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Marcus D. Hanwell | Marcus leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open source tools for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware in late 2009. He is now a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, a member of the Blue Obelisk, blogs, @mhanwell on Twitter and is active on Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us.
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Great article, and something I have been thinking about a lot myself. Technical skills are important, but so are passion, and a commitment to open principles. It is great to see you and others at Red Hat putting so much into articulating how you are doing things, and sharing these practices with the wider community. I joke occasionally about titles, PhDs, MBAs, etc, but having come from an open source background before entering the workplace I have always loved how little titles and education have to do with influence.
I didn't know about some of the recent progress in editing PDFs, I use pdflatex a lot, but also a number of other editing tools that support export to PDF.