Hello Joachim, you're welcome! Nice to see other astrophysicists from Germany here :) I'm working on classification problems (mostly variable stars) using modern machine learning algorithms.
Do you already know our Special Interest Groups: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG Greetings, Christian On 12/11/2015 08:20 PM, Joachim Frieben wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am a physicist from Germany. I began using GNU/Linux as my main OS back in > 1998 starting with Red Hat Linux 5.0 and going through every single iteration > of Red Hat Linux and Fedora ever since. Throughout these years I have > contributed to Fedora mainly through postings to various Red Hat mailing > lists and by reporting numerous bugs to the Red Hat Bugzilla. > > In the context of my research in the fields of theoretical relativistic > astrophysics and numerical relativity I have been using Fedora for > numerical simulations, data analysis, and visualization but also for writing > scientific publications or presentations. > > A very popular plotting package used by the astrophysics community is PGPLOT > [1] which, however, is not open source and therefore only available through > the RPMFUSION project [2]. An open source and modern alternative which aims > at becoming a full replacement of the former is and suitable for adoption by > Fedora is the GIZA library [3]. I have started contributing to the upstream > project earlier this year and recently converted the source package from > using a proprietary make system to using GNU Autotools. I have now packaged a > tentative Fedora package of the latest release giza-0.9.4 and submitted it > for package review. The corresponding review request can be found at: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187030 > > I further hope that adoption by the Fedora Project would help to increase > GIZA's user base and thus speed up the development process through bug > reports, user requests, and direct contributions to the code base. > > Cheers > > Joachim Frieben > > > [1] www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/ > [2] http://www.rpmfusion.org > [3] http://giza.sf.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
