GNOME ScienceCD

The GNOME ScienceCD is supposed to be a collection of educational and scientific GNOME and GTK+ applications, distributed in Autopackage format. The goal is to make something like The OpenCD or the OpenSourceCD (German) but with Linux science applications.

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TODO

  • Build initial version of the CD.
  • Set up an IRC channel.
  • Build a website, including
    • an database to track university adresses and local GNOME University Outreach advocates (Which universites exists? Is there a maintainer right now? How many universities do we cover?)
    • a database for press contacts, including mail support
    • a bittorrent server to distribute the ISO's and feed mirrors.
    • a news page, probably fed by advocate blog clients
    • a planet page to aggregate developer blogs (?)
    • a ticket system to track user wishes (and to sent them to the appropriate bug database) (?)
    • a wiki maybe to write and translate articles about the project, and the projects applications. (?)
    • an icon set for forum/web page advertising. (?)
    • a database for proprietary science applications to sent out marketing material about GNOME's development environment. (?)
    • a database for local PC dealers to sent out marketing material to them (think: "Special offer: The Ubuntu student start PC!" GNOME's not doing a distribution so Ubuntu will be a better brand for local dealers to use.)
  • Gather more applications (to satisfy open demands) by updating them to proper GNOME applications.

Suggested Applications

Project

Maint. approval

UI Design

Autopackage

SciGraphica

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Ghemical

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GChemPaint

Yes

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GNUTU

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Celestia

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exists

Nightfall

TODO

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Gabedit

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RoadMap

TODO

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gnumexp

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Qalculate!

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Gnofract 4D

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Coriander

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pdnMesh

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Genius

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LucidLife

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done

Oregano

TODO

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QCADesigner

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Gwyddion

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G3Data

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OpenEuclide

TODO

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exists

Dr. Geo

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Dia

TODO

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AbiWord

TODO

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exists

Releated (command line) software

Advocacy Howto material

Comments

I suggest we rather support the Scientific_Linux project unless really somebody is working hard on this. But maybe providing a good GNOME for Scientific Linux is easier?

  • Scientific Linux is just another (complete) distribution, not an add-on CD for the major distributions. This is no alternative for the ScienceCD. --ClausSchwarm


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Attic/GnomeScienceCD (last edited 2013-11-22 21:18:55 by WilliamJonMcCann)