GRASS GIS Ispra meetups 2016

A group of people contributing or interested in contributing to GRASS GIS is planning to meet in the coming days in Ispra (VA), Italy, in the Clubhouse of the Joint Research Centre in working days outside working hours and / or during weekend in a place to be decided. If you aren't a contributor but still are interested, please have a look at the documentation for first time users and come to discover, we will introduce you to GRASS GIS. If you are interested, please contact us.

Moreover, there is a mailing list based in JRC but not only, dedicated to open source geospatial software and local initiatives, you are invited to subscribe to keep yourself up-to-date about local activities related to FOSS. Check also our wiki.

Contact person: Margherita Di Leo (diregola gmail com)

18 Oct 2016

Location: Clubhouse of the Joint Research Centre, room CH-Rose Auditorium.

Time: h 5:30 PM onward - Feel free to join / leave at any time

Arrangements: Bring your laptop, some power strips (ciabatta) if you have, prepare a 5 minutes presentation of your work and what you use / would like to use GRASS for, your experience, your research questions etc..

Proposed agenda

• How to contribute to the GRASS GIS project.
• R scripting vs GRASS + Python: some benchmarks.
• ..
• Social dinner w/ beer at clubhouse.

Participants

• Margherita Di Leo
• Yann Chemin
• Philipp Schaegner

Work done and topics touched

• Testing and closing ticket #2504
• Improved documentation r69701
• Using GRASS through QGIS
• Zonal statistics: comparison between R and GRASS.
• Looping GRASS commands in bash

27 Sep 2016

Location: Clubhouse of the Joint Research Centre, room CH-Rose Auditorium.

Time: h 5:00 PM onward

Arrangements: Bring your laptop, some power strips (ciabatta) if you have, prepare a 5 minutes presentation of your work and what you use / would like to use GRASS for, your experience, your research questions etc..

GRASS GIS Meetup at Clubhouse, Ispra(VA), Italy, on 27 Sep 2016

Participants

• Margherita Di Leo
• Yann Chemin
• Thomas Huld
• Chiara Dorati
• Daniele Borio
• Ciro Gioia
• Ana Gracia
• Ruben Urraca
• Daniele de Rigo
• Philipp Schaegner
• Roxanne Leberger
• Jorge Lopez-Perez
• Fabio Fussi

Topics touched

• GRASS intro Hi-res version
• Case studies of GRASS used in research
  • Forest tree species distribution
  • Solar radiation
  • ..
• GRASS installation on MS Windows and Ubuntu
• Sample data download
• Creating a new location
• EPSG codes
• Getting familiar with the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Importing data
• Intro to the Command Line Interface (CLI)
• GRASS and Python
• Automating your workflow using bash scripting
• Getting the most updated GRASS version:
  • Downloading the source code via svn (on Ubuntu)
  • Compiling GRASS on Ubuntu
  • Nightly builds for MS Windows