[mesa-users] Bug: multiple versions of the MESA manifesto

[Francis Timmes]

> … being able to redo and revise the computations for ourselves …

hear, hear! 

reproducibility is the foundation of research, 
the criteria by which all scientific claims are evaluated.
open instruments such as mesa can help this bedrock of science 
flourish within the stellar astrophysics community.

sergio - encourage your students to register on the mesa-user list
if appropriate. its good for them, the community, and mesa sponsors.
http://mesa.sourceforge.net/prereqs.html#toc-1-2

fxt




> On Nov 8, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Nov 8, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I think that will do it. I take it we're implicitly allowed to cherrypick
> Yup --- AOK.   
> 
> The motivation for the MANIFESTO is not make it harder for people to use MESA!
> 
> It is to encourage the widespread movement toward sharing open sources
> and "open know how" so that we can go beyond reading papers 
> and saying "Gee that's great, I wonder how they do that!" to being
> able to redo and revise the computations for ourselves to build directly
> on previous efforts as a community of scientists.  This wide sharing is a
> new opportunity that only recently become possible with the internet.
> In the old days (20 years ago), it would have been nearly impossible
> to support widespread users working closely in this manner.  
> 
> I'm glad you and your students will be using MESA.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill
> 
> 
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