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Astronomy in Debian Science
The Debian Science web sentinel contains tasks with astronomy applications and tools to develop astronomy applications. It also shows some work in progress.
We are currently working on the creation of a specific blend for astronomy, which should cover both amateur and professional astronomers. The rest of the page is just a common scratchpad for ideas. Feel free to add your own ideas.
Ideas for a Debian Astronomy Blend
The discussion about the blend is in debian-astro@lists.debian.org. Additional to editing this document, please join the discussion there.
Goals
- Create and maintain packages for astronomy related software
- Provide a standard environment for astronomers and observatories to develop own software
- Coordinate efforts with other distributions
- Involve upstream authors to make software distribution-friendly
Participants
Please add yourself here if you are interested.
- Ole Streicher
- Thibaut Paumard
- Steffen Möller
Next todo
- Decide for a name
- Setup Debian infrastructure, create mailing list etc.
- Startup sprint
- Collect interests in contributing:
- individuals
- instrument software development groups
Package categories
By topic
- amateurs
- observational astronomy
- cosmology
- high energy astropyhsics (also somehow related to high energy physics)
- Observatories and specific pipelines
By environment
- shell (like wcstools, qfits tools)
- python (matplotlib, astropy, numpy and such)
tcl (probably outdated? fitstcl & Co.)
- IRAF (hard to bring into Debian), ...
- IDL (non-free; what can be replaced by gdl? what about putting code to contrib?)
Software recommendations from other addons
ESO scisoft http://www.eso.org/sci/software/scisoft/
Other distributions
Debian-based
Distroastro http://www.distroastro.org/
Ubuntu Astronomy Remix http://www.fisica.edu.uy/~sroland/uar/project.html (2011; almost dead)
Mailing lists and user groups on other distributions
Fedora astronomy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/astronomy/
Gentoo (quite inactive): http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Astronomy
No user groups on OpenSUSE, Mageia, ?ArchLinux, ?ScientificLinux
Source Code directories
Astropysics Source Code Library http://ascl.net (already contacted)
Skysoft http://www.skysoft.org
Publication of efforts
Should we publish our efforts? Where?