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
professional astronomers.
== Detailed Description ==
In both amateur and professional astronomy and astrophysics Linux is
a very popular operating system. More and more data analysis is
performed using Python, especially the astropy project is a quite new
effort providing a professional toolchain. The Astronomy Spin
provides a complete scientific Python environment (2 and 3) as well
as the AstrOmatic software. For observational astronomy, KStars
provides a complete solution for astrophotography using the INDI
library. In addition to an astronomical collection of packages the
spin also adds a menu for astronomy to make work more comfortable.
== Scope ==
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: Add spin to spin-kickstarts, ensure spin has
been tested, and release with rest of spins
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval: Requested
I don't really see what benefit there is to having a spin for this. It
sounds like it might be just as effective to work with the GNOME
Software folks on getting an Astronomy Tools group in the Software app
made highly visible.
We could then just advertise Astronomy-related functionality as a new
feature of Workstation.