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Welcome to the MOTU Science team. We are responsible for the upkeep of science packages within the Universe repository. Check out the [http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/science/ Science], [http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/math/ Mathematics], and even the [http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/tex/ TeX] sections of the repositories for packages that might fall under this catagory.

Members

• ["JordanMantha"] (LaserJock)

• ["MichaelRimbert"] (tritium or mrimbert)

• ["MingHua"] (minghua)

• ["ChrisPeterman"] (Kyral)

• ["KevinGoldstein"] (parktownprawn)

• ["EricBarron"] (macgyver2)

• ["SethKinast"] (seth)

• ...and you!

  • See [https://launchpad.net/people/motuscience this] Launchpad team page, and join us in #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net.

Goals

• Make sure science packages are synced from Debian.
• Make sure Debian know what packages are in Ubuntu but not in Debian.
• Make sure Ubuntu science packages actually work. Some need to be tested and bug reports need to be filed.

• Let's get a .desktop file for all the relevent science packages. Many don't have .desktop files or icons. I believe that most of the packages should have something like Categories=ConsoleOnly;Math; or Categories=Application;Science; . Please refer to the freedesktop.org standards for [http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ .desktop files] and [http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ menus]. The main wiki page for this is UniversePackageWithoutDesktopFile.

• Package some of the programs found at [http://www.gnomefiles.org/category.php?cat_id=6 gnomefiles.org] for inclusion into Ubuntu and eventually in Debian.

Ubuntu and Debian Packages

Lists of source packages with their Debian and Ubuntu versions with links to bug tracking systems, etc.

• [http://tiber.tauware.de/~laserjock/math_list.html Math]

• [http://tiber.tauware.de/~laserjock/science_list.html Science]

• [http://tiber.tauware.de/~laserjock/tex_list.html TeX]

Packages in Ubuntu but not in Debian

[http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:cafix cafix] - communicates with CASIO graphic calculators BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:koctave koctave] - graphical front-end for Octave BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:mascyma mascyma] - a user-friendly frontend for MAXIMA (not sure what upstream is up to. can't really find any info.) BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:plotdrop plotdrop] - a minimal GNOME frontend to GNUPlot (filed ITP and sponsor uploaded 1/11/06) BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:ruby-gnuplot ruby-gnuplot] - Ruby interface to the gnuplot package (very stale but [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rgplot/ upstream] seems to be fairly active) BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:easychem easychem] - draw high-quality molecules and chemical 2D formulas BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:ewbgui ewbgui] - Editor's Work Bench; set of GUI scripts (http://www.ascii.co.jp/EWB/archives/ewb-3.3-R8.tar.gz and http://www.ascii.co.jp/EWB/archives/ewbpatch-3.3-R9.tar.gz seem to be latest source) BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:ewblib ewblib] - Editor's Work Bench; libraries and fonts BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:mathpazo mathpazo] - for mathematical typesetting with the Palatino fonts (kinda stale, up to 1.3 at [http://ctan.org/info?id=mathpazo CTAN]) BR [http://packages.ubuntu.com/src:texmaker texmaker] - free LaTeX editor BR

For documentation on: BR

• getting a package sponsored in Debian try the [http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html Debian mentors FAQ].

• how to send "Itent to Package" (ITP) or "Request for Package" (RFP) reports look at [http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ WNPP].

Packages we possibly want in Dapper

These are programs that are not yet packaged for Debian/Ubuntu but would be nice to have:

• [http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1123 FlowDesigner] - "FlowDesigner is a free (GPL/LGPL) data flow oriented development environment. It can be used to build complex applications by combining small, reusable building blocks. In some ways, it is similar to both Simulink and LabView, but is hardly a clone of either." (Kyral is looking into this) -- Its in REVU now - (Kyral)

• [http://icculus.org/~jcspray/plotdrop/ PlotDrop] - PlotDrop is designed for quick simple visualisation of 2D data series. It is a minimal GNOME frontend to GNUPlot. -- 1/08/06 - Accepted and is in Dapper Universe, 1/11/06 - Uploaded to Debian unstable (LaserJock)

• [http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=112 GChemPaint] - A 2D chemical structures editor for the Gnome desktop. It should enable embedding some chemistry in files from other programs using Bonobo. Also on UniverseCandidates.

• [http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=676 EasyChem] - Draw press-quality molecules and chemical 2D formulas (organic molecules in particular). Export to many formats (e.g. Postscript, LaTeX and Fig). -- 1/01/2006 - Accepted and is in Dapper Universe (Kyral)

• [http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=471 Gabedit] - a graphical interface to Gaussian, Molcas, Molpro and MPQC computational chemistry packages.

• [http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ Texmaker] - a very nice LaTeX editor similar to Kile. (just added to universe)

• [http://ktechlab.org/ KTechlab] - KTechlab is an IDE for electronic circuits and microcontrollers.

• [http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/ K3DSurf] - K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate Multidimensional surfaces by using Mathematical equations. It's also a "Modeler" for POV-Ray in the area of parametric surfaces.

• [http://frsl06.physik.uni-freiburg.de/privat/stille/kpl/ Kpl] - a program for two- and three-dimensional graphical presentation of data sets and functions.

Links

• [:UbuntuScientists] has a good intro to science related packages.

• [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=29919 UbuntuForum] thread

• [http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianScience DebianScience] wiki

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