Project:Science

Gentoo Science Project purpose is to create an easy way for scientific community to use Gentoo to their advantage and to also make it easy to contribute back, should such desire emerge. The project strives to maintain a large set of scientific packages as well as wide configuration options that users of Gentoo have come to expect. Additional goals of Scientific Gentoo are to create and maintain relevant documentation as well as to organize activities related to both science and Gentoo.

Subprojects
The Science project is composed of the following subprojects:

Overlays
The Science overlay holds packages. View the overlay with gitweb:


 * http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sci.git

The overlay is synchronized on github, where we strongly encourage pull requests:


 * https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci

There are also a few other overlays of interest to scientific users:
 * the sage-on-gentoo overlay allows users to install the SAGE notebook
 * the octave overlay automatically generates octave-forge packages

Mailing List
We discuss user experiences, and everything related to science and math on Gentoo on the low traffic gentoo-science mailing list. Everyone is welcome to join. Archives are located:


 * http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/