GRASS Community Meeting Prague 2024

GRASS GIS Community Meeting for contributors and developers will be happening June 13/14 to June 18/19, 2024 in Prague, Czechia.

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  Prague 2023 Group Photo

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  A full work table during the 3rd day

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  Lots of discussion and collaboration

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  GRASS GIS development brings smiles

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  Afternoon working and collaborating

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  The work and discussion continues over dinner

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  View at Alšova vyhlídka while taking a walk together

Purpose

GRASS GIS Community Meeting is a great occasion for folks to support the development by actively contributing to the project by various activities including but not limited to source code updates, documentation (manuals, wiki, tutorials), translations, website improvements or likewise. The community meeting is also a get-together where supporters, contributors, power users and developers make decisions and tackle larger problems related to the project, discuss and collaboratively resolve bugs, plan the direction for the project and work on new features. We welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project and the interfaces to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R, OGC Services and others.

In this meeting, building on momentum from the 40th birthday meeting, we will continue the revisions of the maintenance processes and infrastructure - a process which highly benefits from the current maintainers being in one place (and time zone). Other topics which require highly synchronous collaboration will be included such as Markdown documentation and CMake build transitions. Other contributors are expected to enhance the collection of processing tools and their documentation. A press release gives an overview of last year's event.

Note that while we have our general plan, we can't accept any earmarked donations, i.e., we can't make any promises for a specific work to be done. We do require participants to work on GRASS GIS or connections to other projects. However, we leave them the freedom to work on what they think is the best contribution to the project at that time given their skills and time available.

For the detailed agenda and individual's plans, see below.

Sponsors

We welcome financial contributions to support the meeting and we are looking for sponsors to cover costs such as meals or to help reducing travel and accommodation expenses for GRASS developers who volunteer their time. If you are interested in sponsoring the GRASS Community Meeting, please see our

OpenCollective

Any surplus at the end of the event will used for future activities of the GRASS GIS project such as the successful student mini grant program.

This GRASS Community Meeting is a great occasion for you to support the development of GRASS. With your contribution you'll enable more developers to meet. Community meetings are important opportunities for developers to discuss, fix bugs, plan the direction for the project and work on new features. The developers and other contributors or their employers are donating their valuable time, so it would be great if 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 meeting will be directly contributed back into the GRASS project to the benefit of everyone who uses it.

Timing

When: June 13/14-18/19, 2024

You are invited to join or leave the meeting whenever you want.

Venue

Prague, the capital of Czechia (Czech Republic) has an international airport and is also reachable by train, bus or car.

Accommodation and Costs

Participants should plan for the following costs:

• The participation is free of charge
• Travel
• Lodging

Please note: The currency in Czech Republic is Czech crown (CZK, koruna, Kč). 100 Czech crowns are about 4 Euros (see current rates).