Hi shirish, On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:08:05PM +0000, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I have been a user of Debian for about a decade or so and am looking > an introductory article on the debian-pure blends concept for > itsfoss.com [1] . It can be seen that I have been writing about > Debian-related topics for sometime. For research I looked into [2] > and [3] as well as [4] to have some more understanding of where things > stand, seeing last 6-8 months of discussions on the lists. > > I did remove some obsolete documentation from the wiki trivial IMHO > [5] [6] .
Thanks a lot for these fixes. Should I say I'm happy you did not found even more outdated information? ;-) I admit the documentation about Blends is nothing I'm really proud about ... > I am somewhat stumped by [7] which links to DebianPAN [8] > but is not listed in blends-tasks [9], more precisely in - > > $ cat /usr/share/tasksel/descs/debian-blends-tasks.desc > > The debian-blends-tasks.desc has no info. about what the Debian-PAN > blend is all about. Either a bug or an oversight ? As far as I remember it is intended by the driver (Frédéric in CC) since he not felt it to be ready. At least no metapackages were released so far. > @ Frankling Weng - could you share the github repo. of the ezgo repo. > at github and what is the state of the rewrite of the phet simulations > as shared in [10] - more precisely - > > " https://phet.colorado.edu/ > Simulations for math/science/biology/... etc. Simulations were > created by Java applets and flash before, and now they are rewriting > them in HTML5. > We have offline versions of their simulations in our ezgo system, so > that kids without network can play too. > > However the whole offline packages are more than 700MB and after > gzip'ed it was more than 500 MB too. " Franklin's last message about this was here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2019/01/msg00002.html Jonas' and my answer to this (addressing the code copy issue) are not answered yet. > Look forward to getting more info. I'd recommend watching videos of my talks at DebConf. Specifically I'd like to recommen https://gensho.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/high/987_How_to_attract_new_developers_for_your_team.ogv which has not Blends inside the title which might have been the reason that it went into the main audience room and attracted a larger audience than those talks with Blends inside the title (specifically the discussion starting at about 30min is interesting - key statements after 38min). My personal interpretation of this effect is that lots of people in Debian miss the point that Blends can have a lot of advertising power. At my talks page https://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/ you can find slides and videos of several Blends related talks. One slide I'm continuously updating over years is this one: https://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/20180210_debian-med-sprint/sprints+mentoring.pdf#page=18 Honestly speaking I consider my pet project Debian Med in principle not a very important topic for Debian since medicine and life sciences are rather a niche usage of Debian. This makes it even more impressive that despite this a niche project running "the right way" (tm) = following the Blends way, has attracted one developer per year which makes about 2% of all Debian developers. How many gifted developers would we able to attract if we would create more Blends? Thanks a lot for your interest and your intention to write an article about Blends Andreas. PS: Sorry for using inline links to not mess up to much with your longish link list. > 1. https://itsfoss.com/author/shirish/ > 2. https://www.debian.org/blends/ > 3. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends > 4. https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/ > 5. https://wiki.debian.org/Kudzu?action=info > 6. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends?action=info > 7. https://wiki.debian.org/Blends/TasksPages > 8. https://blends.debian.org/pan/tasks/ > 9. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/blends > 10. https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2019/01/msg00001.html > 11. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/html -- http://fam-tille.de
