The Scientific Gentoo project manages science related activities in Gentoo as well as maintains packages that belong to the sci herd and its sub-herds.
Scientific Gentoo's purpose is to create an easy way for scientific community to use Gentoo Linux to their advantage and to also make it easy to contribute back, should such desire emerge. The project strives to provide a powerfull set of scientific packages as well as wide configurability options that users of Gentoo have come to expect. Additional goals of Scientific Gentoo are to create and maintain relevant documentation as well as to organize activities related to both science and Gentoo.
| Developer | Nickname | Role |
| George Shapovalov | george | Lead |
| Donnie Berkholz | dberkholz | Computational chemistry |
| Sebastien Fabbro | bicatali | Core member |
| Markus Dittrich | markusle | Core member |
| Steve Arnold | nerdboy | Core member |
| Patrick Kursawe | phosphan | Core member |
| Olivier Fisette | ribosome | Core member |
| Andrey Kislyuk | weaver | Core member, computational biology |
| jlec | Junior member, proxy maintainer |
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.
Resources offered by the Scientific Gentoo project are: