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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]]
* [[User:sagitter|Antonio Trande]]
* [[ChitleshGoorah]]
* [[ChristianIseli]]
* [[ChristopherMeng]]
* [[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]]
* [[User:frenchrh|Roger French]]
* [[PatriceDumas]]
* [[SantoshKumar]]
* [[FabianAffolter]]
* [[SergioPascual]]
* [[SergioPascual]]
* [[User:sic|Stuart Campbell]]
* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[MarekMahut]]
* [[User:codysmith|Cody Smith ]]
* [[StuartCampbell]]
* [[User:Computience|Noah Lee]]
* [[User:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
* [[User:Jjames|Jerry James]]
* [[User:Jussilehtola| Susi Lehtola]]
* [[User:Sebhtml|Sébastien Boisvert]]
* [[User:kkofler|Kevin Kofler]]
* [[User:kkofler|Kevin Kofler]]
* [[PierreYvesChibon]]
* [[User:mrceresa|Mario Ceresa]]
* [[ChristianIseli]]
* [[User:naves|Hector Naves]]
* [[EricTanguy]]
* [[User:Rathann|Dominik Mierzejewski]]
* [[User:Jjames|Jerry James]]
* [[User:Richardvj11|Richard Vijay]]
* [[NicolaSoranzo]]
* [[User:supercyper|Chen Lei]]
* [[SantoshKumar]]
* [[User:Vedranm|Vedran Miletić]]
* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[User:ynemoy|Yaakov Nemoy]]
* [[MichaelUghetto|Michael Ughetto]]
* [[User:yumas|Yumas Hankouri]]
* [[User:Jussilehtola| Jussi Lehtola]]
* [[User:devinbost|Devin Bost]]
 
* [[User:Payas|Payas Awadhutkar]]
== Documentation ==
* [[User:nbecker|Neal Becker]]
 
* [[user:circuitron|Amos Ezeme]]
* [[UsingMultipleMPIs]] - How to use lam and openmpi on the same system.
* [[user:Sidh25|Siddharth Waikar]]
 
* [[user:raymondpete|Raymond Pete]]
 
* [[user:trycity|Imran Khan]]
== Packages awaiting review ==
* [[user:bat|Baptiste Robert]]
* [http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/ MPICH2]: [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171993 #171993]  
* [[user:evalero|Esbel Valero Orellana]]
* [http://pyquante.sourceforge.net/ PyQuante] - Python Quantum Chemistry [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468579 #468579]
* [[User:markbruns|Mark Bruns]]
* [http://root.cern.ch/ ROOT] - High energy physics data analysis package [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744 #451744]
* [[User:j0hn|John Lockman]]
* [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:dansci|Daniel Ścisłowski]]
* [http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ latex2rtf] - Tool to convert LaTeX documents into RTF [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469569 #469569]
* [[User:jsandys|Jeff Sandys]]
* [http://www.open64.net open64] - The Open64 compiler collection [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470830]
* [[User:ocramas|Marco Aguero]]
 
* [[User:lupinix|Christian Dersch]]
== Potential Packages ==
* [[User:besser82|Björn Esser]]
* [[Asana Math font]]
* [[User:laxmikantpm | Laxmikant P Metri]]
* [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:Audrissie | Audriana Simms]]
* [http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/repository.html#list Ideas of packages for bioinformatics base on bio-linux].
* [[User:kookooss | Saeed Bahmanabadi]]
* [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:gawbul | Steve Moss]]
* [http://www.sagemath.org SAGE] Mathematica-like open source mathematics software ([[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE| SAGE packaging discussion]] )
* [[User:gnovi | Praveen Patil]]
* [http://www.scilab.org/ Scilab] - Numerical computational package developed by INRIA and ENPC in France
* [[User:loveshack | Dave Love]]
* [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:spoonhard | Beau Salwin]]
* [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:kobrien | Ken O'Brien]]
 
== Bioinformatics WishList ==
 
* [[SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList| Bioinformatics WishList]]  
 


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


* [[SIGs/SciTech/PackageList|  List of scientific/engineering packages]]
== Ideas and proposals ==


* [[SIGs/SciTech/COPR|SciTech COPR]]
* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE|SAGE packaging discussion]]
* [[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]


== List of applications we will NOT package ==
== Packages ==


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


=== Packages awaiting review ===


<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.)
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>


[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505154 The tracker is in Bugzilla].


{| border="1"
== Communication ==
|-
| '''Name''' || '''Description''' || '''Why it won't be packaged'''
|-
| [http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ VMD] || Molecular Visualization and Analysis Package || Non-Free license
|-
| foo || bar app || patented
|}


== Ideas/Proposals ==
* Mailing list:{{fplist|scitech}}
* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE| SAGE packaging discussion]]
* {{fpchat|#fedora-science}} on the freenode IRC network
* MPI work:
* Use environment-modules to improve the "MPI alternatives" situation -- please see the proposal at the bottom of [[EdHill]]


[[Category:Packaging SIGs]]
[[Category:Packaging SIGs]]

Revision as of 08:29, 29 March 2016

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

Subcategories

This category has only the following subcategory.