GRASS GIS Raleigh meetups 2016

A group of people contributing or interested in contributing to GRASS GIS met at the end of 2015 in Raleigh and decided to meet regularly in the following months. This is a page to organize meetings and record what was done or discussed during them

Contact person: Vaclav Petras (Vashek, wenzeslaus gmail com)

January 30

• date: January 30 (moved from January 23 because of the weather)
• time: 1:00pm - 6:30pm (feel free to come and leave anytime)
• place: Hunt (see below)
• room: 3208 (Large Group Study Room; close to the Game Lab and the wide yellow stairs; note that the elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the stairs if you can)
• food: your own supplies, Common Grounds Café at Hunt (closes at 5pm), On The Oval (closes at 8pm)
• participants:
  • Vaclav Petras
  • Anna Petrasova
  • Doug Newcomb
  • Brendan Harmon
  • Makiko Shukunobe
  • and 2 others
• some of the topics:
  • starting with Python API and running scripts in command line on Linux
  • Compiling on MacOSX (ended up using brew because of problems with separately installed GDAL)
  • debugging missing APPDATA on MS Windows, improved in r67709
  • discussing some GRASS concepts and more

Location

• Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University
• James B. Hunt Jr. Library, 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606 (map)
  • Floor plan (note that building is vertically split into two sections (library and another partially private space) and that the floor with the main desk and access to Oval is 2nd floor)
  • Info about Group Study Rooms - Large
• free parking on Saturdays: Oval West Parking Deck, Partners Way (map)