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A total of 30 unique interviews

Each book contains 15 interviews with developers, book authors, startups, bloggers and notable people from the free/libre and open source scientific software community. These insightful interviews are one of a kind, where leaders of the FLOSS scientific software community share their thoughts, their stories and their most useful resources.


Volume 1

  • Gaël Varoquaux
  • SciRuby Team
  • Lucian Langa, gnoduino lead developer
  • UniPro: Open Source Bioinformatics Business with UGENE
  • Izzat Sabbagh, leader of the Capaware 3D virtual world framework project
  • PiCloud: Scientific open source computing in the cloud
  • Andy Spencer, developer of Aweather a meteorological data viewer
  • Alan W. Irwin, developer of Time Ephemerides
  • Making robots with open source: An interview with Steve Cousins, CEO Willow Garage
  • Jesper Schmidt Hansen, author of GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide
  • Eagle Genomics, open source solution provider for genome content management
  • Equalis, a Scilab based business
  • Matrix Algebra on GPU: An interview with MAGMA lead developers
  • FLOSS for Neuroscience: An interview with the NeuroDebian team
  • Euler Math Toolbox: An interview with René Grothmann

Volume 2

  • Doing geospatial business with FLOSS: An Interview with CartoDB
  • Computational astrophysics with the yt project
  • Geospatial services with FLOSS: Interview with Oslandia
  • High-quality scientific graphics with MathGL: An interview with Alexey Balakin
  • Ivan Idris author of NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide
  • Analysis of Questionnaire Data with R, an interview with author Bruno Falissard
  • Fedora Scientific, an interview with Amit Saha
  • A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python, an interview with author Hans Petter Langtangen
  • Computer Aided Design using FLOSS: An Interview with Franz Reiter, lead developer of gCAD3D
  • Jeffrey D. Long, author of Longitudinal Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using R
  • Machine Learning with WEKA: An Interview with Mark Hall
  • The GNU Scientific Library: An interview with Mark Galassi
  • GNU Octave for the Life Scientist: An Interview with biochemist and author Heino Prinz
  • Leon Brin, maintainer of Mathbuntu
  • Interview with the Sage Mathematics Software Project

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