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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]]
* [[User:canderson9|Christiano Anderson]]
* [[ChristopherMeng]]
* [[DejiAkingunola]]
* [[User:Denisarnaud |Denis Arnaud]]
* [[EdHill]]
* [[EdHill]]
* [[EricTanguy]]
* [[FabianAffolter]]
* [[GerardMilmeister]]
* [[JasonTibbitts]]
* [[JasonTibbitts]]
* [[DejiAkingunola]]
* [[User:Jcatumba|Jorge Catumba]]
* [[GerardMilmeister]]
* [[JoseMatos]]
* [[MarekMahut]]
* [[User:talcite|Matthew Chan]]
* [[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:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
* [[User:Payas|Payas Awadhutkar]]
 
* [[User:nbecker|Neal Becker]]
== Documentation ==
* [[user:circuitron|Amos Ezeme]]
 
* [[user:Sidh25|Siddharth Waikar]]
* [[UsingMultipleMPIs]] - How to use lam and openmpi on the same system.
* [[user:raymondpete|Raymond Pete]]
 
* [[user:trycity|Imran Khan]]
 
* [[user:bat|Baptiste Robert]]
== Packages awaiting review ==
* [[user:evalero|Esbel Valero Orellana]]
* [http://root.cern.ch/ ROOT] - High energy physics data analysis package [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744 #451744]
* [[User:markbruns|Mark Bruns]]
* [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:j0hn|John Lockman]]
* [http://www.open64.net open64] - The Open64 compiler collection [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470830 #470830]
* [[User:dansci|Daniel Ścisłowski]]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pypar pypar] - Parallel programming with Python [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487521 #487521]
* [[User:jsandys|Jeff Sandys]]
* [http://gri.sourceforge.net/ Gri] - GRI scientific plotting language [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484386 #484386]
* [[User:ocramas|Marco Aguero]]
* [http://stxxl.sourceforge.net/  STXXL] - STXXL extra large C++ Standard Template Library implementation [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474787 #474787 ]
* [[User:lupinix|Christian Dersch]]
* [http://www.scilab.org/ scilab ] - Scilab numerical computing and data processing environment [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472639 #472639]
* [[User:besser82|Björn Esser]]
* [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:laxmikantpm | Laxmikant P Metri]]
* [http://home.gna.org/elfelli/ elfelli] - Visualisation tool for flux lines - [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496742 #496742]
* [[User:Audrissie | Audriana Simms]]
 
* [[User:kookooss | Saeed Bahmanabadi]]
== Potential Packages ==
* [[User:gawbul | Steve Moss]]
* [[Asana Math font]]
* [[User:gnovi | Praveen Patil]]
* [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:loveshack | Dave Love]]
* [http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/repository.html#list Ideas of packages for bioinformatics base on bio-linux].
* [[User:spoonhard | Beau Salwin]]
* [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:kobrien | Ken O'Brien]]
* [http://www.sagemath.org SAGE] Mathematica-like open source mathematics software ([[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE| SAGE packaging discussion]] )
* [[User:anazli | Andreas Nazlidis]]
* [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:davidcl | Clément David]]
* [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:rqds12 | Seth Kroeker]]
* [http://www.ballview.org/ BALL and BALLView] - A molecular modeling and visualization application and framework.
* [[User:jamesturner246 | James Paul Turner]]
 
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 ==


* [[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
|-
| [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 ==
* 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 00:02, 20 November 2017

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.