Oss projects by domain
We'd like to improve our outreach to non-CS majors in the sciences by finding open source projects in their disciplines. We plan to use this information both in our publicity and when we're looking for projects to help students contribute to. To that extent, we're asking both for short testimonials (for publicity) as well as insight on how accessible these projects are to newcomers.
Instructions
Please add information and testimonials wherever you see fit. If a discipline is missing, please add it. You can add the same project to multiple disciplines.
Please format disciplines in the following way:
- Name of Discipline
- Projects
- OSS project that is used within this discipline. Make sure to leave a URL to the project website and if possible a brief description of the software.
- Comments:
- This project is poorly documented.
- This project has a really active, friendly maintainer.
- "This is a testimonial about the project. It's great, I use it all the time in my research! I am totally okay with OpenHatch using my testimonial in outreach emails and similar materials." (Optional attribution - name, position, url of person leaving the testimonial.)
- Comments:
- Another project!
- Comments:
- Comment!
- Testimonial!
- Comments:
- OSS project that is used within this discipline. Make sure to leave a URL to the project website and if possible a brief description of the software.
- Resources
- Links to places to find more info about projects in this discipline.
- Projects
Domains/Departments
- Aeronautics and astronautics
- Recommended
- SunPy, a solar physics library actively maintained by NASA GSFC.
- Other
- MakerPlane, a project for building personal planes (article)
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Portland State (open source) Aerospace Society: http://psas.pdx.edu/
- NASA Open Source list at code.nasa.gov
- Recommended
- Atmospheric sciences
- Recommended
- Other
- OpenMadrigal - a database for accessing/archiving geospace data (does geospace == atmospheric science?)
- Testimonials
- Resources
- MIT's Haystack has some open projects
- OpenRadar has radio-related oss projects
- UCAR list
- Astronomy
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Biochemistry
- Recommended
- Other
- R - a programming language for statistical analysis
- Testimonials
- Resources
- Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Recommended
- OpenBabel - allows anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Recommended
- Economics
- Recommended
- R - a programming language for statistical analysis
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Recommended
- Geosciences
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Linguistics
- Recommended
- Other
- Joshua Machine Translation Toolkit
- Kura, a multi-user open source linguistic database
- Apertium open source machine translation
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- LINGUIST email discussion list and software index
- List of open source statistical NLP tools
- Sourceforge.net list of language-related software
- Materials science
- Recommended
- ESPRESSO - a software package for performing and analyzing simulations of “coarse-grained” models as used in soft-matter research
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources
- Recommended
- Mathematics
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources
- Neuroscience
- Recommended
- R - a programming language for statistical analysis
- NeuroDebian
- SPM - software for doing statistical parametric mapping analysis
- Octave
- BioSig - an open source software library for biomedical signal processing of biosignals such as EEG, ECoG, ECG, EOG and EMG
- Other
- Backyard Brains
- PsychoPy - a set of tools for doing stimulus presentation and capturing behavioral data
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Recommended
- Nuclear Engineering
- Recommended
- LAMMPS - a molecular dynamics library that can be used to model parallel atomic/subatomic processes at large scale, lead by Sandia National Laboratories
- Other
- OpenGeiger - an open source, open hardware Geiger Counter
- Testimonials
- Resources
- Recommended
- Physics
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Political science
- Recommended
- | Civic Commons - a website for sharing government tools
- Other
- Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT) - a suite of tools for analysis of text datasets
- R - a programming language for statistical analysis
- Testimonials
- Resources
- A number of | these government/civic projects might be applicable, though there are some proprietary projects mized in. The site itself is an open source project.
- Recommended
- Psychology
- Recommended:
- Other
- BioSig - an open source software library for biomedical signal processing of biosignals such as EEG, ECoG, ECG, EOG and EMG
- Testimonials
- Resources:
- Statistics
- Recommended
- Other
- Testimonials
- Resources: