GRASS Community Sprint Bonn 2016

During the FOSS4G 2016 , 21-28 August 2016, Bonn, Germany, the GRASS GIS project will join the code sprint

Important dates:

• CodeSprint I: Sun 21.08.2016 12:00 - Tue 23.08.2016 (open end)
• FOSS4G 2016 Schedule
• CodeSprint II: Sat 27.08.2016 - Sun 28.08.2016 12:00 a.m

Purpose

Get together of GRASS GIS project members to take decisions and tackle small and larger problems.

For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project. This includes developers, documenters, bug reporters, translators, and users!

Sponsors

If you are interested to sponsor the GRASS Community Sprint, please read about
    sponsoring the GRASS project at http://grass.osgeo.org/donations/
and, if needed, contact Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to the GRASS GIS project.

The GRASS Community Sprint is a great occasion for you to support the development of GRASS. With your contribution you'll enable more developers to meet in Prague. 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.

Venue

• Bonn, Germany: http://www.basecamp-bonn.de

Accommodation and Costs

• to be defined

Weather

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn#Climate

Agenda - What we plan to do

Note: The program is generally open for your ideas. Please edit this wiki page!

Web site

• Migrate the good old CMSMS to Wordpress

Promo

• Finalize the new GRASS GIS flyer prepared by Vincent Bain
  • needed: catchy time series screenshot

New Releases

Minor releases:

• Release GRASS GIS 6.4.6:
  • Coordination is done here: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass6Planning
  • Changes are tracked at: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.6-News
• Release GRASS GIS 7.0.5:
  • Coordination is done here: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.0.5tobebackported
  • Changes are tracked at: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.0.5-News

Major release:

• Release GRASS GIS 7.2.0:
  • Coordination is done here: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.2.0
  • Changes are tracked at: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.2.0-News

Documentation and translation

• Add examples to manual pages
• Translation of messages
• Translation of Wiki pages

Bug squashing

• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/report/19
• trac #2864: Add link to source code in the documentation pages (almost done, let's finish it!)

Improvements

• improve r.modis addons
• integrate Google Summer of Code projects (where adequate)
• continue working on OBIA toolchain:
  • Testing of mean shift in i.segment
  • Finalization of r.object.geometry and its integration into i.segment.uspo

Better integration of git into development

• since github/gitlab/bitbucket etc are a valuable and recognized source of new source code, we should be able to receive such contributions easily

... YOUR IDEA HERE ...

Participation

For organizational reasons, please additionally register at: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Code_Sprint

In person

Please add your name here or contact Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail com>:

No	Participant	Country	Arrival	Departure	Topic	T-Shirt	Notes
1	Luca Delucchi	Italy	August 21	August 28		L
2	Martin Landa	Czech Republic	August 21	August 28		L
3	Markus Neteler	Italy	August 21	August 28	Releases, project coordination, bug hunting, getting more ppl involved	M
4	Nikos Alexandris	Switzerland	August 21	August 28		S or M
5	Veronica Andreo	Argentina	August 26	August 28		S
6	Moritz Lennert	Belgium	August 21	August 27		M
7	Stefan Blumentrath	Norway	August 26	August 28		L

Via IRC chat

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

No	Participant	Country
1	Yann Chemin	France

Individual Preparation

• Bring your own computer
• Bring your power connector adapter if needed (Germany)
• Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working GRASS development environment if possible.

Photos

We have to remember to take at least one group photo! :-)

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 Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail com>