GRASS GIS Report 2010

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GRASS GIS Report 2010

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
  • 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
  • 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

Areas for Improvement

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