Portal:FLOSS4Science/Page3

General

• Why FLOSS in Science?
• Why FLOSS in Education?
• How to Edit this Portal
• General FLOSS Learning Resources

for Researchers

• Free Software in Biology using Debian-Med: A Resource for Information Agents and Computational Grids
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Research

• Research Agenda

for Learners

• Software Carpentry
• FLOSS Manuals

for Educators

• Open Educational Resources mini-handbook for Educators

for Programmers

A few featured resources for programmers here ...

• Math & Physics Resources
• Colt Libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing in Java.
• pyephem - package for high precision astronomy (Python) - 'ephemeris' calculations.
• NumericAndScientific - list of Python resources.

Readings

Insights

• "Science is ultimately an Open Source enterprise." - Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, First Edition, 1999.
• "Computers are as important to science as test tubes, but we know surprisingly little about how scientists develop and use software" - Software Carpentry