Re: Self Introduction: Thomas Vandal
by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 01:20:39PM -0400, Thomas Vandal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a first year PhD student in astronomy at the Université de
> Montréal, in Canada. I use Fedora as my main OS for the past year (I
> have been using Linux since 2018) and I am new to contributing to
> Fedora. I have contributed to a few open-source projects in the past
> (mainly Python software used for astronomy) and I would like to get
> more involved.
>
> I am interested in packaging software I use that is not yet
> available in Fedora. This includes astronomy-related Python packages
> (I just sent a similar email to the python-devel mailing list) and
> applications (CLI or GUI), but also more generic tools like some
> language servers, which I use a lot in Neovim.
>
> For now, I am still learning about packaging for Fedora, hopefully I
> will be able to submit a first package soon.
Hi Thomas,
welcome to Fedora. The Python ecosystem is strong in Fedora, as huge
progress is being made with scientific software stack, so adding
more astronomy-related stuff fits right in.
Zbyszek
