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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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Hi Egon. Agreed on the "compete and collaborate" ;-) I didn't look at the graphic too deeply (opensource.com add the graphic). I think we have a great community, and on the whole we loosely collaborate very well with some healthy competition as multiple approaches are explored. We publish reusable code that can be reviewed, improved and shared between projects too. I am not sure we are competing for "the best toolkit", or at least that is not how I view the Blue Obelisk community. There is some great work comparing multiple tools and approaches, along with developing open data that can be widely shared, open standards and best practices.
I had been using akregator for years, but with the advent of many connected devices and the social features fell for Google Reader. I am trying out NewsBlur, and liking it (tried Feedly on the closed side, but don't like the interface and am worried about the whims of a single corporate owner too). Interested to hear what others are trying out, akregator would be great on the desktop if it could connect to other services easily and share read/unread status.