Christopher Barker wrote:
In general, unfortunately, it looks to be quite commercially-focused: how does one get the open source community to be represented in this kind of thing?
I do not know the details, but one of the members of the consortium - Scilab consortium - is kind of open-source. Well, their license is not purely free (http://www.scilab.org/legal/license.html, http://www.scilab.org/legal/index_legal.php?page=faq.html#q6), but it is definitely not a commercial project. Perhaps some Scilab people could answer some open-source related questions. Note that I am not related to the NMC in any way, it is really that I only found this link and as a newcomer to Python computing community, I am simply interested what are the attitudes towards these issues here. Zdenek