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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.


== Communication ==
== Members ==
* Mailing list: [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech Fedora Scitech List]  
* [[User:Amitksaha|Amit Saha]]
* #fedora-science on the freenode IRC network
* [[User:amani|A. Mani]]
 
* [[User:sagitter|Antonio Trande]]
== Packagers/Reviewers/People interested ==
* [[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:ynemoy | Yaakov Nemoy ]]
* [[User:nbecker|Neal Becker]]
* [[user:circuitron|Amos Ezeme]]
* [[user:Sidh25|Siddharth Waikar]]
* [[user:raymondpete|Raymond Pete]]
* [[user:trycity|Imran Khan]]
* [[user:bat|Baptiste Robert]]
* [[user:evalero|Esbel Valero Orellana]]
* [[User:markbruns|Mark Bruns]]
* [[User:j0hn|John Lockman]]
* [[User:dansci|Daniel Ścisłowski]]
* [[User:jsandys|Jeff Sandys]]
* [[User:ocramas|Marco Aguero]]
* [[User:lupinix|Christian Dersch]]
* [[User:besser82|Björn Esser]]
* [[User:laxmikantpm | Laxmikant P Metri]]
* [[User:Audrissie | Audriana Simms]]
* [[User:kookooss | Saeed Bahmanabadi]]
* [[User:gawbul | Steve Moss]]
* [[User:gnovi | Praveen Patil]]
* [[User:loveshack | Dave Love]]
* [[User:spoonhard | Beau Salwin]]
* [[User:kobrien | Ken O'Brien]]
* [[User:anazli | Andreas Nazlidis]]
* [[User:davidcl | Clément David]]
* [[User:rqds12 | Seth Kroeker]]
* [[User:jamesturner246 | James Paul Turner]]
* [[User:tanmoyf2 | Tanmoy Sarkar]]
* [[User:Ankursinha | Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"]]
* [[User:Lbazan | Luis Bazan]]
* [[User:iucar | Iñaki Ucar]]
* [[User:Ingli | Ingmar Lippert]]
* [[User:aekoroglu | Ali Erdinc Koroglu]]
* [[User:fuller | Mark E Fuller]]
* [[User:alexpl|Alexander Ploumistos]]
* [[User:jreuter|Jan André Reuter]]
* [[User:blackwell|Jason Blackwell]]


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


* [[UsingMultipleMPIs]]  - How to use lam and openmpi on the same system.
== Ideas and proposals ==


== Ideas/Proposals ==
* [[SIGs/SciTech/COPR|SciTech COPR]]
* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE| SAGE packaging discussion]]  
* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE|SAGE packaging discussion]]
* MPI work:
* [[Features/Ns3|ns-3 network simulator package]]
* Use environment-modules to improve the "MPI alternatives" situation -- please see the proposal at the bottom of [[EdHill]]
* Create Fedora Science spin: Community member, Amit Saha has kickstarted this effort. See [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amitksaha his page] for updates.
* Make a Fedora-science spin.
* It might be interesting to borrow ideas from [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience Debian Science]


== Packages ==
== Packages ==
=== Available Packages ===
 
* [[SIGs/SciTech/PackageList| List of scientific/engineering packages]]  
* [[SIGs/SciTech/PackageList|Package list]]  


=== Packages awaiting review ===
=== Packages awaiting review ===
* [http://root.cern.ch/ ROOT] - High energy physics data analysis package [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744 #451744]
* [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]
* [http://www.open64.net open64] - The Open64 compiler collection [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470830 #470830]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pypar pypar] - Parallel programming with Python [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487521 #487521]
* [http://gri.sourceforge.net/ Gri] - GRI scientific plotting language [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484386 #484386]
* [http://stxxl.sourceforge.net/  STXXL] - STXXL extra large C++ Standard Template Library implementation [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474787 #474787 ]
* [http://www.scilab.org/ scilab ] - Scilab numerical computing and data processing environment [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472639 #472639]
* [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]
* [http://home.gna.org/elfelli/ elfelli] - Visualisation tool for flux lines - [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496742 #496742]


=== Potential Packages ===
Add '''FE-SCITECH''' to the Blocks field of any Science/Technology related review in Bugzilla. (Remember to remove it once the review is passed.)
* [[Asana Math font]]
* [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.
* [http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/repository.html#list Ideas of packages for bioinformatics base on bio-linux].
* [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]
* [http://www.sagemath.org SAGE]  Mathematica-like open source mathematics software ([[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE|  SAGE packaging discussion]] )
* [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
* [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.
* [http://www.ballview.org/ BALL and BALLView] - A molecular modeling and visualization application and framework.
* [http://www.scilab.org Scilab] - open source platform for numerical computation.


=== Bioinformatics WishList ===
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505154 The tracker is in Bugzilla].
* [[SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList|  Bioinformatics WishList]]  


=== List of applications we will NOT package ===
== Communication ==
* 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:
 
<pre>
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>


{| border="1"
* Mailing list:{{fplist|scitech}}
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* {{fpchat|#fedora-science}} on the freenode IRC network
| '''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
|}


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[[Category:Packaging SIGs]]
[[Category:Packaging SIGs]]
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Latest revision as of 22:00, 21 May 2024

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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