Talk:GRASS Community Meeting Prague 2024

Quick links: Meeting page | Reports | Sponsors

Organizing Team

• Initial planning: Vaclav Petras, Veronica Andreo, Markus Neteler, Anna Petrasova, Martin Landa, Helmut Kudrnovsky, Helena Mitasova
• Budget: Vaclav Petras, Anna Petrasova, Markus Neteler, Veronica Andreo, Helena Mitasova
• Raising support: Vaclav Petras, Veronica Andreo, Markus Neteler, Helmut Kudrnovsky, Anna Petrasova
• Reimbursements: Vaclav Petras
• Venue: Vaclav Petras
• Food coordination: Anna Petrasova, Martin Landa, Caitlin Haedrich, Vaclav Petras, Ondrej Pesek, Veronica Andreo
• Agenda: Veronica Andreo, Anna Petrasova
• Wiki page: Vaclav Petras, Veronica Andreo, Martin Landa
• Virtual participant support: Veronica Andreo
• T-shirts, hoodies, stickers: Vaclav Petras, Veronica Andreo
• Promotion, invitations, and social media: Caitlin Haedrich, Veronica Andreo, Vaclav Petras
• Photography: Caitlin Haedrich, Helmut Kudrnovsky

Tasks for participants

• Create section for you in the Reports section.
• List all the things you are working on in the section. Update the list each day. Include things you work on with other people.
• Link the GRASS Community Meeting Prague 2023 project on GitHub to each PR or issue you are working on or plan to be working on.
• If you are or will be working on an issue or on a PR which is not originally submitted by you, assign yourself to the issue or PR. (You can unassign yourself later if you change your mind.)

Reports

Per-person reports from the meeting (one === Name === section per participant.)

Floris Vanderhaeghe

• Make maintenance pull requests PR #90 and PR #91 to support future contributors of the R package rgrass.
• Test the standalone GDAL-GRASS driver in R and create issues #46, #47 and #48 in its code repository.
• Implement the GDAL-GRASS driver in the read_RAST() and read_VECT() functions of R package rgrass, as well as some associated enhancements. See PR #93.
• Make an issue, with the help of Helmut Kudrnovsky and Veronica Andreo, about launching R in the OSGeo4W shell independently of GRASS GIS.
• Help sorting out a few issues in the repository of R package rgrass.
• Point at the PROJJSON specification in support of GRASS GIS issue #3020.
• Participate in the GRASS GIS roadmap discussion on Saturday.

Markus Neteler

• cleanup labels in GitHub repo
• replace --tmp-location with --tmp-project (pull requests PR #3825, PR #3822)
• docker: remove "grass-session" pip approach, replace to new build-in Python API (pull request PR #3819)
• Participated in the PSC meeting to define elections date and other elections related issues. See PSC_Meeting_2024-06-14.
• Discussion about our Dockerfiles
• Simplified examples for working with GRASS 8.4+ in Python (update Stackexchange posts)
• Participated of the roadmap discussion session
• cleanup of many pull request titles to be recognized by https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/main/utils/release.yml
• Complete OpenSSF Best Practices badge questionnaire to 100%: https://www.bestpractices.dev/en/projects/2470
• backport plenty of pull requests to GRASS GIS 8.4 release branch
• lib/gis: modernize getl2() https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/3850
• social media outreach: suggest use of Publer.io to easier feed our channels (discuss with Vero and Caitlin)

Veronica Andreo

• Discuss tutorial topics with Alen
• Reviewed PRs: i.eodag, a couple related to the temporal framework, tutorial on GRASS usage within Jupyter on Windows, among others.
• Participated in the PSC meeting to define elections date and other elections related issues. See PSC_Meeting_2024-06-14.
• Compiled the raw list of contributors since Dec 2020, to create the list of voters, as discussed in PSC meeting.
• Set up a swag shop in RedBubble and added designs with color and white logos. Yet not published as payment details need to be configured with OSGeo treasurer.
• Participated of the roadmap discussion session - Roadmap will be published in the website.
• Participated of the documentation discussion session.

Alen Mangafić

• Discuss tutorial with Veronica and Vaclav.
• Setting up the environment for the tutorial with Ondřej and Corey, resulting in a process to build a Docker container with the main branch and it's kernel connection to Jupyter Lab.
• Writing a Jupyter Lab framework which works. Helped by Vaclav with locating the "GISENV" location bug.
• Data preparation: correction the point clouds to match correct Global Encoding value of a LAS 1.4 file with PDRF 6 - 10 is 17 (16 + 1); CRS definition.
• Testing and drafting the workflow in GUI.
• Found a and reported a bug about how r.in.pdal handles the number of returns (#3827).

Corey White

• Discussed and reviewed PRs for Google Summer of Code json and jupyter notebook projects.
• Helped setting up Docker environment for GRASS GIS and Jupyter Lab.
• Working on t.stac.* addon. (PR https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-addons/pull/802)
• Opened PR for new point pattern analysis tool v.paa (https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/3826)

Luís de Sousa

• Debugging issue #2187
• Unit tests for v.out.ogr (PR #3848)

Anna Petrasova

• Participated in the PSC meeting to define elections date and other elections related issues. See PSC_Meeting_2024-06-14.
• Discussed and reviewed PR for Google Summer of Code jupyter notebook projects.
• Reviewing v.surf.rst PR (Cross-validation OpenMP support, PR #3590)
• Tasked Caitlin to show layer controller in grass.jupyter.InteractiveMap by default, defined implementation
• Solving conflict and reviewing PR #2481

Chung-Yuan Liang

• Refactored r.texture and updated tests (PR #3785, #3786).
• Parallelized r.texture and provided benchmarks.
• Revised v.surf.rst PR (Cross-validation OpenMP support, PR #3590).
• Enabled Python benchmark module to plot speedup or efficiency.

Caitlin Haedrich

• Discussed GRASS, Jupyter and Windows with Heli
• Wrote tutorial for using OSGeo4W to set up Jupyter Lab in Notebooks ([PR](https://github.com/ncsu-geoforall-lab/tutorials/pull/3))
• Set up Publer account for social media management
• Took pictures and posted 2x daily to social media
• Reviewed all GRASS GIS online profiled and compiled list that need updating (report in progress)

Edouard Choinière

• Discussion with Vaclav Petras on current state of python packaging, build, and testing framework and coverage, Windows porting improvements, and future plans. Planning for the week.
• Help Markus debugging Dockerfile builds. Reviewed docker-related PRs, improved docker builds, upgrade base images. (PRs: #3802, #3807, #3810, #3828, #3819, #3830, #3797, #3787, #3773, #3822, #3728)
• Helped multiple times Alen Mangafić with usage and building custom Docker images with different versions of PDAL.
• Designing and drafting the integration of docker build caching to improve build times whilst keeping risk of using cached old dependencies. #3821