Hello,
My name is Deep and I am structural geologist by training who is trying to get into geodynamics and geophysics. I learnt GMT a long time ago and trying to pick up PyGMT as I have been learning Python. Hope to ask a lot of questions as I am a beginner to both PyGMT and Python but I will try to focus my questions towards PyGMT only.
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Hi, Leo and all,
I finally got around to joining. About time!
I am Walter Smith, co-conspirator with Paul Wessel in creating GMT since day one.
So glad to have so many people engaged in using and improving GMT and keeping the project alive and still growing better after more than 30+ years!
āWalter
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Hello everyone, I am from Iceland working in geothermal. I used GMT some years ago (version 3.*) and I am back to get familiar with version(s) 6+
Cheers
Bjarni
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Hi There
I just installed PyGMT in few days ago, previously I am enjoy with GMT 4 and 5.
It would be good to dive deeply with GMT 6 by using PyGMT
My name is Zulfakriza,
I am a seismologist
My affiliation is Global Geophysics Research Group, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Thank you
Zulfakriza
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I feel your pain! 
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Hey There,
Jose Borrero here from Raglan, New Zealand. I do coastal engineering and environmental consulting as well as a bit of tsunami research and consulting.
Love GMT, have been using it off and on for years, since the late 90ās?? Always struggling, always learning!
Anyway, love the new forum, just started working with GMT6, but only on my ātestā computer. Still havenāt moved over on the machine that pays the billsā¦!
Keen to try PyGMT when i can muster up the courage! (and the time).
Thanks!
-jose
Hello.
I am Federico from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am a marine geologist oriented to geophysics from the Instituto de Geociencias BƔsicas, Aplicadas y Ambientales de Buenos Aires. I start using GMT in 2009 (v. 3.4.3) and I like it very much. I have done some workshops/courses to teach GMT and I have a blog with GMT stuff (http://mapasgeologicos.blogspot.com/).
Ā”Hola! @Esteban82, Kia Ora @jocabo, Selamat Datang @zulfakriza, and Hello 
to everyone else!
My name is Wei Ji, one of the maintainers of PyGMT, originally from Brunei 
/Malaysia 
but now living in Wellington, New Zealand 
. Currently a PhD student doing remote sensing 
and also some deep learning stuff focusing on the bed of Antarctica 
, using pygmt for various data processing/visualization tasks.
I started using GMT 5 back in 2015 for the great 3D grdview perspective plots, and reconnected with GMT 6/PyGMT in 2018. It was around then that I started contributing to PyGMT to wrap up some functions, and also managed to host a PyGMT Workshop at FOSS4G Oceania 2019.
Things have definitely came a long way, and itās great to see such a diverse community from all over the world 
! Canāt help but notice that some of you have websites with GMT tutorials, some in different languages too. We should definitely have something like an awesome list of āGMT Examples from the Communityā somewhere to gather up all these great examples 
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Wei Ji, thatās the land of Sandokan. Waw!
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Hello, everyone, Iām Luis Vega, a student in Earth Sciences at the Center for Scientific Investigation and Higher Education at Ensenada (Mexico - CICESE). Iām new in GMT, and I am trying to use GMT6 for my Tesis.
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Hello, Iām Nicolas. I use GMT forā¦ my hobbies.
Hi everyone,
Iām Tim. Iāve been using GMT since, I think, 1993. I work in Australia at the Bureau of Meteorology, but learnt GMT in New Zealand.
In my biased opinion, GMT is the best free map plotting package out there (I have no idea about non-free packages).
Cheers,
Tim.
Hello, everyone, Iām Oyeyemi David, a researcher in Applied geophysics and Geotechnical engineering at Covenant University, Nigeria. Quite new in GMT, and would love to use all these tools in my research.
Aloha. Iām a multi-disciplinary type who has worked with GMT for many years and like to apply it outside of geophysics especially. Iām a research scientist at UCSD where I work at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and SIO. Iām physically either in Encinitas or Maui most of the time.
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Dear All, I am GĆ”bor Papp, a Hungarian geodesists, or more specifically a āhomo gravimetricusā. I have been working with GMT for 25 years (starting from ver. 3.4) on HP Unix platforms. Now I would like to install the new 6.0 version on our HP RX2800 Itanium server but a kind help on how to do that would be fine. I am neither a Unix nor a linux guru, just a user writing my own Fortran codes and it seems that my first efforts to install the package failed. And I do not really understand what the āflavour differenceā between make, cmake, etcā¦ is. Many-many years ago I could easily install the package but now I am a bit lost. Is there anybody who did it successfully on the same platform? Many thanks for your help in advance! GĆ”bor
Please, ask your question in Q&A. Here they risk to be lost.
Hi Gabor, I remember you. Long time since anyone brought up HPUX. Not sure how HPUX deals with installing software but you would have to start with getting all the prerequisists installed (cmake, GDAL, PCRE, netcdf, etc etc) first, then install the GSHHS and DCW data sets. Now you can try to follow the rest of the BUILDING instructions on the GitHub site.
just say āHiā 
Iām a postdoc at Macau University of Science and Technology. My current research interests include disturbances in Earthās ionosphere.
If you know Agata Dias, a Geologist in your University, give her my regards.
Hi Paul, it is amazing that you remember me although we have not had any contact for a quarter of a century. Of course, when I use GMT I always think of both of you, Smith and Wessel, as good friends of mine. When I was in Finland at the Finnish Geodetic Institute in 1995 I installed there GMT and I advertised it as a super gun of āSmith and Wessonāā¦ Excuse me to make a joke on your family name but it was so straightforward. I hope that you do not mind it. And really GMT is as famous as a revolver made by S&W.
OK, many thanks for the encouragement I will try to do my best on this HP platform. Maybe I will attempt to install an older couple of netCDF and GMT because the old style make process is not so strange for me. Letās see how it goesā¦