[OpendTect_Users] Presentations from EAGE Workshop Open-source E&P Software - Six Years Later

[Karl Schleicher]

I thought the readers of this list might be interested in the open workshop presentations.  Don't miss Helen Huck's presentation "The road to open source: sharing a ten years experience in building OpendTect"
Presentations from EAGE Workshop Open-source E&P Software - Six Years Later
Friday 8 June
Convenors: Joseph Dellinger (BP), Karl Schleicher (University of Texas at Austin), Helene Huck (dGB), and Tariq Alkhalifah (KAUST)
The EAGE workshop on Open-Source E&P Software – Six Years Later was held after the EAGE convention in Copenhagen on 8 June, 2012. The workshop remembered the past, surveyed the current state, and looked to the future. This was an an opportunity for stimulating interaction between developers and users of open source software for the oil and gas, exploration and production industry.

Many people could not attend and others want to refer back to the presentations at the workshop. The abstracts, posters, and presentations collected have been posted on the web at:
http://reproducibility.org/wiki/Copenhagen_2012

There are also personal reports on the event at:
http://www.agilegeoscience.com/journal/2012/6/12/two-decades-of-geophysics-freedom.html
and
http://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_notXWcvuh8enlzVnZIdzlIQnM/edit?pli=1#

The economic benefits of a collaborative open-source exploration and production processing and research software environment would be enormous. Skilled geophysicists could spend more of their time doing innovative geophysics instead of mediocre computer science. Technical advances could be quickly shared and reproduced instead of laboriously re-invented and reverse-engineered. Oil companies, contractors, academics, and individuals would all benefit. There are now several packages that are comprehensive enough that for some purposes they might fill that bill. Unfortunately, not all of these are as well known as they deserve to be. There is a tremendous opportunity for better collaboration. I encourage you to enroll and participate in groups like:

Open Source Geoscience linkedin group
Seismic Unix list server
Madagascar list server and linked in group
OpendTect users list server
 		 	   		  
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