GRASS GIS Report 2010
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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
- 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
- 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