mind-co September 2018

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Fedora and Science
by Ankur Sinha 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Hello, I'd initially posted this to the CommOps list and was directed here to Mindshare. I've recently resurrected the NeuroFedora SIG (it's my area of research so I'm quite happy to maintain it), but while I was looking around I saw that we already have a few science related SIGs in Fedora---I was aware of maybe one or two, but not all of them, in spite of one or two being featured on labs.fp.o! - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/bigdata - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/ML - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/NeuroFedora - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech Now, mostly, these are groups of people who come together and package up software that is relevant to the particular field, and the SIGs work independently of each other. However when one looks at them, one realises that lots of work that each SIG does overlaps with other SIGs. I think it's quite within our community goals to further Open Science. So, I was wondering if we could organise the SIGs better under a common umbrella: "Fedora <3 science" or something of the sort. It'll give all SIGs a common theme. It'll enable us to market science in Fedora better (or so I think), and it'll enable other community members interested in other sciences to start their own SIGs in the future. Of course, it'll enable better science, and we may even get more scientists involved in FOSS, and giving back to it. Open Science shares most of the values of FOSS---everyone, whether or not a scientist should be able to obtain and analyse data using tools that should be free of restrictions; everyone should be able to read scientific results (this is part of the Open Access movement); everyone should be able to access, study, learn, and contribute to the scientific process. It is necessary for science informed policy making---especially with things like fake news doing the rounds nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access http://opensourceforneuroscience.org/ What do folks think? I'm happy to help with this, of course---I'd really like to make Fedora a "go-to" distribution for whatever sciences the community can support, not just Neuroscience. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London

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Easyfix + WhatCanIDoForFedora
by Brian Exelbierd 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

I started writing this a while ago and never got it fully formed. Rather than let it keep rotting in my drafts folder I wanted to share it and see if it made sense to anyone else. Warning - rough edges ahead! --- Conversations with several people have resulted in distilling the following idea: = EasyFix == Changing metadata Modify the table that drives fedoraproject.org/easyfix that is located at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Easyfix The table would now include two additional columns (optional) Col 1 = existing reference to the issue tracker. We should consider adding gitlab.com support Col 2 = existing point of contact Col 3 = category of task (documentation, infrastructure, programming-Haskell, programming-Ruby, etc.) Col 4 = SIG/WG/etc. this project is related too (Design, Council, KDE, etc.) == Changing fedoraproject.org/easyfix Today we show only two categories: Issues from Pagure/Github and Bugzillas I believe those categories are not the right categories for consumers of the page. Using the new category (col 3) above, we would break things out by the kind of contribution. This would serve to let people browse related tasks more easily and to reduce the overwhelming nature of the current lists. For BZs we are either going to have to guess based on BZ metadata or leave them lumped together. = WCIDFF WCDIFF should be extended to show the categories and groups appropriate for the various endpoints. This way the person who navigates WCDIFF has the option of reading a specific task they could work on right now, if they so desire. = Marketing/Promotion The categories give us the opportunity to promote our easyfixes as a great way to join or contribute in a targeted manner. This could come in the form of articles, tweets, or live conference appearances. What do people think? regards, bex

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LISA18
by Nick Bebout 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

I filed mindshare ticket number 40 in Pagure to request funding for LISA18. I’m planning on going and mattdm is also. We haven’t had meetings in a few weeks and I would like to go ahead and make travel plans since the event is in about a month, so I thought we could possibly vote in a ticket. Thanks, nb

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