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Marcus D. Hanwell | Marcus leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open source tools for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware in late 2009. He is now a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, a member of the Blue Obelisk, blogs, @mhanwell on Twitter and is active on Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us.
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Great article, and some food for thought. I work on (and lead) some government funded projects developing open source code that has benefits in many other areas. It has been great, but we still routinely hit road blocks around whether open source has a sustainable business model, what benefits open source has for government, etc. We all need to do more to promote sustainable models around open source, and foster ecosystems that grow around open models that still offer professional, enterprise level support.
Very pleased to be one of those new moderators, and very much looking forward to meeting you in person at All Things Open (and speaking there about my passion). This is a great community, and I am very honored to be a part of it. You and your team put a tremendous amount of work into it, and even as an occasional contributor in the beginning I was really impressed with the editors and how much they helped me get articles in shape.