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Today’s interview is with Ivan Idris, author of NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide a book for developers or scientists with a little Python experience and wanting to test NumPy’s capabilities. We talk about the book, how it came to be and the experience writing it. Enjoy!

Locate Press published an updated edition of "Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools" written by the creator of Quantum GIS.

This week we have for you an interview with Alexey Balakin the lead developer of MathGL a library to render high-quality scientific graphics and manage big data arrays. Do not miss the video!

In this interview Olivier Courtin and Vincent Picavet, founders of geospatial service provider Oslandia, share with us their business story, some advice and how free and open source geospatial software plays a major role in their company. Enjoy the interview!

This time we have for you an interview with Britton Smith and Matthew Turk, lead developers of the yt Project, a toolkit that offers a common language for developing astrophysical simulations and analysis tools. Astronomy professionals and amateurs will find this interview fascinating. Enjoy!

A list of FLOSS for science related books that were published during the month of November 2011.

This week we have for you an interview with Simon Tokumine and Javier de la Torre from CartoDB, an open source geospatial cloud database with a business model. Enjoy the interview!

Today we share with you an interview with René Grothmann, the developer of the Euler Math Toolbox, a software environment for interactive numerical computations. Euler is similar to FreeMat or MatLab, but it has its own take on how to do things. One interesting feature is that it creates 3D stereograms that require 3D glasses. I found this project way back in the 90?s and I am happy to see it is still going strong.

This time we bring you an interview with Michael Hanke and Yaroslav O. Halchenko, leaders of the NeuroDebian project. NeuroDebian is a turnkey platform (using Debian as its foundation) that offers a huge bundle of FLOSS software for neuroscientists. Enjoy the interview!

A list of FLOSS for science related books released during the month of October 2011.

In this Floss4Science interview we bring you the leaders of the MAGMA (Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures) project: Jack Dongarra and Stanimire (Stan) Tomov. MAGMA is a set of linear algebra libraries with a strong relationship to the venerable LAPACK and ScaLAPACK libraries.

This week we have for you another interview with a company whose business model is built on top of open source software: Equalis. The open source software in question is Scilab and Dr.Neil Mitchell, COO and Co-founder of Equalis, will be answering our questions.

This week we have an interview with Richard Holland, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of Eagle Genomics, a bioinformatics company that leverages scientific open source software to support its business model. Enjoy the interview!

This week’s FLOSS4Science interview is with Jesper Schmidt Hansen, nanofluidics scientist and author of the GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide, one of the few books on GNU Octave besides the official GNU Octave manuals. Enjoy the interview!

This week’s FLOSS4Science interview is with Steve Cousins, President and CEO of Willow Garage, creators of the PR2 robot and the TurtleBot, both based on the open source ROS (Robot Operating System) platform. Roboticists, enjoy the interview!

This week we interviewed Alan Irwin, the current developer of the Time Ephemerides project, a software and data bundle used to make time corrections in astronomical observations from the Earth’s view point. This is hardcore Astronomy friends! Enjoy the interview!

This week’s interview is with Andy Spencer, developer of Aweather, a free software for visualizing meteorological radar data. AWeather has been on my radar (smart pun?) for a few years since I live in the Caribbean and weather is always a concern from June through November. I think readers will find this project interesting and I hope you will lend a hand to keep it rolling. Enjoy the interview!

The following FLOSS for science related books were released during the month of August 2011.

This week we interviewed Ken Elkabany, CEO of another company with a business model on top of scientific open source software: PiCloud. PiCloud allows running any Python code on an auto-scaling, high-performance cluster in a server-less cloud. That includes SciPy code. We hope this kind of interview inspires scientist and developers to turn into FLOSS entrepreneurs.

This week we interviewed Izzat Sabbagh Rodríguez, leader of the Capaware project, a multipurpose 3D virtual world development framework, sponsored and used by the government of the Canary Islands (Spain) and local companies. Enjoy the interview!