Editing Houston 2011 (section)

== Wrap up and follow up ==

The Petroleum Technology Transfer Council held a workshop in June on open software for reproducible computational geophysics at the Bureau of Economic Geology's Houston Research Center. It was two packed days of presentations, live demos, and spirited discussion.<br><br>  

As part of the workshop wrap up I am passing on the followup items identified at the end of the workshop along with an update on the progress.  Please forward to others that may be interested.  The workshop follow up items are:<br><br>

1- Set up linkedIn group “Open Source Geophysical Software”<br>
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/open-source-geoscience-3974308?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
is setup.  Join the group and follow future progress.  THIS IS THE MOST IMPROTANT ITEM BECAUSE IT IS THE GATEWAY TO FURTHER DISCUSSION.<br><br>

2- Write a workshop report<br>
Matt Hall wrote the report published at http://reproducibility.org/wiki/Houston_2011.  This report will be submitted to The Leading Edge, First Break, the Geophysical Society of Houston newsletter, and the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology web page.<br><br>

3- Make presentations available<br>
Most presentations have been posted at http://reproducibility.org/wiki/Houston_2011<br><br>

4- Work with SEG<br>
Joe Dellinger and Karl Schleicher attended the SEG Online Commitee.  The chairman encouraged us to consider creating a collaboration area within SEG Online in addition to the linkedIn group.  It is great that SEG wants to collaborate with us.<br><br>

5- Follow up meetings and presentations<br>
I contacted Houston Geophysical Society Data Processing SIG to ask about occasionally adding open software to their program.  We want to have workshop in Europe and one in the US next year.   A more frequent study group meeting was suggested.<br><br>

6- Data distribution<br>
We need to collaborate on data storage and distribution.  Data has special license issues.  Field data, synthetic data, and source code have three sets of issues.<br><br>

I thank all the people who made this happen.  Many thanks to Sergey Fomel, Robert Newsham, speakers, and attendees.  What a group!  I was stunned and left wanting more.  This workshop is wrapped up!  Join the linkedIn group for the sequel!<br><br>

Regards,<br>
Karl Schleicher<br>