MADAGASCAR software package and reproducible research

Acknowledgments

In addition to the authors of this paper, many people contributed to the development of MADAGASCAR. We would like to thank...

Appendix A

Basic facts about MADAGASCAR

The work on the MADAGASCAR package (previously named RSF for Regularly Sampled Format) started in 2003. The package got publicly released during an EAGE Workshop on open-source E&P Software in Vienna in June 2006. Since then, more than 25 people have contributed to its development, writing cummulatively almost 300,000 lines of code.

Ohloh, a website that maps the landscape of open-source software development, evaluates MADAGASCAR as

• Mature, well-established codebase;
• Increasing year-over-year development activity;
• Large, active development team.

Several events helped promote MADAGASCAR in the geophysical and signal processing communities (Table 1.)

year	location	name
2006	Vancouver, Canada	School and Workshop on Reproducible Research
		in Computational Geophysics
2007	Austin, TX	Short Course on Using and Extending MADAGASCAR
2008	Golden, CO	Implementation Workshop
2009	Delft, the Netherlands	School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics
2010	Houston, TX	School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics
		and Hands-On Workshop

Table A-1. MADAGASCAR annual events

MADAGASCAR software package and reproducible research