GRASS GIS Community Sprint Prague 2019

Timing, Venue

December 2 (Mon) - 6 (Fri), 2019

Czech Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geomatics, Czech Republic

Location: Thákurova 7/2077, Prague (OSM Map)

Sponsors

Donation from OSGeo. Please check more info GRASS GIS Budget 2019.

We also welcome direct financial contributions to help reducing traveling 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 via our Paypal money pool

For any questions, please contact Martin Landa. 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.

Agenda - What we plan to do

New website

• work on https://github.com/osgeo/grass-website
• add Binder-based "try online"
• goal: publish at grass.osgeo.org

New releases

• 7.8.2 (reasoning: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/191)
• 7.6.1 (g.extension compatible with GitHub)

Completion of Subversion to Git migration

• migrate Trac tickets to GitHub
• discuss Trac wiki future
• export-subst, https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3972#comment:6 (https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/commit/69be6c5f9a8d794ecffb9b8072c6e932984d07e5)

Automated packaging and CI/CD

• reproducible workflow for build on Windows (core+addons), possibly in CI/CD
• build in Conda on Linux with a goal to publish recipe on conda-forge
• discuss PPAs, Flatpack, Snap, and AppImage
• update Travis-CI setup or discuss/add/migrate to different services

Community and Organization

• Discuss and potentially start project on OpenTeams
• Plan budget and promotion for 2020

Misc

• please can we merge https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/130
• √ update wxPython OSGeo4W package to 4.0.7, https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/615
• discuss https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup

Planned participation

For organizational reasons.

In person

Please add your name here:

No	Participant	Country	Arrival	Departure	Topics	T-Shirt	Notes
1	Martin Landa	Czech Republic	02/12	06/12	trac tickets -> github issues, website	L
2	Anna Petrasova	USA/Czech Republic	Dec 2nd	Dec 6th	Windows packaging, tickets	M
3	Vaclav Petras	USA/Czech Republic	Dec 2nd	Dec 6th	packaging, CI/CD, usage from Python, "try" links for website	M
4	Ondřej Pešek	Czech Republic	02/12	06/12	work on the PyWPS export from gmodeler, gmodeler-related tickets (#3923...), ANN	M
5	...	...	...	...	...	...

Accommodation

There are several Hotels etc. in walking distance.

• Masarykova Kolej Hotel
• Vienna House Diplomat Prague
• ...

Venue

Points of contact

• Martin Landa: landa.martin AT gmail DOT com

Address

Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Thákurova 7/2077, Prague (OSM Map)

Public transport

Public transportation works nicely in general.

Subway / Metro

• From Airport: take bus 119 to Nadrazi Veleslavin (end station), change to underground (green line) and go to Dejvicka station
• From (Main) Railway Station: take underground (red line) to Muzeum change to green line and go to Dejvicka station

Rooms & hours

B868

• Monday 2.12.: 13.30-18
• Tuesday 3.12.: 13-18
• Wednesday 4.12.: 09-13
• Thursday 5.12.: 09-18
• Friday 6.12.: 09-18

Tasks

Pre-event tasks

Completed tasks

• √ : Book room
• √ : Stickers and magnets ordered and arrived
• √ : Internet connection
• √ : Plan/order catering
• √ : Discuss swag (t-shirts ? mugs ?)
• √ : Consider whatsapp(or similar) channel for last minute communication
• √ : Consider side events:
  • Group picture ?
  • Fancy dinner ?

Via IRC chat

(IRC is a nice archaic chat system, see IRC)

No	Participant	Country	Note
@#	...

Via video-call

We can use Hangouts, Zoom, Jitsi or Skype... Plenty of options!

No	Participant	Country	Note
1	Veronica Andreo	Argentina
2	Luca Delucchi	Italy	Website improvements
...

Individual Preparation

• Bring your own computer
• Bring your power connector adapter if needed (photo: Czech Republic). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
• Install git, and the compiler tools, and come with a working GRASS development environment if possible.

Photos

• 

  Group photo

• 

  wxGUI startup screen discussion

• 

  Table, whiteboards, and stickers

Reports

See Talk:GRASS GIS Community Sprint Prague 2019

FAQ

• 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 Martin Landa landa.martin gmail.com