Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

[Andrew Malcolmson <andzy@imap-mail.com>]

Nayyar Ahmed wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> It want to have knowledge about some Open Source
> Community that is involued in developing applications and
> tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc.

The Python programming language is widely used in science and engineering:

http://www.thinkware.se/cgi-bin/thinki.cgi/PythonInScience

To help scientists ensure that their work is available to their 
community in the same way that open source makes software available to 
programmers, The Creative Commons is about to launch a new project to 
allow scientific works to be released under open source type licenses:

http://science.creativecommons.org/