GRASS GIS Community Sprint Autumn 2017

GRASS people, let's meet! Because until the GRASS Community Sprint in March 2018 there's still a looong way to go and there are topics that have been on the agenda for quite some time already... but especially because it is always so nice and fun to meet :D

Important dates:

• Fri, 10 Nov 2017, 12:00 - Mon 13 Nov 2017 (open end)

Purpose and Agenda

Discuss and tackle topics such as:

• Specs for GRASS GIS 8
  • please edit here: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8Planning
• What's missing for the 7.4.0 release
  • See https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.4.0
• Set up new website (asap) with responsive design
  • Bootstrap?
    • http://www.keycloak.org/
    • https://getgrav.org/
  • Wordpress?
    • like https://osgeo.nl/ or the new OSGeo site?
• Development:
  • Migration to git
  • Include/invite more core developers
  • have more grass-dev meetings
• Funding:
  • define concrete goals to be funded
  • discuss measures and overall system
  • rewrite list of sponsors
• GSoC:
  • Review and (possible) integration of GSoC 2017 work
• Outreach:
  • offer more GRASS GIS courses, like on osgeo-nl
  • more online material, use Sphinx
  • generate tons of 1min videos
  • Initiatives: one new user a day
  • launch a lime survey to know who uses GRASS GIS
  • convert manual to Sphinx
  • Docker image with tests & benchmarks
• GRASS GIS startup
  • discuss other possibilities for GRASS GIS startup

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. 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. 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

• Enschede, Vero's home

Accommodation and Costs

• Enschede, Vero's home - self-funded so far (HEY, consider to donate!)

Planned participation

In person

Please add your name here:

No	Participant	Country	Arrival	Departure	Topic	T-Shirt	Notes
1	Veronica Andreo	Netherlands	Fri 10	Mon 13	Doc, testing, GCI	S
2	Markus Neteler	Germany	Sat 11th	Sun 12th	See agenda :)	M	Will be travelling back from SFCon Bolzano, hence arriving on Sat
3	Markus Metz	Germany	Fri 10	Mon 13	GRASS 7.4, 8	M
4	Moritz Lennert	Belgium	Fri 10	Sun 12	GRASS 7.4, 8, Web site, Docs/Tutorials	M	Will have to take a train at around 18:00 on Sunday night
5	Nikos Alexandris	Italy	Fri 10	Mon 13	Allarounder, as usual + Checking old posts of mine in mailing lists and file tickets where applicable + Implementing parts of ESTIMAP as GRASS-GIS addon	M
6

Via IRC chat

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

No	Participant	Country
1	Yann Chemin	France
2	Helmut Kudrnovsky	Austria
3

Individual Preparation

• Bring your own computer
• Bring your power connector adapter if needed. See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
• Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working GRASS development environment if possible.

Photos

Remember to take at least one group photo! :-)

Reports

See Talk:GRASS_GIS_Community_Sprint_Autumn_2017

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 Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail com>