I already thought about a "Scientific & Astronomy", but I don't know a nice way to promote it. Astronomy is also just science… But if we only call it "Scientific", we loose the amateurs. I'm an astronomer and physics student (=> I promote Scientific Spin quite often at courses) and know the communities in astronomy and astrophysics quite well. Many people are looking for a special Linux for astronomy, so I think we need something with "Astronomy" in its name. And you really need something which is ready to use. When you say "You just have to install this and this" you start losing people again. This is my experience and I started with a Fedora Astronomy Remix about two years ago, many people in local community use Fedora now. Because of this success I want to make it available as an official contribution and tribute to Fedora. So IMHO it's not only a question of package collection, but also a question of marketing. On 06/26/2015 11:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Christian Dersch <lupinix@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Additional info: Of course an "Astronomy Tools" group is a nice idea too! >> But it doesn't replace the Spin as the "download, boot and try it" idea >> doesn't work without a spin. > A possible work around: > It's possible to install the group with live media without installing > it. To make it persistent, the promotion can include a tip on creating > a persistent overlay at the time the media is created. Then people can > try and retry as well as share it. > > What about a Scientific & Astronomy spin? Looks like Scientific uses > KDE though, *shrug*. > > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
