F23 Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin

[Christian Dersch]

I already thought about a "Scientific & Astronomy", but I don't know a
nice way to promote it. Astronomy is also just science… But if we only
call it "Scientific", we loose the amateurs. I'm an astronomer and
physics student (=> I promote Scientific Spin quite often at courses)
and know the communities in astronomy and astrophysics quite well. Many
people are looking for a special Linux for astronomy, so I think we need
something with "Astronomy" in its name. And you really need something
which is ready to use. When you say "You just have to install this and
this" you start losing people again. This is my experience and I started
with a Fedora Astronomy Remix about two years ago, many people in local
community use Fedora now. Because of this success I want to make it
available as an official contribution and tribute to Fedora.

So IMHO it's not only a question of package collection, but also a
question of marketing.

On 06/26/2015 11:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Christian Dersch <lupinix at mailbox.org> wrote:
>> Additional info: Of course an "Astronomy Tools" group is a nice idea too!
>> But it doesn't replace the Spin as the "download, boot and try it" idea
>> doesn't work without a spin.
> A possible work around:
> It's possible to install the group with live media without installing
> it. To make it persistent, the promotion can include a tip on creating
> a persistent overlay at the time the media is created. Then people can
> try and retry as well as share it.
>
> What about a Scientific & Astronomy spin? Looks like Scientific uses
> KDE though, *shrug*.
>
>