The OSS development model provides important benefits for researchers, developers of scientific applications, and funding agencies. Software user's benefit from the existence of free and better quality software. The open model fits strongly with the scientific peer-review process. And the distribution of development effort that grows out of an OSS project benefits funding agencies by enabling them to allocate more funds towards novel science. We encourage you to visit and utilize the resources we've mentioned in this article, and by doing so become a part of the OSS community.