Re:Maybe this would help me in Chemistry (Score 1)

What you saw were announcements of JMol and JChemPaint - a 3D viewer and an editor. The www.openscience.org site mentioned in the freshmeat postings is not associated with the Open Source/OpenScience meeting at BNL, as far as I know. After all, "inventing" the term Open Science after all that (well justified) Open Source hype seems to be quite obvious.