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This time we bring you an interview with Dr. Grant Paton-Simpson the developer of SOFA (Statistics Open For All) a statistics and reporting application. Grant has a PhD in Sociology and has provided database and analysis services to the gambling treatment sector continuously since 1997. Have a good read!

What a great interview we have for you this week! John W. Eaton, THE developer of GNU Octave, and Jordi Gutiérrez, one of their main developers and organizer of the OctConf 2012 at Montréal Canada (slides and report), took time from their busy schedules to share with our readers the story behind the venerable GNU Octave and details of this still very active project. Have a great read!

Today we share with you an interview with Jan Erik Solem, author of the book “Programming Computer Vision with Python“. Jan also works at Apple doing computer vision. How cool is that! Enjoy!

Each book contains unique interviews with developers, book authors, startups, bloggers and notable people from the free/libre and open source scientific software community. In these interviews leaders of the FLOSS scientific software community share their thoughts, their stories and their most useful resources.

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the month of June 2012. You can check the lists for other months at the end of the post. This month a lot of R related books were published, including a “for Dummies” book (no joke). You will find also books for the Arduino enthusiast and books about data visualization and computer vision.

OpenSesame is a graphical builder for psychological experiments. In this interview, Sebastiaan Mathôt, lead developer of OpenSesame, talks about the project, his motivations and the importance of openness in Science.

Scilab is one of the most popular FLOSS projects in the scientific computing area, in part due to its longevity, continuous development and community support. In this interview, Sylvestre Ledru, Scilab developer and operation manager for Scilab Enterprises, shares with us Scilab’s history and future. Enjoy!

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the month of May 2012.

Today we have for you an interview with the developers of the Sage mathematics system project. Note that the answers were given as a team. Sage is an open source project that provides an environment very similar to Matlab, Maple and other proprietary well known mathematics systems. It is widely used in academia and scientific research. Version 5.0 was released in mid-May 2012. Enjoy the interview!

Today we share with you an interview with Dr. Leon Brin, professor, mathematician and maintainer of Mathbuntu a set of scripts that enhances an Ubuntu based distribution with mathematical software. Leon tells us the story behind Mathbuntu and how you can help the project. Enjoy!

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the months of March and April 2012.

This time we have for you ant interview with Heino Prinz, a biochemist and author of the book Numerical Methods for the Life Scientist: Binding and Enzyme Kinetics Calculated with GNU Octave and MATLAB. Heino tells us about himself, how the book came to be and who will benefit from it. Enjoy the interview and check out the book!

This is an interview with Mark Galassi, one of the core developers of the highly revered GSL (GNU Scientific Library) project. Mark took out time of his very busy schedule to answer our questions and we are very grateful for that. Enjoy!

Today’s interview is with Mark Hall one of the original core developers of the WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) data mining software. Mark currently works at Pentaho Corporation as technical lead for the WEKA project, among other duties. We go into WEKA’s history and a lot of resources for the machine learning enthusiast. Do not miss the video tutorial at the end of the interview. Enjoy!

This is an interview with Jeffrey D. Long, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa (USA) and author of the book “Longitudinal Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using R“. Dr. Long answers questions about his book and how he uses R in his work in behavioral sciences.

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the months of January and February 2012.

Today we share with you an interview with gCAD3D lead developer Franz Reiter. gCAD3D is an interactive Computer Aided Design tool that can be used by engineers for prototyping models in three dimensions. Enjoy the interview!

We share with you and interview with scientist, professor and author Hans Petter Langtangen about his well known book "A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python". We delve into the story behind the book, future plans and, as always, the importance of free/libre software in science.

Our latest interview is with Amit Saha, responsible for Fedora Scientific, a Fedora based distribution geared towards scientists, students and professionals alike. The distribution is packed with software like GNU Octave, R, Maxima and many more. Give Fedora Scientific a spin! Enjoy the interview!

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