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=== Key Accomplishments ===
 
=== Key Accomplishments ===
  
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Major software releases:
 
* GRASS 6.3.0 released - a technology preview ([http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass630.html announcement])
 
* GRASS 6.3.0 released - a technology preview ([http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass630.html announcement])
 
* GRASS 6.4.0 prepared and release candidates published ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/WikiStart#Releases details])
 
* GRASS 6.4.0 prepared and release candidates published ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/WikiStart#Releases details])
 
* Work on [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning GRASS 7] started
 
* Work on [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning GRASS 7] started
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* Integration of GRASS into the [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass OSGeo4W installer] now active and productive
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* In total '''22 TB of downloads''' from grass.osgeo.org in 2008: (detailed [http://grass.osgeo.org/logs-bin/awstats.pl?month=all&year=2008&output=main&config=grass.osgeo.org&framename=index statistics]; not including downloads from mirror sites)
  
* Integration of GRASS into the [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass OSGeo4W installer] now active and productive
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Users and developers:
 
* New developers acquired: '''5''' to main archive, '''12''' to AddOns repository.
 
* New developers acquired: '''5''' to main archive, '''12''' to AddOns repository.
 
 
* More than 1000 subscribers in the grass-user mailing list
 
* More than 1000 subscribers in the grass-user mailing list
 
: (470 in grass-dev, many more in the other [http://grass.osgeo.org/community/support.php GRASS mailing lists])
 
: (470 in grass-dev, many more in the other [http://grass.osgeo.org/community/support.php GRASS mailing lists])
 
* In total '''22 TB of downloads''' from grass.osgeo.org in 2008
 
: ([http://grass.osgeo.org/logs-bin/awstats.pl?month=all&year=2008&output=main&config=grass.osgeo.org&framename=index statistic]; not including downloads from mirror sites)
 
 
* Three [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/osgeo/about.html Google Summer of Code] projects awarded and completed.
 
* Three [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/osgeo/about.html Google Summer of Code] projects awarded and completed.
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* [http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics Translations]: more than 10 languages are well supported
  
* [http://www.grassbook.org/ 3rd edition of Neteler and Mitasova's GRASS Book] published by Springer.
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Books and book chapters:
: <font size="-2">--HB: ''while not per se a direct accomplishment of the project or PSC, it is an important milestone for the community that such a book has been published about it (repeatedly) by a major scientific publishing house.''</font>
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* [http://www.grassbook.org/ 3rd edition of Neteler and Mitasova's GRASS Book] published by Springer, an important milestone for the community that such a book has been published (repeatedly) by a major scientific publishing house
 
 
 
* Chapter about GRASS published in [http://www.springer.com/geography/gis+cartography/book/978-3-540-74830-4 Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling].
 
* Chapter about GRASS published in [http://www.springer.com/geography/gis+cartography/book/978-3-540-74830-4 Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling].
  
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics Translations]: more than 10 languages are well supported
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Visibility at conferences and workshops:
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* 29 Sep-3 Oct 2008: [http://www.foss4g2008.org/ FOSS4G 2008 Conference], Cape Town, South Africa
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* 18-19 Sep 2008:  [http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/wiki/index.php/Geoinformatics_FCE_CTU_2008 Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2008 Conference], Prague, Czech Republic
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* 8-9 May 2008: [http://www.perseo.lettere.unipd.it/workshop08/doku.php 3° Workshop Open Source], Free Software e Open Format nei processi di ricerca archeologica, Padua, Italy
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* 1-3 Apr 2008: [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2008 FOSSGIS 2008], Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
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* 3-5 Mar 2008: [http://www.sigte.udg.es/jornadassiglibre II Open Source GIS Users Meeting] (Spanish FOSS)
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* 21-22 Feb 2008: [http://www.grassmeeting2008.unipg.it/ IX Meeting degli Utenti Italiani di GRASS - GFOSS], Perugia, Italy
  
 
=== Areas for Improvement ===
 
=== Areas for Improvement ===

Revision as of 13:54, 7 March 2009

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GRASS GIS

Key Accomplishments

Major software releases:

  • GRASS 6.3.0 released - a technology preview (announcement)
  • GRASS 6.4.0 prepared and release candidates published (details)
  • Work on GRASS 7 started
  • Integration of GRASS into the OSGeo4W installer now active and productive
  • In total 22 TB of downloads from grass.osgeo.org in 2008: (detailed statistics; not including downloads from mirror sites)

Users and developers:

  • New developers acquired: 5 to main archive, 12 to AddOns repository.
  • More than 1000 subscribers in the grass-user mailing list
(470 in grass-dev, many more in the other GRASS mailing lists)

Books and book chapters:

Visibility at conferences and workshops:

Areas for Improvement

  • An automated build environment, especially for the OSGeo4W installer is desired
  • Development of a framework for efficient and semi-automated translations of the 400+ module help pages
  • Unrelated to the GRASS development: a SVN history "annotate" ability for Trac source code browser would be helpful

Opportunities to Help

Outlook for 2009

  • Vector topology speedup
  • Overhaul of raster library
  • Partially addition of parallelization (mostly using openMP)
  • Cartography GUI extension programmed
  • Further participation in Google Summer of Code (we hope)
  • Stability on MS Windows leading to incredible gain of new users
  • Move/removal of web-svn documentation to our MediaWiki site; move/removal of development material from MediaWiki to our TracWiki site