Why Madagascar

Different people and different organizations act for different reasons. Madagascar can mean a lot of things for a lot of people. Feel free to add below your messages, as text, images or movies, for any category of potential users!

Individuals

Graduate student in small research group

Academic researcher with strong theoretical background

Professional researcher

Project manager

Corporations

Disorganized company

Tightly-run company with managers that never did professional programming

Academic research group or small company

Start-up company

Geophysical services company

Computer hardware company

Geophysical acquisition systems company

Why not another open-source package?

Most of the reasons above apply to any open-source package as well. Madagascar is not the only open-source geophysical package, but it is the only one to provide all the components of a shared research environment as described at the beginning of the Overview.