Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

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On 28 June 2015 at 23:54, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> Seems like the easiest path would be to make sure all the astronomy
>> packages land on the Science / KDE spin that already exists and do a
>> lot of marketing / blogging / etc. to a targeted group of "citizen
>> astronomers". For that matter, maybe their should be a rebranding of
>> the spin as "Fedora for Citizen Scientists".
>
> What's the problem with having a dedicated Astronomy spin?
>
> The thing is that KStars is quite large (it contains a lot of data), as are
> the other scientific applications when taken together. Having both on one
> big spin is not necessarily the best approach.


I agree. The professional and amateur Astronomy community is a large
one, and having a spin targetting that community directly would be a
very good marketing move. I am very much for this (and not an
Astronomer).
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