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This week we interviewed Mikhail Fursov, software engineer at Unipro, a software services company with an open source bioinformatics product: UGENE. We will learn about their business model, what role open source plays in it, and how they are integrating cloud computing into their services. Let’s get into it!

The "FreeMat 4 Primer" is a PDF with 218 pages that offers a great introduction to FreeMat at the beginner level. The document’s authors are Gary Schafer and Timothy Cyders. It is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

This week we interviewed Lucian Langa, the lead developer of gnoduino, a development environment for Arduino projects under Gnome. Arduino is a very popular open source electronic prototyping platform based on a simple micro-controller board and a development environment written in Java. Enjoy the interview!

This week we interviewed three members of the SciRuby team (a collection of tools for scientific computation written in the Ruby language): John Woods, John Prince and Claudio Bustos.

If you are new to GNU Octave this post will give you some good resources to get you started.

This is the first of a series of interviews with notable people involved with the free software community in the scientific and engineering fields. Future interviews will include project leaders, bloggers, teachers and CEOs.