GRASS Community Sprint Vienna 2014
The GRASS GIS team will participate in Vienna Code Sprint 2014 (see also the Wiki page). The sprint will be held from 24 to 28 March 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
Purpose
This Vienna Code Sprint 2014 is a great occasion for folks to support the development by actively contributing to the source code, manuals or likewise. This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (i.e. OSGeo software projects mainly written in the C programming language). Other tribes are of course welcome to join this sprint. We hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.
For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project and the interfaces to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R statistics, Sextante, gvSIG, OGC Services (esp. WPS) and more. This includes developers, documenters, bug reporters, translators and others. We'll try to make a major step forward towards a stable GRASS GIS 7 release.
Sponsors
Please check more info on the Vienna Code Sprint Sponsoring page.
We welcome also direct financial contributions to help reducing travelling and accommodation expenses for GRASS developers with far arrival If you are interested to sponsor the GRASS Community Sprint, please read about
- sponsoring the GRASS project at http://grass.osgeo.org/donations
Note that it is also possible to buy a round of beer for the developers with a quick click using the PayPal "Buy [pizza/beer/...] Now" button
For any questions, please contact Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to the GRASS GIS project.
This GRASS GIS Community Sprint is a great occasion for you to support the development of GRASS. With your contribution you'll enable more developers to meet. The community sprint is an important opportunity for the GRASS developers to discuss and collaboratively resolve bugs, plan the direction for the project and work on new features. Please see below for the more detailed agenda. The developers and contributors are donating their valuable time, so it would be great if in-kind funding can be made available from within the community to cover out-of-pocket expenses. All of the work that takes place at the community sprint will be directly contributed back into the GRASS project to the benefit of everyone who uses it.
The Vienna event is especially interesting since important OSGeo projects come together!
Thanks to our sponsors
- Donations via PayPal
- Pietro Blu Giandonato
- Johannes Radinger
- Alessandro Fanna
- 25EUR donated in summary via Paypal
Timing
When: 24-28 March, 2014
Certainly you may join or leave the community sprint whenever you prefer.
Duration: All week
Venue
The City of Vienna MA 14 gladly provides the location for the Vienna Code Sprint for up to 60 sprinters in their very new office called STAR 22 (Stadlauer Straße 56, 22. Bezirk, Wien, see also OSM map).
The venue is not far from the center of Vienna, Austria, and can be easily reached from the Vienna airport via train (~25min via train and subway).
Accommodation and Costs
Please check on the wiki page of the sprint more information about accommodation and cost. The participation is free of charge. However, participants should plan for the following costs:
- Travel to Vienna
- Accommodation for four nights
- Breakfast and dinner (partly)
Agenda - What we plan to do
Note: The program is generally open for your ideas. Please write an email to the GRASS developer list to discuss your contribution or modify this wiki.
Further details about the action items you find here and below. Topics cover non-technical, semi-technical, and technical issues.
Timeline
24-28 March 2014
Ideas:
- fix Python issues on winGRASS
- fix r.li.setup in GRASS 7, critical backports as needed for G6
- Release GRASS GIS 6.4.4RC1
- Release GRASS GIS 7 tech preview
- Add to the GRASS manual a new page: "How to import own maps into a new location"
- 64-bit build of WinGRASS
- Re-export NC dataset rasters to geotiff for edu dataset
- Turn GRASS intro documentation and reference manuals into an eBook+PDF programmatically
Monday, 24 March
- Gathering (add room info)
- Presentation of participants (who is who :-) )
Tuesday, 25 March
- ...
Wednesday, 26 March
- ...
Thursday, 27 March
- ...
Friday, 28 March
- ...
Participation
In person
Please fill the related table on the wiki page of the sprint.
Via IRC chat or hangout
IRC
- #grass on Freenode
For details, see IRC
Hangout/Videobridge
There is the option to use Google+ Hangout, it is technically limited to 10 people and may require everyone to have G+ social media accounts to participate. More Information on G+ hangout.
Similarly multi-video conference calls can be done with Skype if the conference call initiator is a paid-up commercial Skype customer.
The FOSS Jitsi VoIP, IM, and video conferencing software produces a trivial to set up VideoBridge server software to the same. New: https://meet.jit.si -- zero-conf free no-accounts needed video conferencing; chat, etherpad, and prezi built in. (needs recent Opera or Chrome/Chromium with WebRTC support)
Further discussion on the pros and cons of these can be found on the Talk side of this wiki page.
Please add yourself here below (please add also your gmail account for G+ hangout):
- ...
Individual Preparation
- Bring your own computer
- Bring power connector adapter if needed (Austria CEE 7/4 (German "Schuko")(Type F))
- Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working GRASS development environment if possible.
Broadcast & Video
During the event :)
Photos
Also during the event :)
FAQ
- How was it last time?
- Very nice, see GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2013!
- Is the GRASS Community Sprint just a coding event?
- It is mainly a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in the GRASS project and/or are committed to improving the GRASS project.
- On demand we can do some presentations of current working GRASS implementation and new upcoming features to spread the idea of Open Source GIS software
- Is the GRASS Community Sprint for developers only?
- No: anybody can help, with testing, checking out bugs and fixes, documentation and more.
- Where can I get help and more information about the community sprint?
- Contact Markus Neteler, Stephan Meissl
Press Release
(to be done)