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=About Madagascar=
==Introduction==
[[Main Page]] of the wiki, and the [[Package overview]].

==For people who do not read manuals==
Point them to [[Download]], [[Installation|Short Install Guide]], and the [[Revisiting SEP tour with Madagascar and SCons|SEPlib Tour Revisited]].

==Why use Madagascar?==
An articulate description of the reasons on the [[Why Madagascar]] page. Have some spectacular pictures obtained with algorithms that are not present in other packages. Describe algorithms/tools unavailable in other open-source geophysical data analysis packages.

==Community==
A description of the current Madagascar community, with the map of downloads and an estimate of the number of installs, who are the biggest users, outstanding research results obtained with Madagascar, etc. Links to the [http://reproducibility.org/rsflog/ blog], [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsf-user user mailing list], [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsf-devel developer mailing list]. Mention of the Google Groups mirrors for [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/osdeve_mirror_geophysics_rsf-user rsf-user] and [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/osdeve_mirror_geophysics_rsf-devel rsf-devel] Also mention the [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=162909&atid=825645 bug tracker] and [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=162909&atid=825648 feature request tracker], encouraging the community to use them more. Mention [http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=162909 forums] as an alternative for those who want to ask questions or conduct discussions without subscribing to a mailing list.

==History==
A history of Madagascar, with the SEPlib/SU part of the [[Introduction_to_madagascar#Alternatives|"Alternatives" section of the Introduction]], and mentions of landmark events (short descriptions where necessary): 
* 2003: Work started by Sergey Fomel
* 2004-08 (?): made available to selected alpha users
* 2005-02-16: RSF Blog started
* 2006-03-17: Registered on Sourceforge
* 2006-04-19: [http://www.m8r.info/rsflog/index.php?/archives/67-Madagascar.html Name change from RSF to Madagascar]
* 2006-06-11: Public launch at the Open Source E&P Software EAGE Workshop (Vienna)
* 2006-06-18: [http://www.m8r.info/rsflog/index.php?/archives/74-Mailing-lists-and-madagascar-0.9.1.html First stable version (0.9.1). Mailing lists created]
* 2006-07-23: [http://www.m8r.info/rsflog/index.php?/archives/86-New-madagascar-logo.html Madagascar logo created by Scott Rodgers (BEG)]
* 2007-04-27: Release 0.9.4
* 2007-11-10: Release 0.9.5
* 2008-06-14: Release 0.9.6
* 2009-01-03: Release 0.9.7
* 2009-08-01: Release 0.9.8
* 2010-05-02: Release 0.9.9
* 2010-07-23: Release 1.0
* For details on releases after 1.0, see [[Release Notes]]

A link to the appendix containing the content of the [[Conferences]] and [[Publications]] pages.