Difference between revisions of "GRASS GIS Report 2008"

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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:

(470 in grass-dev, many more in the other GRASS mailing lists)

Books and book chapters:

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 Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling.

Visibility at conferences and workshops:

29 Sep-3 Oct 2008: FOSS4G 2008 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
18-19 Sep 2008: Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2008 Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
8-9 May 2008: 3° Workshop Open Source, Free Software e Open Format nei processi di ricerca archeologica, Padua, Italy
1-3 Apr 2008: FOSSGIS 2008, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
3-5 Mar 2008: II Open Source GIS Users Meeting (Spanish FOSS)
21-22 Feb 2008: IX Meeting degli Utenti Italiani di GRASS - GFOSS, Perugia, Italy

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

Find more translators among the (power) users
Publish more "GRASS use cases" in the GRASS Wiki to inspire newcomers
We require more volunteers for help with native MS Windows packaging and testing
Crossover with QGIS: QGIS grass-plugin and toolbox maintainer(s) required

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

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