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Rexford, NY
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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It is great to be a part of the team, and I appreciate all of the work the Opensource.com team does behind the scenes to make this such a strong and vibrant community. I will be doing what I can to bring the intersection of open science, open data, and open source to this community. Looking forward to a great 2014!
I mostly use Arch now, but miss (and sometimes use) Gentoo not just to compile it for the machine (now less of an advantage than it once was), but to configure in/out features of the packages. I have tried, and used several, and regularly use Ubuntu on my Dell laptop as that came installed and works well. The more conservative binary release distros can be much simpler for certain things, but often end up going with rolling release for the fresh packages (compilers, libraries, etc). I used to run Red Hat and Debian a lot, but found I compiled so much into /usr/local I was maintaining a mini-distro there - hence the move to Gentoo in the first place ;-)