GRASS GIS Report 2011

GRASS GIS Report 2011

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• Contact name: Markus Neteler, PSC Chair

Key Accomplishments

• GRASS 6.4.1 released, see details
• GRASS 6.4.2RC1 released, see details
• New winGRASS 6.4.1RCs stand-alone package, MacOSX installer and Linux package released
• Google Summer of Code 2011 participation with three projects:

Anna Kratochvilova:"Completion of wxGUI Nviz extension for 3D data visualization in GRASS GIS"

Luca Delucci: r.in.modis GRASS GIS

Margherita Di Leo: "GUI for r.stream* tools"

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

Participation in conferences

• 17-19 Jun 2011: 1st GRASS and GFOSS Hellenic Users Camp, Paou Monastery, Pelion, Volos, Greece
• 6-9 June 2011: Scientific Workshop 2011 "Spatial Analysis with GRASS", Wroclaw, Poland
• 20-25 May 2011: GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2011, Prague, Czech Republic (press release)
• 19-20 May 2011: Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2011 - International Conference on Free Software and Open Source in Geoinformatics, Prague, Czech Republic
• 12-13 May 2011: Open software for geodesy and geoinformation science conference, Wroclaw, Poland
• 9-11 Feb 2011: GRASS and FOSS4G-IT user meeting 2011, Trento, Italy - XII Meeting degli utenti di lingua Italiana di GRASS e FOSS4G, Trento, Italy

Education

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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 2012

• Organize GRASS GIS Community Sprint