The barrier is convincing researchers that their code doesn't have to be beautiful to open source it, it just has to be checkable by someone else with the same domain knowledge.
Fortunately, a lot of the scientific Python community seems to be getting behind the idea of building IPython Notebooks that document scientific workflow. That seems to be a step in the right direction.
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The barrier is convincing researchers that their code doesn't have to be beautiful to open source it, it just has to be checkable by someone else with the same domain knowledge.
Fortunately, a lot of the scientific Python community seems to be getting behind the idea of building IPython Notebooks that document scientific workflow. That seems to be a step in the right direction.