Hello Joachim, you're welcome! Nice to see other astrophysicists from Germany here :) I'm working on classification problems (mostly variable stars) using modern machine learning algorithms. Do you already know our Special Interest Groups: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG Greetings, Christian On 12/11/2015 08:20 PM, Joachim Frieben wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am a physicist from Germany. I began using GNU/Linux as my main OS back in 1998 starting with Red Hat Linux 5.0 and going through every single iteration of Red Hat Linux and Fedora ever since. Throughout these years I have contributed to Fedora mainly through postings to various Red Hat mailing lists and by reporting numerous bugs to the Red Hat Bugzilla. > > In the context of my research in the fields of theoretical relativistic astrophysics and numerical relativity I have been using Fedora for > numerical simulations, data analysis, and visualization but also for writing scientific publications or presentations. > > A very popular plotting package used by the astrophysics community is PGPLOT [1] which, however, is not open source and therefore only available through the RPMFUSION project [2]. An open source and modern alternative which aims at becoming a full replacement of the former is and suitable for adoption by Fedora is the GIZA library [3]. I have started contributing to the upstream project earlier this year and recently converted the source package from using a proprietary make system to using GNU Autotools. I have now packaged a tentative Fedora package of the latest release giza-0.9.4 and submitted it for package review. The corresponding review request can be found at: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187030 > > I further hope that adoption by the Fedora Project would help to increase GIZA's user base and thus speed up the development process through bug reports, user requests, and direct contributions to the code base. > > Cheers > > Joachim Frieben > > > [1] www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/ > [2] http://www.rpmfusion.org > [3] http://giza.sf.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
