Team

The GRASS GIS project is an international team effort with scientists and developers participating from various fields. Below is a list of the current team.

All general queries concerning GRASS should be addressed to the respective GRASS mailing lists. If you miss yourself or somebody else on the lists below, please feel free to edit this Wiki page or send mail to the GRASS developers mailing list.

Current contributors to the development of the GRASS code

In alphabetical order; see for example here for contribution statistics.

	Anna Kratochvílová: GRASS 7 wxGUI development, Prague, CZ, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Benjamin Ducke: extension manager, spatial statistics, archaeological applications, predictive modelling Location: Berlin, Germany, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Glynn Clements: core development, UK, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Hamish Bowman: Development of display, PostScript, raster, and GPS modules as well as general sanitation of the code, help, and web pages. Location: Department of Marine Science, University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand mail: hamish_b AT yahoo com http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/grassfiles
	Helena Mitasova: surface and volume modeling and analysis (RST modules), topographic analysis, hydrologic and erosion modelling, assistance with visualization, working with students on new module development, testing, and bug fixing Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, mail: GRASS developers mailing list http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/
	Helmut Kudrnovsky: winGRASS packaging,german translation, Austria, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Huidae Cho: Hydrologic modeling (TOPMODEL modules), DXF modules, FreeType support, Korean translation. Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA mail: grass4u AT gmail com, IRC Nick: grass4u https://idea.isnew.info
	Luca Delucchi: Python GRASS development (GUI and Modules), Documentation, Italian Translation, Location: Trento (Italy), mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Maris Nartiss: Tcl/TK GUI development, Latvia, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Markus Metz: GRASS 7 development, massive data processing, vector library, Italy + Germany, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Markus Neteler: various contributions, coordination, main Web site and mailing lists maintenance, Location: Bonn, Germany, mail: GRASS developers mailing list, IRC Nick: markusN http://www.grassbook.org/neteler/
	Martin Landa: various contributions, vector engine improvements, wxGUI, Location: Prague, Czech Republic Mail: landa.martin AT gmail.com Homepage: http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
	Michael Barton : GRASS native GUI development, Mac binaries, Location: Tempe, Arizona, USA mail: GRASS developers mailing list http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/
	Moritz Lennert: display tools, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Nikos Alexandris: tester, contributed add-ons, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Pietro Zambelli: GRASS7 Python API (mainly pygrass), Location: Europe, mail: GRASS developers mailing list, link:
	Soeren Gebbert: improvements of 3D functionality mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Stefan Blumentrath: GRASS Python development, Oslo, NO, mail: GRASS developers mailing listNINA Oslo
	Stepan Turek: GRASS 7 wxGUI development, Prague, CZ, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Vaclav Petras: GRASS 7 wxGUI development, Prague, CZ, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	William Kyngesburye: Mac OS X packaging, USA, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Yann Chemin: image processing, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	your name: what-you-do, Location: xyz, mail: GRASS developers mailing list, link:

Former or currently inactive developers

(in alphabetical order)

	Bob Covill Role: visualization, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Brad Douglas Role: bug fixing, code portability, imagery modules Location: Fremont, California, USA, IRC Nick: bdouglas, mail: rez AT touchofmadness com
	Cedric Shock Role: user interface enhancements, debugging Location: Eugene, Oregon, USA, mail: GRASS developers mailing list, http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/
	Dave Sampson Role: tutorials, data sets & public data licensing, GRASS map gallery, Ottawa Chapter of OSGeo, Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, mail: samper.d at gmail dot com http://davidsampson.ca
	Jachym Cepicky Role: bug fixing, support of 3D vectors, tester and translator, UI developer, Czech Republic, mail: jachym.cepicky AT gmail.com http://les-ejk.cz/
	Jaroslav Hofierka Role: development of modules for solar irradiation, flow routing, surface and volume modelling and analysis (RST modules), hydrologic and erosion modelling, assistance with visualization Location: Presov, Slovakia, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Maciej Sieczka Role: power user, testing Location: Wroclaw, Poland, mail: msieczka AT sieczka.org http://www.sieczka.org
	Marco Pasetti Role: Microsoft Windows native binary port of GRASS Location: Brescia, Italy, mail: GRASS developers mailing list, link: WinGRASS Project Homepage
	Paul Kelly Role: Proj integration, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Radim Blazek Role: DBMI, vector engine core developer, Location: Trento, Italy till 2006, mail: GRASS developers mailing list
	Scott Mitchell Role: tutorial and documentation development, web site maintenance, Ottawa User's Group, OSGeo Journal News and Events Editor Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, mail: GRASS web site maintenance mailing list http://www.carleton.ca/~smitch

The following institutions are currently supporting the GRASS-Project

Please see our GRASS sponsoring page.

And a thank-you to:

• the many people who have contributed in the past
• the various users who have contributed bug reports and tested unstable GRASS versions;
• all the sites (and the people behind them) that provide mirrors for the GRASS web pages.