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

Wed Mar 19 17:35:33 CET 2014

Hi C.J., and everybody,

thanks for the offer. If you are interested to volunteer and help with
this project, this is great. If you have some ideas how to put a package
with the DELPH-IN tools together and prepare it for either our Launchpad
PPA or an independent PPA with the binaries only on our LINGUIST List
server, this would be great.

Also, if you have a suggestion, what other CL or NLP packages might be
useful for development and education purposes, let us know. We are
collecting a list, prioritizing it and preparing packages accordingly.

We have an empty PPA here right now:

https://launchpad.net/~linguist

and we use our corporate Bitbucket repo for code management, where we
can share project space with you.

The catalog of software packages and more information on "Ubuntu for
Linguists" (as we named this project) will show up on the new LINGUIST
List pages soon: http://new.linguistlist.org/software/

Our goals are to cover:
1. grammar engineering tools
2. common corpus tools
3. language technology for language documentation (Praat, Flex, ELAN,
EXMARALDA etc.)
4. speech recognition tools (that are not yet part of the standard
Ubuntu software catalog)
5. common text and language processing tools

We have some sort of our special Ubuntu distro (via a post-installer to
extend it with the necessary packages and configuration) for local work
at LINGUIST List and in classes. We want to prepare a more generic one
and make packages available to a broader community via a centralized PPA
(or two), hopefully with contribution and support from the global community.

Whoever is interested in contributing to that, let us know, and we can
share resources and information.

Best wishes

Damir

On 03/19/2014 12:17 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
>
> Hi there Damir,
>
> I've got some friends with experience building specialized Ubuntu
> releases, and I've been using and developing on Debian since 1996. 
> Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist.
>
> Cheers,
>
> C.J.
>
> Sent from my PDP-11
>
> On Mar 18, 2014 7:39 AM, "Emily M. Bender" <ebender at uw.edu
> <mailto:ebender at uw.edu>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto:ebender at uw.edu>>
>
>
>     Hi Emily,
>
>     we are setting up a special Ubuntu PPA, currently empty:
>
>     https://launchpad.net/~linguist/+archive/linguist
>     <https://launchpad.net/%7Elinguist/+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
>
>
>     --
>     Please support the LINGUIST List with a donation - Fund Drive 2014:
>     http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/
>
>     Damir Cavar
>     Director of the Institute for Language Information and Technology
>     Moderator of The LINGUIST List
>     Eastern Michigan University
>     http://linguistlist.org/people/damir_cavar.html
>

-- 
Please support the LINGUIST List with a donation - Fund Drive 2014:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/

Damir Cavar
Director of the Institute for Language Information and Technology
Moderator of The LINGUIST List
Eastern Michigan University
http://linguistlist.org/people/damir_cavar.html

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