Free-Open Scientific Software
for Borderless Modelling
The non-profit ModLibre programme is dedicated since November 2000 to Free-Open Scientific Software for Borderless Modelling (ModLibre = Modélisation Libre = Free-Open Modelling).
The ModLibre program is more and more involved in the promotion of free-open ressources for education and research, especially during local or international meetings. Some presentations are available on-line.
General or specialized public may be concerned, from nursery school to university:
- GCompris (http://gcompris.net/index-en.html) a high quality educational software suite.
- The OLPC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child) project and its successors Sugar Labs (https://www.sugarlabs.org/) and Sugarizer (https://sugarizer.org/).
- PhET (https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/html) libre and portable scientific simulations.
- Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/about) for kids programming animations and games.
- Python (https://www.python.org/) for general programming by kids and adults.
- Scilab (https://www.scilab.org/en), a free and open source software for numerical computation.
- SageMath (http://www.sagemath.org/), a free/libre mathematical softare for numerical and algebraic computation.
Most of these activities are pursued with the following associations:
- AFUL (http://www.aful.org/) : French speaking Libre Software Users' Association.
- AXUL (http://www.axul.org/) : Association du Pays d'aiX des Utilisateurs de Linux et des Logiciels Libres.
- OLPC-France (http://olpc-france.org) : French association for One Laptop Per Child.
- SFBT (http://sfbt.math.cnrs.fr/en/sfbt/org/index.html) : French-speaking Society for Theoretical Biology.
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