GRASS Community

• Promoting GRASS GIS

• Collection of material to promote the GRASS project: http://grass.itc.it and [http://grass.itc.it/mirrors.php mirrors sites)
• Graphics, screenshots or images that represent the project (add URLs and indicate license) http://grass.itc.it/grass61/screenshots/index.php (Creative Commons)
• Description of the project (100-150 words)

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• Powerful raster analysis
• 2D/3D Vector engine with SQL based DBMS support
• Vector network analysis
• Voxel management
• Visualization of 2D, 3D maps and volumes
• works on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, MS-Windows and other POSIX compliant platforms

• Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
  • The new Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo.org) was established in Chicago. GRASS was proposed as founding project.
  • Potential tasks and responsibilities (earlier proposal)
  • GRASS Project Steering Commitee for the OSGeo Foundation
  • GRASS Project Incubation at the OSGeo Foundation

• IRC communication
  • How to participate in IRC communication (#grass, #osgeo, #gdal, #qgis, #mapserver and other channels)

• Open Source Geospatial Communities Conference
  • Open Source Geospatial Communities Conference 12-15 September 2006 in Lausanne.
  • GRASS related workshops and presentations

• User Map
  • GRASS User Map
  • Description of new GRASS UserMap