, a portmanteau of internet and citizen. Suggest sticking with Fedora Astronomy or as an alternative, Fedora Space, for reducing any confusion between the two spins. On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM,

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-28 Thread Jonathan Underwood
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

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-28 Thread Chris Murphy
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

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-27 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 26/06/15 15:11 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: What about a Scientific Astronomy spin? Looks like Scientific uses KDE though, *shrug*. I thought the point is that basing Astronomy on KDE is preferable, so that's a Good Thing, surely? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-26 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 10:32 -0400, Jan Kurik wrote: = Proposed Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Astronomy_Spin Change owner(s): Christian Dersch lupinix at mailbox dot org A Fedora Spin providing a complete toolchain for both amateur and

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-26 Thread Christian Dersch
I already thought about a Scientific Astronomy, but I don't know a nice way to promote it. Astronomy is also just science… But if we only call it Scientific, we loose the amateurs. I'm an astronomer and physics student (= I promote Scientific Spin quite often at courses) and know the communities

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Christian Dersch lupi...@mailbox.org wrote: Additional info: Of course an Astronomy Tools group is a nice idea too! But it doesn't replace the Spin as the download, boot and try it idea doesn't work without a spin. A possible work around: It's possible to

Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

2015-06-26 Thread Christian Dersch
Additional info: Of course an Astronomy Tools group is a nice idea too! But it doesn't replace the Spin as the download, boot and try it idea doesn't work without a spin. On 06/26/2015 10:28 PM, Christian Dersch wrote: Hi, I'm the change owner. The benefit is a ready to work Fedora for