Documentation and Education Working Group

Documentation and education working group is established to coordinate the development of documentation and education materials to meet the needs of a wide range of GRASS users.

Scope

• coordinate development of documentation and education materials
• coordinate development of sample datasets and localized datasets
• decide on best formats and place for documentation, tutorials
• develop onboarding materials for contributors of documentation and education materials

Members

Let us know who you are and what are your interests and topics you want to discuss and develop as part of this group.

Helena Mitasova (working group coordinator)

Professor at North Carolina State University

Interested in wiki pages cleanup, manual pages updates, integration of GRASS in courses, localized data sets

Anna Petrasova

Researcher, educator and software developer at North Carolina State University

Topics of interest include developing tutorials and workshops in Jupyter Notebooks, onboarding materials

Veronica Andreo

Researcher and lecturer at Gulich Institute, Argentina, temporarily at North Carolina State University

Working on developing tutorials, blogs and guidelines on GRASS GIS use and contribution

Eric Patton

Florian Betz

Hernán De Angelis

Micha Silver

Titus Kiprutto

Paulo van Breugel

Brendan Harmon

Amatulli

Research scientist at School of the Environment, Yale University. Educator at Spatial Ecology

Topics of interest include developing tutorials and workshops in GRASS

Michael Barton

Professor in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change, and School of Complex Adaptive Systems at Arizona State University.

I am a complex systems scientist who combines anthropology, archaeology, earth science, and information technologies to study long-term dynamics and interactions of people and landscapes in the Anthropocene. I also maintain the GRASS for Mac site. Topics of interest include using open source software in the classroom, improving documentation pages, developing localized data sets for learning GRASS, using GRASS geospatial tools in other platforms.

Massimo Di Stefano

Carlos Grohmann

To be added to this working group, please contact the group coordinator.

Communication Channels

• grass-user and grass-dev mailing lists
• OSGeo/grass GitHub issues and pull requests and GitHub project
• grassgis/documentation gitter room