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The purpose of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.
The purpose of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.


 
== Members ==
== Packagers/Reviewers/People interested ==
* [[User:Amitksaha|Amit Saha]]
* [[User:amani|A. Mani]]
* [[ChitleshGoorah]]
* [[ChristianIseli]]
* [[DejiAkingunola]]
* [[User:Denisarnaud |Denis Arnaud]]
* [[EdHill]]
* [[EdHill]]
* [[EricTanguy]]
* [[FabianAffolter]]
* [[GerardMilmeister]]
* [[JasonTibbitts]]
* [[JasonTibbitts]]
* [[DejiAkingunola]]
* [[User:Jcatumba|Jorge Catumba]]
* [[GerardMilmeister]]
* [[JoseMatos]]
* [[MarekMahut]]
* [[MichaelUghetto|Michael Ughetto]]
* [[Manan Dey]]
* [[NicolaSoranzo]]
* [[OrionPoplawski]]
* [[OrionPoplawski]]
* [[PatriceDumas]]
* [[PeterLemenkov]]
* [[PierreYvesChibon]]
* [[QuentinSpencer]]
* [[QuentinSpencer]]
* [[ChitleshGoorah]]
* [[User:Rathann|Dominik Mierzejewski]]
* [[JoseMatos]]
* [[RexDieter]]
* [[RexDieter]]
* [[PeterLemenkov]]
* [[SantoshKumar]]
* [[PatriceDumas]]
* [[FabianAffolter]]
* [[SergioPascual]]
* [[SergioPascual]]
* [[StuartCampbell]]
* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[MarekMahut]]
* [[User:codysmith|Cody Smith ]]
* [[StuartCampbell]]
* [[User:Computience|Noah Lee]]
* [[User:kkofler|Kevin Kofler]]
* [[User:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
* [[PierreYvesChibon]]
* [[ChristianIseli]]
* [[EricTanguy]]
* [[User:Jjames|Jerry James]]
* [[User:Jjames|Jerry James]]
* [[NicolaSoranzo]]
* [[SantoshKumar]]
* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[MichaelUghetto|Michael Ughetto]]
* [[User:Jussilehtola| Jussi Lehtola]]
* [[User:Jussilehtola| Jussi Lehtola]]
* [[User:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
* [[User:Sebhtml|Sébastien Boisvert]]
* [[User:ynemoy | Yaakov Nemoy ]]
* [[User:kkofler|Kevin Kofler]]
 
* [[User:mrceresa|Mario Ceresa]]
== Documentation ==
* [[User:naves|Hector Naves]]
 
* [[User:Rathann|Dominik Mierzejewski]]
* [[UsingMultipleMPIs]] - How to use lam and openmpi on the same system.
* [[User:Richardvj11|Richard Vijay]]
 
* [[User:supercyper|Chen Lei]]
 
* [[User:Vedranm|Vedran Miletić]]
== Packages awaiting review ==
* [[User:ynemoy|Yaakov Nemoy]]
* [http://root.cern.ch/ ROOT] - High energy physics data analysis package [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744 #451744]
* [[User:yumas|Yumas Hankouri]]
* [http://trilinos.sandia.gov/ Trilinos] - Collection of packages that support parallel linear algebra computations, solution of linear, non-linear and eigen systems of equations and related capabilities. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453703 #453703]
* [[User:devinbost|Devin Bost]]
* [http://www.open64.net open64] - The Open64 compiler collection [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470830 #470830]
* [[User:Payas|Payas Awadhutkar]]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pypar pypar] - Parallel programming with Python [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487521 #487521]
* [[User:nbecker|Neal Becker]]
* [http://gri.sourceforge.net/ Gri] - GRI scientific plotting language [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484386 #484386]
* [[user:circuitron|Amos Ezeme]]
* [http://stxxl.sourceforge.net/  STXXL] - STXXL extra large C++ Standard Template Library implementation [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474787 #474787 ]
* [[user:Sidh25|Siddharth Waikar]]
* [http://www.scilab.org/ scilab ] - Scilab numerical computing and data processing environment [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472639 #472639]
* [[user:raymondpete|Raymond Pete]]
* [http://arma.sourceforge.net/ Armadillo ] - template C++ linear algebra library with good balance of speed/ease of use [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489686 #489686]
* [[user:trycity|Imran Khan]]
* [http://home.gna.org/elfelli/ elfelli] - Visualisation tool for flux lines - [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496742 #496742]
* [[user:bat|Baptiste Robert]]
 
* [[user:evalero|Esbel Valero Orellana]]
== Potential Packages ==
* [[User:markbruns|Mark Bruns]]
* [[Asana Math font]]
* [[User:j0hn|John Lockman]]
* [http://www.gap-system.org/ GAP] - Computer algebra system - JasonTibbitts [http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpms/gap has a working and up-to-date GAP package], but it needs significant cleanup before it has a chance of passing review.
* [[User:dansci|Daniel Ścisłowski]]
* [http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/repository.html#list Ideas of packages for bioinformatics base on bio-linux].
* [[User:jsandys|Jeff Sandys]]
* [http://www.itk.org/ ITK] - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit - software system to support the [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html Visible Human Project]  
* [[User:lupinix|Christian Dersch]]
* [http://www.sagemath.org SAGE] Mathematica-like open source mathematics software ([[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE| SAGE packaging discussion]] )
* [[User:besser82|Björn Esser]]
* [http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/xpp/xpp.html XPP] - A tool for solving differential equations - Jason Tibbitts has a working package, but the program has such a poor interface that it may not be worth adding to the distro
* [[User:laxmikantpm | Laxmikant P Metri]]
* [http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/ Neuron] - A simulator of neurons and networks, useful for computational biology.  Packages are available upstream; shouldn't be terribly hard to package properly but requires a truly ancient user interface toolkit.
* [[User:Audrissie | Audriana Simms]]
* [http://www.ballview.org/ BALL and BALLView] - A molecular modeling and visualization application and framework.
* [[User:kookooss | Saeed Bahmanabadi]]
 
If you are interested in joining add yourself to the list.
== Bioinformatics WishList ==
 
* [[SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList| Bioinformatics WishList]]  
 
 
== Available Packages ==
 
* [[SIGs/SciTech/PackageList| List of scientific/engineering packages]]  


== Ideas and proposals ==


== List of applications we will NOT package ==
* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE|SAGE packaging discussion]]
* [[UsingMultipleMPIs]] use environment-modules to improve the "MPI alternatives" situation
* [[Features/Ns3|ns-3 network simulator package]]
* Create Fedora Science spin: Community member, Amit Saha has kickstarted this effort. See [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amitksaha his page] for updates.
* It might be interesting to borrow ideas from [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience Debian Science]


* Non-commercial clauses in applications licenses render them invalid for inclusion into Fedora Package Collection.  Such apps are not Free and open source software and violates Clause 6 of the [http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php OSI definition]. See an example of such clause:
== Packages ==


* [[SIGs/SciTech/PackageList|Package list]]


<pre>
=== Packages awaiting review ===
This software may be copied and distributed for educational, research, and not
for profit purposes provided that this copyright and statement are included in
all such copies.  Other copyrights may also apply.
</pre>


Add '''FE-SCITECH''' to the Blocks field of any Science/Technology related review in Bugzilla. (Remember to remove it once the review is passed.)


{| border="1"
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505154 The tracker is in Bugzilla].
|-
| '''Name''' || '''Description''' || '''Why it won't be packaged'''
|-
| [http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ VMD] || Molecular Visualization and Analysis Package || Non-Free license
|-
| [http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/fasta_www2/fasta_down.shtml fasta2 and fasta3] || The FASTA programs find regions of local or global (new) similarity between Protein or DNA sequences || [http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/COPYRIGHT License] contains non-commercial clause
|-
| foo || bar app || patented
|}


== Ideas/Proposals ==
== Communication ==
* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE|  SAGE packaging discussion]]
* MPI work:
* Use environment-modules to improve the "MPI alternatives" situation -- please see the proposal at the bottom of [[EdHill]]


== IRC ==
* Mailing list:{{fplist|scitech}}
Come hang out with us on irc.freenode.net, #fedora-science.
* {{fpchat|#fedora-science}} on the freenode IRC network


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Revision as of 19:38, 5 March 2014

Fedora Science and Technology SIG

Mission

The purpose of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.

Members

If you are interested in joining add yourself to the list.

Ideas and proposals

Packages

Packages awaiting review

Add FE-SCITECH to the Blocks field of any Science/Technology related review in Bugzilla. (Remember to remove it once the review is passed.)

The tracker is in Bugzilla.

Communication

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