Re: Resurrection of the NeuroFedora SIG

[Cătălin George Feștilă]

Good to know.
A good article post at Fedora Magazin will be more useful.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 4:24 PM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/NeuroFedora
>
>  I've recently resurrected the NeuroFedora SIG. Many thanks to Igor and
>  the others who'd worked on it in the past and have given us a firm base
>  to build on.
>
>  The goal
>  ---------
>
>  The (current) goal of the NeuroFedora SIG is to make Fedora an easy to
>  use platform for neuroscientists.
>
>  Neuroscience is an extremely multidisciplinary field. It brings together
>  mathematicians, chemists, biologists, physicists, psychologists,
>  engineers (electrical and others) computer scientists and more. A
>  lot of software is used nowadays in Neuroscience:
>
>  - data collection, analysis, and sharing
>  - lots of image processing (a lot of ML is used here, think Data Science)
>  - simulation of brain networks (https://neuron.yale.edu/neuron/,
>    http://nest-simulator.org/)
>  - dissemination of scientific results (peer reviewed and otherwise,
>    think LaTeX)
>
>  https://github.com/asoplata/open-computational-neuroscience-resources/
>  provides a great overview of the computational side of neuroscience. It
>  isn't just about understanding how the brain functions, we also want to
>  understand how it processes information---how it "computes".
>
>  (Some of you will already be aware of the Human Brain Project, a
>  flagship EU project: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/)
>
>  Now, given that a large proportion of neuroscientists are not trained
>  in computer science, a lot of time and effort is spent setting up
>  systems, installing software (often from source). This can be hard for
>  people not well-versed in build systems and so on.
>
>  So, at NeuroFedora, we will try provide a ready to use Fedora based
>  system for neuroscientists to work with, so they can quickly get their
>  environment set up and work on the science.
>
>
>  Please join us!
>  ---------------
>
>  If you are interested in neuroscience, please consider joining the SIG.
>  Packaging software is only *one* way in which one can contribute.
>  Writing docs and answering questions about the software in NeuroFedora
>  are other ways too, for example.
>
>  You can get in touch with us here:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/NeuroFedora#Communication_and_getting...
>
>  What's in it for you?
>  ---------------------
>
>  In general, it will increase your awareness of neuroscience (which is a
>  fascinating field---but of course, I am biased). We also hope to use the
>  Fedora classroom sessions to host beginner level classes on using the
>  software we package. If you'd like to get into neuroscience research
>  work, it's an excellent opportunity to learn.
>
>  Fedora and Science
>  -------------------
>
>  In general, furthering Open Science is quite in line with our goals of
>  further FOSS---Open science shares the philosophy of FOSS. The data, the
>  tools, the results, should be accessible to all to understand, use,
>  learn from, and develop.
>
>  I've just written to the Mindshare team asking if we can get the various
>  Science related SIGs together and do more. You can find my e-mail here:
>
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
>
>  Please feel free to join the discussion.
>
>  --
>  Thanks,
>  Regards,
>
>  Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>  Time zone: Europe/London
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