Johannes,<br><br>Welcome to pkg-scicomp, you have been added to pkg-scicomp project. I look forward seeing Fenics in Debian.<br><br><a href="mailto:pkg-scicomp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">pkg-scicomp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org</a> is the mailing list for discussions<br>
<a href="mailto:pkg-scicomp-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org">pkg-scicomp-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org</a> is the mailing list for subversion activity<br><br>you can find other pkg-scicomp information on <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-scicomp">http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-scicomp</a><br>
and<br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam">http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, <<a href="mailto:noreply@alioth.debian.org">noreply@alioth.debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Johannes Ring has requested to join your project.<br>
You can approve this request here: <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/project/admin/?group_id=30921" target="_blank">http://alioth.debian.org/project/admin/?group_id=30921</a>.<br>
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Comments by the user:<br>
Hello,<br>
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my name is Johannes Ring and I work as a Scientific Programmer at Simula Research Laboratory (<a href="http://www.simula.no" target="_blank">http://www.simula.no</a>) in Norway. Here at Simula we are focusing on development of software (mostly open source) for<br>
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<br>
FEniCS software suite (<a href="http://www.fenics.org" target="_blank">www.fenics.org</a>), 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.<br>
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If you want to have a look at my two repositories, they can be found at<br>
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1. <a href="http://www.fenics.org/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://www.fenics.org/ubuntu</a><br>
2. <a href="http://packages.simula.no" target="_blank">http://packages.simula.no</a><br>
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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.<br>
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Hope to join you soon :-)<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Johannes<br>
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