GRASS GIS Report 2010

GRASS GIS Report 2010

 * Contact name: Markus Neteler, PSC Chair

Key Accomplishments

 * GRASS 6.4.1RCs released, see details
 * New winGRASS 6.4.1RCs stand-alone package, MacOSX installer and Linux package released
 * Google Summer of Code 2010 participation with two projects:
 * Martin Landa: wxNviz development for enhanced 3/4D visualization and analysis
 * Seth Price: GPU accelerated imagery resampling and reprojection


 * Getting GRASS 7 development into a usable state, offering many new features

Participation in conferences

 * 17 Nov 2010: GIS Day 2010, Warszawa, Poland - GRASS Lecture and GRASS Workshop, Warszawa, Poland
 * 31 Oct - 3 Nov 2010: Presentations at Geological Society of America Annual meeting: Pardee keynote and poster
 * 15-17 Oct 2010: 41st International Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS) on Geospatial Technologies & Geomorphological Mapping: several presentations, winning student poster
 * 13-16 Sep 2010: XII Annual Scientific GRASS Workshop in Wroclaw "Spatial Analysis with GRASS" - Wroclaw, Poland
 * 11 Sep 2010: Helena Mitasova Receives Sol Katz Award - Congratulations Helena!
 * 6-9 Sep 2010: Various presentations at the FOSS4G - "the conference" for Open Source Geospatial Software, Barcelona, Spain
 * 1-2 May 2010: Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2010 - Free and Open Source Software in Geoinformatics, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 14-16 April 2010: Presentations in symposia at the American Association of Geographers meeting, Washington, DC, USA
 * 11-12 Feb 2010: FOSS4G-IT 2010, Lugano - XI Meeting degli utenti di lingua Italiana di GRASS e FOSS4G, Lugano, Switzerland

Education

 * University courses based on GRASS: inventory posted

Areas for Improvement

 * develop a migration guide for public administration
 * improve the existing sponsorship program

Opportunities to Help

 * help in translating GRASS GIS messages: need for translators
 * help in preparing more marketing material: update flyers and poster in different languages, prepare new website

Outlook for 2011

 * Organize GRASS GIS Community Sprint