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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]
* #fedora-science on the freenode IRC network
 
== Packagers/Reviewers/People interested ==


* [[ChitleshGoorah]]
* [[ChitleshGoorah]]
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* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[User:codysmith | Cody Smith ]]
* [[User:codysmith|Cody Smith ]]
* [[User:Computience|Noah Lee]]
* [[User:Computience|Noah Lee]]
* [[User:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
* [[User:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
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* [[User:yumas|Yumas Hankouri]]
* [[User:yumas|Yumas Hankouri]]


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


=== Packages awaiting review ===
=== Packages awaiting review ===
Add the FE-SCITECH blocker bug to any Science/Technology related review in Bugzilla.
 
(Remember to remove it once the review is passed.)
Add the FE-SCITECH blocker bug to any Science/Technology related review in Bugzilla. (Remember to remove it once the review is passed.)


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


=== Potential Packages ===
== Communication ==
* [[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/tools/bio-linux/package-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] - Under review [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539387 InsightToolkit]
* [http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/rio/vv VV] - Fast and simple image viewer, designed for visualization of spatio-temporal images: 2D, 2D+t, 3D and 3D+t (or 4D) - There are already binary rpms [http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/rio/vv#Download_VV available]
* [http://lammps.sandia.gov/] LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator
* [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://nanodesigner.sourceforge.net/ Nanodesigner] - Example design 1 The Nanodesigner project is an attempt to create a software platform for research on nanometer sized objects. By objects is meant everything that consists of atoms: molecular motors, biomolecules, a crystal slab
* [http://www.geneinfinity.org/rastop/ RasTop] - Molecular Visualization Software
* [http://www.scilab.org Scilab]  - GUI based numerical analysis system. [[SIGs/SciTech/Scilab]] page has details on current status
* [http://mgltools.scripps.edu/ MGLTools]  - Includes AutoDockTools (docking of molecules), Python Molecular Viewer and Vision (python visual programming). Packaged for debian : http://mgltools.scripps.edu/News/mgltools-available-for-debian
* [http://ambermd.org/#AmberTools AmberTools] - A set of tools for Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement (AMBER). [[User:Rathann|Dominik Mierzejewski]] is working on the package, contact him if you are interested or want to help.


=== Bioinformatics WishList ===
* Mailing list: [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech Fedora Scitech List]  
* [[SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList|  Bioinformatics WishList]]
* #fedora-science on the freenode IRC network
 
=== List of applications we will NOT package ===
* 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"
|-
| '''Name''' || '''Description''' || '''Why it won't be packaged'''
|-
| [http://www-c.inria.fr/gamma/cdrom/www/emc2/eng.htm EMC2] || Mesh generation utility || Non-Free license (verified by fedora-legal)
|-
| [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
|-
| [http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/molden/ MOLDEN] || A package for displaying Molecular Density from Ab Initio and Semi-Empirical packages || Non-Free license
|-
| foo || bar app || patented
|}


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

Revision as of 16:13, 20 June 2011

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 the FE-SCITECH blocker bug to 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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