Debian Science
Infrastructure
Website: DebianScience
Interacting with the team
Email contact: debian-science@lists.debian.org
Public IRC channel: #debian-science on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
Usual roles
FrédéricLehobey (IRC nick fdl) edits DebianScience wiki pages, put debtags/usertags on ITPs and maintains debian-science package in svn (that produces the Sentinel pages)
Task description
The Debian Science project aims at presenting Debian packages useful for researchers and scientists. It is a placeholder for fields where a critical mass for a specific Team has not been reached yet. Notice that many more specific and specialized (packaging) Teams already exist in Debian (see below).
DebianScience is a place where to coordinate, share common problems and solutions.
Get involved
Join debian-science mailing list, work on the ?wiki pages, report about interesting scientific free sofware (fill RFP).
Classify and rate scientific software (debtags and ITPs), package free software with relevant teams (see below), update cdd-dev science-* metapackages.
Work on tools for automatically building live-media from cdd-dev metapackages, work on repositories for packages that cannot easily be added to Debian (large data, automatically produced packages, etc.)
More stuff
If you are interested in scientific software in Debian, you might be interested in those teams as well:
DebianMed Debian Medicine custom Debian distribution (much biology and imaging in it)
debichem Chemistry packaging
Teams/DebianGis Geographical Information Systems
?PkgElectronics Electronics packaging team
NeuroDebian Debian Neuroscience