Re: Science

Jos Poortvliet wrote:
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> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 14:45:03 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
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> > Hey guys,
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> >
>
> > This is not purely a promo thing, but I would like the benefit of 
> your wisdom,
>
> > experience, incisive intellect and so on... Enough flattery? ;-)
>
> >
>
> > Anyway, a few of us got together at Akademy and discussed how to 
> raise the
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> > profile of KDE science apps. One idea was to have a page under 
> 'Applications'
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> > on kde.org (so this would be at 
> http://www.kde.org/applications/science).
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> >
>
> > It would include the KDE Edu science apps, but also various outside 
> apps -
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> > RKWard, Kile, LabPlot. well we gathered quite a list. The idea is to 
> make it
>
> > easier to see what we have - currently the best match is to look in
>
> > Applications -> Education but that excludes the three above, and 
> contains a
>
> > lot of noise from a science perspective (KHangman...).
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> >
>
> > This is purely a presentation thing - there is no intention to remove
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> > duplicate apps from the Edu page or to create a separate Science 
> module. The
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> > majority of apps listed would probably be non-SC in any case.
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> >
>
> > So: Good? Bad? Don't care?
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> >
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> > If the response is fairly positive then I'll run this past KDE Edu 
> (already
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> > discussed a bit - as a purely presentation thing they seem mostly 
> not too
>
> > bothered either way) and KDE www of course.
>
> When it comes to the homepage, this makes sense. However, it wouldn't 
> be a completely bad idea to see if the edu team can split what it does 
> in two - the science and the edu part or something. I'm not advocating 
> to actually split the team but at least the products and the webpage. 
> Just going a little further than you proposed... Which I also support, 
> btw.
>
> In either case, it might also be valuable to ask the authors of RKWard 
> et all to join kde-edu ;-)
>
When did the science programs and the rest kde-edu programs become 2 
separate identities? If you make separate pages for the science then 
wouldn't it make sense to also make individual pages for math, vocab, etc??
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Stu
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> >
>
> > PS: There's also a new area on the KDE forums and a bit of a push to 
> try and
>
> > get some interviews etc on the Dot. If you're interested please get 
> yourself
>
> > onto the kde-science mailing list:
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> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-science
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> >
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