Nice to meet you, I might also do neuroscience research two years later after graduating from my undergraduate.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < dominik@greysector.net> wrote:

Hello, Ankur and welcome to the SciTech SIG.

Regards, Dominik

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 12:54:28 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

Hello, Ankur and welcome to the SciTech SIG.

Thank you for approving my membership to the SIG too.

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 13:31:59 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:

Hello Ankur,

Hi Amit!

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:25 PM Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur@gmail.com wrote: Hello,

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Welcome to the group! I hope you are familiar with Fedora Scientific [1] - it is an effort to promote fedora as a open science platform.

Yes! I keep asking my lab mates to install it. Thanks so much for working on this!

We will also be having Vagrant boxes [2] with the Fedora 28 release. Since I personally am not involved in scientific research any more, my efforts on fedora scientific is more or less in a "maintenance" mode - hence, if you have ideas, we should look to collaborate to help take it to the next level!

Yes, of course! I intend to remain in research (going to go looking for post-docs soon) so I'll be around to keep things going. I'm trying to focus my Fedora contributions towards Science now so that my $dayjob and Fedora work are somewhat in sync :)

My priority currently is to have a Fedora Workstation based NeuroFedora ISO to provide neuroscientists with a ready to use system. My experience at the lab, even while only anecdotal, suggests the following:

- neuroscience is very interdisciplinary - people with a computing background are a *minority* (I'm only 1 of ~10 people in the lab that has a computing background---the others are physicists/biologists/mathematicians/psychologists/chemists). - researchers, especially senior researchers that have very limited time want a system that "just works". They do not have time to build/debug software, and often this results in them moving to Mac/Windows where binaries are available. - some form of technical support is required (also results in people moving to proprietary tools that may have a support channel) - documentation is a must, even if it is just a list of links---people from non-computing backgrounds do not tend to read source code to learn tools/libraries.

I expect I'll use the Fedora Scientific image as a base image and build on that. ;)

Off the top of my head, I have one or two ideas:

- Does it make sense to bring the various specific SIGs under the Science SIG? NeuroFedora[1] would fall under Scientific, and so would the ML sig[2] and others. Specifically: * it would make the Science SIG the general purpose base that various specific sciences can build on * given the massive overlap in packages, we'd all be able to help each other out with maintaining common packages. The neurosig, for example, shares package maintaining responsibilities[3] and the robotics and astro SIGs seem to do that too[4,5]. Could we perhaps make the "base" packages owned by the Science SIG as the "core" set in a way similar to how Fedora modularity works?

If the above seems like a good idea, I can reach out to the various SIGs and see what they think about it. More could be done then:

* What do folks think of using "Science" as a tag on Ask Fedora for users to ask questions at? I could add subtags for the various sciences? (Ask Fedora is now hosted by upstream for us, so it works quite nicely).

- I'm really glad the science SIG has documentation. Are there any plans to migrate it over to the new docs.fedoraproject.org website[6]? I'm hoping I can get the docs team to do a classroom session on writing docs[7]. We could then have a similar structure there: common information under "Science SIG" and each speciality could have its own documentation too.

I also have the GitHub Fedora Scientific organization [3] where I maintain some related projects and couple of other contributors also have imported their projects to (as far as I can recall) to help their own packaging efforts.

Ah, may I please join it? My github username is: sanjayankur31[8]. Please feel free to ping me on issues I may be able to help with.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/NeuroFedora [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/ML [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/group/neuro-sig [4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/group/robotics-sig [5] https://src.fedoraproject.org/group/astro-sig [6] https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/en_GB/docs/ [7] https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/issue/22 [8] https://github.com/sanjayankur31