Bits moved from other DebianScience pages that should find their way to better places.
From the original DebianScience page
The goal for this page is to collect material around the ideas discussed at Helen Faulkner's talk at Debconf5.
Where would I put information about #debian-science on oftc? There's also wiki.debian.org/IRC but it's not complete....
Some ideas emerging from Helen's talk
(please complete)
DebianScience could also be a CDD project.
It could also be turned into a LiveCD. Quantian already does much of this.
- Development frameworks (should be painless):
- kdevelop for KDE
- Anjuta for Gnome
Is Octave really usable? The main differences or missing features with respect to Matlab should be documented.
Easy and simple tools to plot data (possibly separate by scriptable and/or gui, plotting for papers vs for 'exploring' data)
Necessity of a good Fortran integration
- Requires also libs (e.g. for FFT) which are often present in add-ons for commercial compilers (FFTW connection in Fortran working now?)
- Useful tools for writing papers - word processing and !LaTeX
- LyX (LaTeX front-end providing LaTeX perfect results in beautiful easy-to-use WYSIWYM environment)
- kile (KDE LaTeX editor)
- winefish (GTK-based LaTeX editor - a fork of bluefish)
- openoffice.org (office suite - good but not 100% !MSOffice filters)
- Useful mathematical libraries
FFTW and FFTW3 (Fast Fourier Transforms)
?ATLAS and LAPACK (Linear Algebra)
GSL (special functions, pseudorandom numbers, optimizers, solvers, etc. etc.) - ATLAS and LAPACK and BLAS will be installed by default dependencies if you install GSL in debian sarge
GLPK (linear, integer and mixed programming library)
Unfilled needs
Other contributions
(some thoughts added by smoe):
Independent from Helen's presentations that I cannot access at the moment there is
- A technical side of things
- Open Hardware for data aquisition
- Linux Lab Project
- Huge amount of software
Take a little trouble to make your software package packageable
- End user applications
- Kstars / general astronomy
- K12 / Education
- Debian-Junior
- Things working in the background
- A community side of things
- This wiki page
- Debian at large
- Others
- This
DebianScienceSampleLetter, a template for sending letters to scientists who released software without licenses.