[dot] KDE Conquers Astrophysicists with Kst

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1083169455/

From: Tom Chance <>
Dept: point-your-telescope-at-this-one
Date: Wednesday 28/Apr/2004, @18:24

KDE Conquers Astrophysicists with Kst
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   The Free Software community is constantly inundated with interesting
new projects, but occasionally something crops up which is really
special. Kst [http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst/] is just such a
project. Started by Barth Netterfield [http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/],
an astrophysicist, as a personal project to plot data from his
experiments, it has now taken on a life of its own, being used in
numerous academic projects, and finding funding from several government
agencies. Intrigued by this project's success, and with a little prod
from co-developer George Staikos
[http://www.kde.org/areas/people/george.html], I interviewed Barth and
George [http://www.tomchance.org.uk/writing/kstinterview/] about kst,
Free Software and physics.