Please reserve the date for the Madagascar “event of the year”: the School and Workshop in Houston on July 23-24, 2010. The program details and registration information will follow soon.

A new stable release of madagascar is another step toward the first non-beta version (madagascar-1.0) anticipated to be released later this year. This release features new reproducible papers and many other improvements. One new feature is the nonseismic package, which contains a subset of the full package for people who do not work with seismic data. The cumulative number of downloads for all stable versions has reached 8,000.

Update Madagascar and try “\F17” and “\F18”, respectively. The ligatures can be found in Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana.

A new stable release of madagascar is yet another step toward the first non-beta version (madagascar-1.0). It features new reproducible papers and many other improvements. The cumulative number of downloads for all stable versions has reached 5,500.

Michael Tobis has submitted a Madagascar application to the Google Summer of Code. Check out the ideas page.

The greatest strength of open source software is the community of users and developers, with fast, two-way lateral communication that enables quick learning and rapid feedback cycles. Communication between users is improved when they know each other’s backgrounds better.
To help users to better know each other, a Madagascar group was created on the LinkedIn professional networking site. Those of you who are members of LinkedIn, or are interested in becoming members, are welcome to join and to invite other Madagascar users. To keep away the ubiquitous spammers, admission to the group is subject to approval, but this will be granted as soon as possible to anybody who looks like a “real person”.
LinkedIn offers forum capabilities as well, but please note that this is not an attempt to shift communication from existing channels (mailing lists, wiki, Sourceforge bug/feature request trackers/etc). On the contrary, since social networking sites generally try to “lock-in” users, and are not open to non-users, I would strongly recommend _not_ using their discussion forums, but just using LinkedIn’s connection features to get to know each other better.
Please note that this is not an endorsement of either social networking sites in general or LinkedIn in particular. It’s just something entirely voluntary that some people find useful. For those of you who are not familiar with what LinkedIn is, a description can be found on Wikipedia.

The madagascar event of the year is the School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, which will be hosted by the Delft University of Technology on June 12-13, right after the EAGE meeting in Amsterdam. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register, send a free-form email to rsfschool@gmail.com.

Madagascar gets mentioned in the special issue on reproducible research of Computing in Science & Engineering.

A new stable release of madagascar is another step toward the first non-beta version (madagascar-1.0). It features new reproducible papers and other improvements. The total number of downloads for all stable versions has reached 4,000.

Madagascar gets mentioned in an article by Layton Payne from dGB Earth Sciences in the E&P magazine.