[developers] Fwd: Linguist PPA for Ubuntu and special Live-System 14.04

[Emily M. Bender]

Dear all,

This looks like an interesting chance to raise the profile of DELPH-IN
tools, at least among linguists.  Is anyone interested in working with
Damir, or at least pointing him in the right direction?

Emily


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Damir Cavar <damir.cavar at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:36 AM
Subject: Linguist PPA for Ubuntu and special Live-System 14.04
To: "Emily M. Bender" <ebender at uw.edu>


Hi Emily,

we are setting up a special Ubuntu PPA, currently empty:

https://launchpad.net/~linguist/+archive/linguist

and we are creating a special "for linguists" Ubuntu live-system for
USB-Thumb-drives (maybe using USB-3 ones so that it would be usable). We
might launch this next week or in two weeks to add it as a new activity
to the fund-drive.

We are collecting ideas for packages that are not commonly part of
Ubuntu (we will have a list of packages for CL and linguistics that are
in Ubuntu on our

http://new.linguistlist.org/software/

page (working on this, an user-extensible catalog of linguistically
relevant software, replacing our old Linguist software info service). If
you or some of your students have ideas, contributions, we can share the
hidden Bitbucket repository (Git) where we set up the package code, or
find other ways to exchange tools or just lists of useful tools. We
generate the package code for the PPA from the Git-repository.

Our goal is to have a fully functional Ubuntu (most recent version) with
all the common packages available for installation, and some packages
preinstalled, running from an USB-drive on Macs (Intel) and PCs. We are
also considering to come up with special versions for Intel-based
tablets (some of the Asus tablets, or the Microsoft Surface etc.).

Brent Woo was showing me the Ubuntu that you use for grammar
engineering. Maybe we can bring this together and build finally a
specialized version with the common tools that we use for teaching and
research? I contacted Cannonical and asked for the permission to extend
the boot-logo and other symbols with "for Linguists" and so on.

Thanks!

CU
DC




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Damir Cavar
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Emily M. Bender
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
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