On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 13:31:59 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
Hello Ankur,
Hi Amit!
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:25 PM Ankur Sinha
<sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
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Welcome to the group! I hope you are familiar with Fedora Scientific [1] - it
is an effort to promote fedora as a open science platform.
Yes! I keep asking my lab mates to install it. Thanks so much for
working on this!
We will also be having Vagrant boxes [2] with the Fedora 28 release.
Since I personally am not involved in scientific research any more, my
efforts on fedora scientific is more or less in a "maintenance" mode -
hence, if you have ideas, we should look to collaborate to help take
it to the next level!
Yes, of course! I intend to remain in research (going to go looking for
post-docs soon) so I'll be around to keep things going. I'm trying to
focus my Fedora contributions towards Science now so that my $dayjob and
Fedora work are somewhat in sync :)
My priority currently is to have a Fedora Workstation based NeuroFedora
ISO to provide neuroscientists with a ready to use system. My experience
at the lab, even while only anecdotal, suggests the following:
- neuroscience is very interdisciplinary
- people with a computing background are a *minority* (I'm only 1 of
~10 people in the lab that has a computing background---the others are
physicists/biologists/mathematicians/psychologists/chemists).
- researchers, especially senior researchers that have very limited time
want a system that "just works". They do not have time to build/debug
software, and often this results in them moving to Mac/Windows where
binaries are available.
- some form of technical support is required (also results in people
moving to proprietary tools that may have a support channel)
- documentation is a must, even if it is just a list of links---people
from non-computing backgrounds do not tend to read source code to
learn tools/libraries.
I expect I'll use the Fedora Scientific image as a base image and build
on that. ;)
Off the top of my head, I have one or two ideas:
- Does it make sense to bring the various specific SIGs under the
Science SIG? NeuroFedora[1] would fall under Scientific, and so would
the ML sig[2] and others. Specifically:
* it would make the Science SIG the general purpose base that various
specific sciences can build on
* given the massive overlap in packages, we'd all be able to help each
other out with maintaining common packages. The neurosig, for example,
shares package maintaining responsibilities[3] and the robotics and
astro SIGs seem to do that too[4,5]. Could we perhaps make the "base"
packages owned by the Science SIG as the "core" set in a way similar
to how Fedora modularity works?
If the above seems like a good idea, I can reach out to the various SIGs
and see what they think about it. More could be done then:
* What do folks think of using "Science" as a tag on Ask Fedora for
users to ask questions at? I could add subtags for the various
sciences? (Ask Fedora is now hosted by upstream for us, so it works
quite nicely).
- I'm really glad the science SIG has documentation. Are there any plans
to migrate it over to the new
docs.fedoraproject.org website[6]? I'm
hoping I can get the docs team to do a classroom session on writing
docs[7]. We could then have a similar structure there: common
information under "Science SIG" and each speciality could have its own
documentation too.
I also have the GitHub Fedora Scientific organization [3] where I
maintain some
related projects and couple of other contributors also have imported their
projects to (as far as I can recall) to help their own packaging efforts.
Ah, may I please join it? My github username is: sanjayankur31[8].
Please feel free to ping me on issues I may be able to help with.
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/NeuroFedora
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/ML
[3]
https://src.fedoraproject.org/group/neuro-sig
[4]
https://src.fedoraproject.org/group/robotics-sig
[5]
https://src.fedoraproject.org/group/astro-sig
[6]
https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/en_GB/docs/
[7]
https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/issue/22
[8]
https://github.com/sanjayankur31
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha