Fedora Astronomy SIG Meeting 18-01-2008 ======================================= Agenda ====== - Introduction. - Review of tasks from last meeting. - Free discussion, mind storming Note ==== Only two people for the meeting :( Next meeting ============ Friday, March 1st, 2008 at 16:00 UTC Meeting log =========== 16:33 sergiopr > [n=sergiopr@xxxxxxxxxxxx] joins #fedora-meeting 16:34 marek hey sergiopr 16:35 sergiopr hello marek 16:35 marek anyone else for astronomy meeting around? 16:39 marek ok 16:39 marek :) 16:39 marek let's wait 2 minutes and we can start 16:39 sergiopr Ok 16:43 marek changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Fedora Astronomy SIG Meeting -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy | Introduction. 16:43 marek who's around? 16:43 * marek Mahut 16:43 sergiopr sergiopr 16:44 marek ok, I guess we are alone :) 16:44 marek changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Fedora Astronomy SIG Meeting -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy | Review of tasks from last meeting. 16:44 marek let me start with artwork 16:45 marek 1) I propose to use as default wallpaper "earth_from_space.jpg" which is in default install now 16:46 marek 2) we have a proposition of logo from Nicu, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DesignService?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=fedora_astronomy_nicu1.png 16:46 stickster_a | changes nick to stickster 16:46 marek let me know what do you think about the logo 16:46 sergiopr very nice 16:46 marek I think the idea is good but need some work, for example I don't like the little blue planet 16:46 marek I'll contact Nicu and ask if he can help us 16:46 sergiopr perhaps in other color? 16:46 marek sergiopr: yes, true 16:47 marek or as the moon 16:47 sergiopr I like the eclipse-fedora logo 16:47 sergiopr The idea is simillar 16:47 marek oh, do you have one around? I don't thave eclipse instaled 16:48 sergiopr let me see 16:49 marek http://sourceware.org/eclipse/ this one? 16:50 sergiopr Yep 16:50 marek ok 16:50 marek and what do you think about the wallpaper? 16:51 sergiopr I like it also 16:52 marek ok 16:52 sergiopr I have used also a landscape of mars as a wallpaper 16:52 sergiopr But this is ok I think 16:52 marek the good thing is that's already in fedora 16:52 sergiopr Yes 16:53 marek regarding packaging, redmode is already approved 16:53 marek I've also created fedora-bookmarks package 16:53 marek waiting for review 16:53 marek anything new on your side? 16:53 sergiopr I have abandoned midas :( 16:53 marek why? 16:53 sergiopr It's kind o nightmare 16:53 marek I belive that =) 16:54 sergiopr I can compile it 16:54 sergiopr BUt not install it in a sane way 16:55 sergiopr There lots of files left, source code, object files, binaries with rpath set 16:55 marek uhm, ugly 16:55 marek but that's not a problem 16:55 sergiopr empty files, 16:55 marek ok 16:55 sergiopr I can give you my specfile, if you wan to try 16:56 marek do you count to take anythin else for packaging? 16:56 marek sergiopr: ok, send it to me please 16:56 sergiopr I know you wolud ask that :) 16:56 marek =) 16:56 sergiopr I have packaged cloudy 16:56 sergiopr A photoionization modeling tool 16:57 marek yup, saw it in under review section 16:57 marek who was interested in gnu/radio maintaining btw? 16:57 sergiopr I don't know 16:58 marek ok, I took vacation from work next week 16:58 marek so I'm planning to do some major work 16:58 marek changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Fedora Astronomy SIG Meeting -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy | Free discussion, mind storming 16:59 marek ok 16:59 marek I thought to register fedora-astronomy.org and redirect it to fedora wiki page 16:59 marek what do you think? 16:59 marek would be easier to refer to that when you speak of the spin 16:59 marek but I'm not sure about domain name 16:59 sergiopr Do you think it's necessary? 17:00 marek well, few days ago I've told my friend about the project and he asked me, where can I find it. I though it may be a good idea to have this kind of redirect 17:00 marek or maybe I can ask infrastructure team to have astronomy.fedoraproject.org redirect 17:01 marek not sure what's better 17:01 sergiopr Well, it's easier to remember a simple name 17:01 sergiopr I would prefer the astronomy.fedora thing 17:01 marek true 17:01 sergiopr It makes more evident the conexion with fedora 17:01 marek because I would like to have short address for priting on DVDs, banners etc... 17:01 marek http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy is too long :) 17:02 sergiopr Yes, its tru 17:02 sergiopr true 17:03 sergiopr We could try first the astronomy.fedorablablah thing, and if it's not possible, then register other domain 17:03 marek ok 17:03 marek reggarding the time like, I would like to have our first test ISO with Fedora 9 beta release 17:04 marek so, I will try to get it week, two before Fedora 9 beta 17:04 sergiopr Fedora beta is due to... 17:04 marek 13 March 2008 17:04 sergiopr Less than one month 17:05 marek yup 17:05 marek but after Fedora 9 release our work is not finish :) 17:05 marek we will roll-out spin with Fedora 10 too... 17:05 marek with more packages! 17:05 marek :) 17:05 sergiopr Yes, of course 17:05 marek I think Fedora 9 will have a good feedback from community 17:05 sergiopr It's only the begining! 17:06 marek in question of what package is missing etc.. 17:06 marek I count to contact meade, bressers etc... after Fedora 10 17:07 marek and push in order to distribute the spin with their telescopes 17:07 marek for free 17:07 sergiopr Very nice 17:07 marek I had an email exchange with one guy from celestron, he told me if I have something solid they will consider it for 100% 17:08 marek fact I didn't know that celestron have one small team for open source stuff 17:08 sergiopr Good move 17:08 marek (how to integrate their scopes with open source etc...) 17:09 marek ok 17:09 sergiopr My spec of midas is in http://sergiopr.fedorapeople.org/midas.spec 17:09 marek that's all I had for today 17:09 marek sergiopr: thanks! 17:09 sergiopr What about openuniverse https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426302 17:10 Sparks < [n=Sparks@fedora/Sparks] quits [Read error: 113 (No route to host)] 17:10 marek sergiopr: I count finish this one next week 17:10 sergiopr ok 17:11 marek ds9 is working fine? 17:11 marek I had no chance to play much with it 17:11 sergiopr yep 17:11 marek cool 17:11 sergiopr the people in my department it's using it without complain 17:11 marek cool! 17:12 marek it's sad that iraf is not complatible 17:12 sergiopr iraf it's other nightmare 17:12 sergiopr I'm collaborating with a japanesse guy porting it to x86_64 17:12 marek sergiopr: nice 17:13 sergiopr it has things like a duplicated libm 17:13 marek but it's still not fedora-complatible? 17:13 sergiopr or libc 17:13 sergiopr no 17:14 sergiopr the problem it's ncar grapics 17:14 sergiopr http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ 17:14 sergiopr I don' know if ncar it's free now 17:14 marek so, why is iraf incompatible? 17:15 marek it's not clear to me 17:15 marek because of ncar? 17:15 sergiopr because the version harcoded in iraf is 20 years old 17:15 marek :) 17:15 sergiopr and then it was non free 17:15 marek hmm 17:15 marek did you tried it with never version? 17:16 marek maybe not the newest one, but the first open source one 17:16 sergiopr it's mixed with the iraf code 17:16 sergiopr it's not trivial to change it 17:16 marek ah 17:17 marek is iraf license permitting fork? 17:17 sergiopr iraf it's written in a strange language 17:17 sergiopr called SPP 17:17 sergiopr mixture og C and fortran 17:17 sergiopr the license it's MIT 17:18 sergiopr does it permitt fork? 17:18 marek not sure, I guess not :( 17:18 marek I'll investigate it 17:18 * marek notes 17:20 marek ok good 17:20 marek anything else? 17:20 sergiopr http://sourceforge.net/projects/iraf64/ 17:20 sergiopr That's the page in sourceforge 17:21 sergiopr And that's all I think 17:21 marek nice 17:21 marek ok thanks sergiopr! 17:21 marek changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Topic for #fedora-meeting is Channel is used by various Fedora groups and 17:22 marek changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Topic for #fedora-meeting is Channel is used by various Fedora groups and committees for their regular meetings | Note that meetings often get logged | For questions about using Fedora please ask in #fedora | See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/FedoraMeetingChannel for meeting schedule 17:22 marek there :) 17:22 sergiopr So, enjoy your vacations, marek 17:22 marek sergiopr: thanks! 17:22 marek bye 17:22 sergiopr bye -- Marek Mahut https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/ Fedora Project http://www.jamendo.com/
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