[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Request to Join Project Scientific Computing Debian Packages

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Johannes,

Welcome to pkg-scicomp, you have been added to pkg-scicomp project. I look
forward seeing Fenics in Debian.

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and
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, <noreply at alioth.debian.org> wrote:

> Johannes Ring has requested to join your project.
> You can approve this request here:
> http://alioth.debian.org/project/admin/?group_id=30921.
>
> Comments by the user:
> Hello,
>
> my name is Johannes Ring and I work as a Scientific Programmer at Simula
> Research Laboratory (http://www.simula.no) in Norway. Here at Simula we
> are focusing on development of software (mostly open source) for
> scientific computing and most of our researchers/developers are using
> Debian or Ubuntu as their development platform. We want our software to be
> as easy to install as possible for people running Debian/Ubuntu and we have
> therefore set up a couple of repositories, which I am currently the
> maintainer of. However, it would be even easier for the user if the packages
> were included in Debian/Ubuntu in the first place (no need to add sources).
> In that respect, I have been asked by my project leader Ola Skavhaug and
> Anders Logg, which is one of the main developers of the
> FEniCS software suite (www.fenics.org), to try to become an official
> Debian maintainer so that I can help in getting our packages into
> Debian/Ubuntu. Since I am a Debian/Ubuntu guy (started with Debian in 2000
> but switched to Ubuntu Breezy in 2005 when I couldn\'t get my new Thinkpad
> to work in Debian) I would very much like to contribute in the development
> of Debian by maintaining and adding new packages. I have been aware of the
> pkg-scicomp group for some time now and used several of the packages that
> are available there (like scotch, slepc, and trilinos), so I am sure that
> this is the right group for me to join. Hopefully, that is okay with you.
>
> If you want to have a look at my two repositories, they can be found at
>
> 1. http://www.fenics.org/ubuntu
> 2. http://packages.simula.no
>
> The first one is for FEniCS, which is a free software suite for automated
> solution of differential equations, and the second one is for other Simula
> software and some external packages. The packages is far from perfect, but
> nothing that can\'t be fixed.
>
> Hope to join you soon :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Johannes
>
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