Astronomy special interest group

Fedora Astronomy group

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Goal of Fedora Astronomy group is to gather people interested to improve support for astronomers and astrophysicists.

Packagers/Reviewers/People interested

• MarekMahut (contact in case of problems with mailing list, trac et al)
• SergioPascual
• DebarshiRay
• JeffSpaleta
• StephenSmoogen
• LubomirKundrak
• MamoruTasaka
• MatthewTruch
• SubhodipBiswas
• MichaelUghetto
• ParagNemade
• DouglasMcClendon
• HuzaifaSidhpurwala
• MilosJakubicek

Communication

• Community around Fedora Astronomy SIG have regular meetings .
• For communication about Astronomy in Fedora, we are using our mailing list (archives ).
• For general astronomy communication, feel free to join #astronomy @ irc.freenode.org.

Projects

Thanks to Fedora Infrastructure team, we have our own Trac (svn) at https://fedorahosted.org/astronomy/ .

• Fedora Astronomy Spin - The goal is to create a Live media spin (that fits on CD) containing a set of tools for astronomers and astrophysicists.
• Fedora Astronomy bookmarks - Collection of cool astronomy links for your firefox.
• Fedora Astronomy menus - Desktop menus for Astronomy applications.

Packages

First step to improve the support is to package usefull open-source tools.

• Packages already in Fedora
• Packages under review
• Refused packages
• Proposed packages

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