Re: F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).

I like the idea also, and by suggesting alternatives I didn't mean to
indicate a tepid opinion.

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