GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2012
The GRASS GIS team will organize a GRASS Developer and Power User Meeting, aka 'GRASS Community Sprint' from May 23 to May 28, 2012. The sprint is following the FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Central and East Europe), 21-23 May 2012, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Important dates:
- 21 (Monday) - 23 (Wednesday) May 2012: FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics conference
- 23 (Wednesday) - 28 (Monday) May 2012: GRASS GIS Community Sprint @ FCE CTU
Purpose
This second edition of the GRASS GIS community sprint 2012 is a great occasion for folks to support the development by actively contributing to the source code, manuals or likewise. The community sprint is a get-together for GRASS project members and supporters and related OSGeo projects to make decisions and tackle larger problems. For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project and the interfaces to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R statistics, Sextante, gvSIG, OGC Services (esp. WPS) and more. This includes developers, documenters, bug reporters, translators and others.
For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS and related projects. This includes developers, document writers, wish and bug reporters, translators etc.
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 travelling and accommodation expenses for GRASS developers with far arrival If you are interested to sponsor the GRASS Community Sprint, please read about
- sponsoring the GRASS project at http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php
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 first 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 in Prague. 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. Please see below for the more detailed agenda. 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.
Thanks to our sponsors
We are grateful for the support which we have received to organize this GRASS Community Sprint:
- remainder from the 2011 edition of the Community Sprint and small donations (via GFOSS.it, the Italian OSGeo chapter) - 1400 Euro
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) - 1000 Euro
- FOSSGIS e.V. - 1000 Euro
- Stefan Sylla, sylla-consult, Frankfurt, Germany - 500 Euro
Timing
When: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 (day of arrival) - Monday, May 28, 2012 (day of departure)
Of course you are invited to join or leave the community sprint whenever you want.
Duration:
- Wednesday is day of arrival
- First meeting in the evening (after the FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinfomatics conference) to define the agenda
- Thursday to Sunday
- Full days
- Monday is day of departure
- Probably hacking for people with a flight later in the evening
Venue
Department of Mapping and Cartography
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Room B367
Prague 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 to Prague, variable depending on where you come from
- Accommodation and meals (with the donated sponsorship money we will try to cover some expenses of the participants)
Please note: The currency in Czech Republic is crown (CZK, koruna, Kč). 100 Czech crowns are about 4 Euros (see current rates).
- Masarykova Kolej Hotel
- Hotel DAP
- Hotel Krystal
- Pension Hanspaulka
- Hotel Silenzio
- Student hostels (CTU)
- Special offer: sleeping for free in the kindergarten (30min by city urban mass transportation from the university campus, sleeping bag required, kitchen and WC available, no showers, in working days available only from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.), contact Martin Landa for details
- See also http://www.hotel.cz/praha-6/accommodation/
Please let us know your time of arrival and leaving, so we can book for the accommodations and organize the logistics.
Financial support: (partial) travel grants can be payed upon request thanks to our sponsors!
Weather and Common Item Prices
- In May the weather in Prague is usually quite warm (15 or more degrees by day)
- A espresso coffee is about 20 CZK (80 cents), a beer (half of liter) in a common pub is around 25 CZK (1 euro), can be more in special pubs. In Prague you can have a full meal (see Czech cuisine) for still 75 - 150 CZK (3 - 6 euros), but beware of tourist restaurants, the price can easily rise. It's quite easy to find in Prague also Italian or Chinese restaurants.
Agenda - What we plan to do
Note: The program is generally open for your ideas. Please write an email to the GRASS developer list to discuss your contribution.
@TODO
Timeline
Wednesday, 23 May
- 14:30: Kick-off in building B, room 367
Tuesday, 24 May
Friday, 25 May
Saturday, 26 May
Sunday, 27 May
Monday, 28 May
- Last meeting
- Farewell and have a good trip home
Topics
- Non-technical,
- Semi-technical, and
- Technical
Participation
We are planning for attendance of 20 people (i.e., hacking places) but of course you are welcome to join us and bring new ideas with you, as more places are available. Please add your name here or contact Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
In person
| No | Participant | Country | Arrival | Departure | Topic | T-Shirt | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Landa | Czech Republic | May 20 | May 28 | Toolbox concept, vector engine in GRASS 7, wxGUI, PostGIS Topology support | L | |
| 2 | Markus Neteler | Italy | May 20 | May 28 | GRASS on Android, QGIS-Sextante-GRASS interface, high performance computing, g.cloud, singing & beer in pub, Toolbox, ... | M + S | |
| 3 | Luca Delucchi | Italy | May 20 | May 26 | r.modis, r.li.setup gui, v.in.geopaparazzi (only if andrea antonello comes to Prague) | L | |
| 4 | Andrea Antonello | Italy | May 21/22 | May 25/26 | v.in.geopaparazzi, GRASS [Caesar model] input module with Silvia, singing at the pub with Luca Delucchi and Peter Loewe | L | |
| 5 | Silvia Franceschi | Italy | May 21/22 | May 25/26 | GRASS [Caesar model] input module | S | |
| 6 | Peter Loewe | Germany | May 20/21 | May 25/26 | collecting beer-money while Luca and Andrea sing in pubs ; i.atcorr debugging ; g.cloud ? ; r.tsunami ? ; Tutorial/Documentation on g.infer | S | |
| 7 | Anna Kratochvilova | Czech Republic | May 20 | May 28 | imagery, wxGUI | S | |
| 8 | Vaclav Petras | Czech Republic | May 20 | May 28 | imagery, wxGUI, Toolbox concept ? | M | |
| 9 | Helena Mitasova | USA | May 21 | May 25/26 | toolbox concept, student sandbox, wxnviz z-scale, inventory of mobile and touch implementations, GRASS on-line and cloud | ||
| 10 | Sören Gebbert | Germany | May 20 | May 27 | Temporal GIS framework demo and discussion, Temporal GIS wxGUI and WPS integration, massive parallel computation of spatio-temporal datasets, Cloud computing | L | |
| 11 | Štěpán Turek | Czech Republic | May 20 | May 28 | v.net.* front end, WMS | L | |
| 12 | Radim Blažek | Czech Republic | May 24/25 | May 24/25 | QGIS interface | - | |
| 13 | Pietro Zambelli | Italy | May 23/24 | May 28/29 | GSoC2012: High level map interaction | L | |
| 14 | Markus Metz | Italy | May 23 | May 26 | GRASS 7 everything | ||
| 15 | Nikos Alexandris | Greece | May 24 | May 27/28 | (wannabe) bughunter, assist documentation and tutorials | ||
| 16 | Milena Nowotarska | Poland | May 23 | May 27 | translation, wxGUI | S |
Via IRC chat
- #grass on Freenode
For details, see IRC
Collaborative document scratching
- EtherPad: http://etherpad.osuosl.org
Individual Preparation
- Bring your own computer
- Bring power connector adapter if needed (Czech Republic: 230V, 50Hz, Type C Europlugs are common and also Type E)
- Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working GRASS development environment if possible.
Broadcast & Video
During the event :)
Photos
Also during the event :)
FAQ
- How was it last year?
- Very nice, see GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2011!
- 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 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>