<div dir="ltr">As a user since I started grad school in 2009, I remain a huge fan of GrADS. Even though I now use a lot of Python and matplotlib for plotting, GrADS still produces at least as high quality, if not higher quality, geographic plots than any other graphics software I have seen over the past 9 years, and is my first pick for plotting meteorological graphics. I will continue to use it, but am sad to see the support cease. Hopefully it will continue to be useful for years to come.<div><br></div><div>Thanks to Jennifer and the other support staff who kept GrADS going over all these years.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff Duda</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:41 AM, John Ciolek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jciolek@alphatrac.com" target="_blank">jciolek@alphatrac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thank you Jennifer, Brian, and the rest of your team for what you have done with GrADS! I hope you realize how much the atmospheric science community appreciates your effort and outstanding support. I’m sure you will hear from many echoing that feeling as you truly deserve it. <div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 26, 2018, at 7:30 AM, Jennifer M Adams <<a href="mailto:jadams21@gmu.edu" target="_blank">jadams21@gmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-2479517768528586720Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Dear All,<br>The time has come to announce some changes at COLA that will affect all of us: the funding that supports GrADS has come to an end. Brian Doty will be retiring at the end of the summer, and I will be moving to NASA/GSFC to work in the Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC). Both of us will continue to be active GrADS users, and our plan is to move the source code to GitHub where it will become a more traditional open source project. Our development and support of GrADS going forward will be a volunteer effort, but I sincerely hope you will not interpret this news as a reason to stop using GrADS. We feel that our recent changes to GrADS make it a flexible and extendable tool with a stable core and the necessary hooks for further customization by ambitious users. COLA will continue to host this forum, and I will remain as the moderator and frequent contributor. I promise to do what I can to ensure that GrADS remains relevant, useful, and fast. <br>—Jennifer<br><br>--<br>Jennifer Miletta Adams<br>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)<br>George Mason University<br><br><br><br><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/gradsusr</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div>
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