GRASS Community Sprint Como 2015
Following the FOSS4G EU 2015 , 14-17 July 2014, Como, Italy, the GRASS GIS project will hold a GRASS Developer and Power User Meeting, aka 'GRASS Community Sprint' from July 19 to July 22, 2015 (dates are not official yet, just proposed).
Important dates:
- 14 (Tuesday) - 17 (Friday) July 2015: FOSS4G EU 2015 conference
- 18 (Saturday) July 2015: FOSS4G EU 2015 code sprint and first day of GRASS Community Sprint
- 19 (Sunday) - 22 (Wednesday) July 2015 (TBD): GRASS Community Sprint
Purpose
Get together GRASS project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems.
For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project. This includes developers, documenters, bug reporters, translators etc.
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 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:
- OSGeo (1500 Euro)
- Johannes Brauner
Venue
Saturday 18 July we will join the FOSS4G EU code sprint at LAPS room of Como Campus (Valleggio building, 1st floor)
Accommodation and Costs
Participants should plan for the following costs:
- Travel to Como
- Accommodation and meals
Financial support (partial) thanks to our sponsors:
- meals
- travel grants can be payed upon request
We are looking to rent a big house (about 8/9 places) for reduce costs, if you are interested please write to GRASS developer list
Weather
- In July the weather in Como is usually hot (between 20 and 30 degree)
Agenda - What we plan to do
Note: The program is generally open for your ideas. Please edit this wiki page!
Topics:
- GRASS-QGIS interfaces: what's needed for a better GRASS GIS 7 integration
- Interfaces to other OSGeo projects as being present in the code sprint room
- g.extension: add gitlab+github support (maybe just a few lines in Python?)
- ...
Saturday, 18 July
OSGeo code sprint of 1 day: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-Europe_2015_Code_Sprint
- r.out.gdal issue: (gdal-dev) Setting NODATA to -nan (G7)
- Create a new Transifex translation community: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/grass-gis-7/ (using the command line tools at http://docs.transifex.com/client/)
Sunday, 19 July
Venue: TBD
Topics:
- Discuss where to host GRASS GIS Web site due to ever-lasting OSGeo server hardware issues
- Discuss future of CMS (keep current CMSMS or select a different platform)
- Discuss PSC structure (how to elect new members)
- Fix bugs in GRASS GIS 7
- Manual pages: Add more examples
Monday, 20 July
Venue: V08 room of Como Campus (Valleggio - V building, ground floor)
Topics:
- How to write tests for automated testing and how to use it
- Improvements of automated testing and its future directions
- Discuss client-server, cloud and HPC: do we need something beyond ssh -X and WPS?
- Fix bugs in GRASS GIS 7
- Manual pages: Add more examples (including images)
- test trac #2349: CELL raster format: make ZLIB level 3 standard compression instead of RLE (test: compress NULL file, i.e., r.null now has a -z flag to re-create the null file using the current compression setting (i.e. compress/decompress). Close ticket if all works.
)
- ...
Tuesday, 21 July
Venue: V08 room of Como Campus (Valleggio - V building, ground floor)
Topics:
- Fix bugs in GRASS GIS 7
- Check GSoC 2015 efforts
- Future of r.in.proj and v.in.proj, move them to core, implement same for lidar modules
- Improve handling of lidar data; consider v.external for LAS (interpolation from LAS), PDAL as dependency
- Solve trac #2472 and trac #2651 (number of vector points seems to be limited to 32 bit integer)
- ...
Wednesday, 22 July
Venue: V08 room of Como Campus (Valleggio - V building, ground floor)
Topics:
- Fix bugs in GRASS GIS 7
- ...
Participation
In person
Please add your name here or contact Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail com>:
No | Participant | Country | Arrival | Departure | Topic | T-Shirt | Share big house (about 300€ person) | Notes |
1 | Luca Delucchi | Italy | July 13th | We 22/Th 23 | g.gui.tplot | L | yes | |
2 | Martin Landa | Czech Republic | July 13th | We 22 | various | L | yes | |
3 | Margherita Di Leo | Italy | July 13th | We 22 | various | M | yes (+1) | |
4 | Anna Petrasova | USA | July 13th | We 22 | various | S | yes | |
5 | Vaclav Petras | USA | July 13th | We 22 | various | S | yes | |
6 | Markus Neteler | Italy | July 13th | Tu 21 | various | M | let's see | |
7 | Annalisa Minelli | France | July 14th | We 22 | Multi Agent Systems integration | S | no | |
8 | Ivan Minčík | Slovakia | July 14th | We 22 | Travis CI integration, Debian-Ubuntu packaging | L | yes | thank you |
9 | you | ... | ... | ... | topic | size | yes/no |
Via IRC chat
Individual Preparation
- Bring your own computer
- Bring your power connector adapter if needed (Italy)
- Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working GRASS development environment if possible.
Photos
We have to remember to take at least one group photo! :-)
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 Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail com>