One of our own (Arturo Montalva) has an article scheduled to be published in the October issue of STRUCTURE Magazine. Arturo (along with his co-authors Jeff Baylor and Klaus Wittig) is presenting What Can Open Source Structural Software Do For You? The article discusses the use of Open Source Software which is extensively used in the Computer Science community but rarely in Structural Engineering. In this particular article, the authors present an overview of Calculix (available online), an FEM code similar to Abaqus(R) and primarily developed by Guido Dhondt and Klaus Wittig.