Hello,
I'd initially posted this to the CommOps list and was directed here to Mindshare.
I've recently resurrected the NeuroFedora SIG (it's my area of research so I'm quite happy to maintain it), but while I was looking around I saw that we already have a few science related SIGs in Fedora---I was aware of maybe one or two, but not all of them, in spite of one or two being featured on labs.fp.o!
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/bigdata - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/ML - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/NeuroFedora - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech
Now, mostly, these are groups of people who come together and package up software that is relevant to the particular field, and the SIGs work independently of each other. However when one looks at them, one realises that lots of work that each SIG does overlaps with other SIGs.
I think it's quite within our community goals to further Open Science. So, I was wondering if we could organise the SIGs better under a common umbrella: "Fedora <3 science" or something of the sort. It'll give all SIGs a common theme. It'll enable us to market science in Fedora better (or so I think), and it'll enable other community members interested in other sciences to start their own SIGs in the future. Of course, it'll enable better science, and we may even get more scientists involved in FOSS, and giving back to it.
Open Science shares most of the values of FOSS---everyone, whether or not a scientist should be able to obtain and analyse data using tools that should be free of restrictions; everyone should be able to read scientific results (this is part of the Open Access movement); everyone should be able to access, study, learn, and contribute to the scientific process. It is necessary for science informed policy making---especially with things like fake news doing the rounds nowadays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access http://opensourceforneuroscience.org/
What do folks think? I'm happy to help with this, of course---I'd really like to make Fedora a "go-to" distribution for whatever sciences the community can support, not just Neuroscience.
Sharing an update with the list:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/neurofedora-sig-call-for-participati...
On 9/30/18 9:02 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
Hello,
I'd initially posted this to the CommOps list and was directed here to Mindshare.
I've recently resurrected the NeuroFedora SIG (it's my area of research so I'm quite happy to maintain it), but while I was looking around I saw that we already have a few science related SIGs in Fedora---I was aware of maybe one or two, but not all of them, in spite of one or two being featured on labs.fp.o!
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/bigdata
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/ML
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/NeuroFedora
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech
Now, mostly, these are groups of people who come together and package up software that is relevant to the particular field, and the SIGs work independently of each other. However when one looks at them, one realises that lots of work that each SIG does overlaps with other SIGs.
I think it's quite within our community goals to further Open Science. So, I was wondering if we could organise the SIGs better under a common umbrella: "Fedora <3 science" or something of the sort. It'll give all SIGs a common theme. It'll enable us to market science in Fedora better (or so I think), and it'll enable other community members interested in other sciences to start their own SIGs in the future. Of course, it'll enable better science, and we may even get more scientists involved in FOSS, and giving back to it.
Open Science shares most of the values of FOSS---everyone, whether or not a scientist should be able to obtain and analyse data using tools that should be free of restrictions; everyone should be able to read scientific results (this is part of the Open Access movement); everyone should be able to access, study, learn, and contribute to the scientific process. It is necessary for science informed policy making---especially with things like fake news doing the rounds nowadays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access http://opensourceforneuroscience.org/
What do folks think? I'm happy to help with this, of course---I'd really like to make Fedora a "go-to" distribution for whatever sciences the community can support, not just Neuroscience.
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