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"It's not that the OSS world is a utopia of perfect harmony, far from it. \"Flame wars\" on public mailing lists are famous, projects split in sometimes acrimonious ways, nasty things get said in public and in private, etc. Humanity is still humanity. But I have seen first hand the difference between a baseline of productive engagement and the constant mistrust of acrid competitiveness that is academia. And I know I'm not the only one: I have heard *many* friends over the years tell me how much more they enjoy scientific open source conferences like [SciPy](http://conference.scipy.org/index.html) than their respective, discipline-specific ones.\n",
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"So at Berkeley, I hope to continue building great open source tools for scientific computing (IPython and much more), but also to bring these questions and ideas into the heart of the debate about what it means to be an academic scientist. Ask me in five years how it went :)"
"We want to build a space to bring the strengths of the university *together* with the best ideas of the OSS world. Despite my somewhat stern words above, I am a staunch believer in the fundamental value to society of our universities, and I am *not* talking about damaging them, only about helping them adapt to a rapidly changing landscape. The OSS world is distributed, collaborative, mostly online and often volunteer; it has great strengths but it also often produces very uneven outcomes. In contrast, universities have a lasting presence, physical space where intense human, face-to-face collaboration can take place, and deep expertise in many domains. I hope we can leverage those strengths of the university together with the practices of the OSS culture, to create a better future of computational science.\n",
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"For the next few years, I hope to continue building great open source tools for scientific computing (IPython and much more), but also to bring these questions and ideas into the heart of the debate about what it means to be an academic scientist. Ask me in five years how it went :)"
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"**Note:** as always, this post was written as an IPython Notebook, which can be obtained from my [github repository](https://github.com/fperez/blog)."
"**Note:** as always, this post was written as an IPython Notebook, which can be obtained from my [github repository](https://github.com/fperez/blog). If you are reading the notebook version, the blog post is [available here](http://blog.fperez.org/2013/11/an-ambitious-experiment-in-data-science.html)."
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