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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://foss4g-cee.org/">FOSS4G-CEE</a> & <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Geoinformatics_FCE_CTU_2012">Geoinformatics</a> (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Central and East Europe), 21-23 May 2012, Czech Technical University in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague">Prague</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic">Czech Republic</a>.
Important dates:
- 21 (Monday) - 23 (Wednesday) May 2012: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://foss4g-cee.org/">FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics conference</a>
- 23 (Wednesday) - 28 (Monday) May 2012: GRASS GIS Community Sprint @ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fsv.cvut.cz/">FCE CTU</a>
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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.osgeo.org/">OSGeo</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/QGIS_GRASS_Cookbook" title="QGIS GRASS Cookbook">QGIS</a>, <a href="/wiki/GDAL" title="GDAL">RTENOTITLE</a>, <a href="/wiki/PostGIS" title="PostGIS">RTENOTITLE</a>, <a href="/wiki/R_statistics" title="R statistics">RTENOTITLE</a>, <a href="/wiki/GRASS_and_Sextante" title="GRASS and Sextante">Sextante, gvSIG</a>, OGC Services (esp. <a href="/wiki/WPS" title="WPS">RTENOTITLE</a>) 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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php">http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php</a> </dd> </dd> </dd>
and, if needed, contact <a href="/wiki/User:Neteler" title="User:Neteler">Markus Neteler</a> <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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gfoss.it/">GFOSS.it</a>, the Italian OSGeo chapter) - 1400 Euro
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.osgeo.org/">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a> (OSGeo) - 1000 Euro
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fossgis.de/">FOSSGIS e.V.</a> - 1000 Euro
- Stefan Sylla, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sylla-consult.de/en/">sylla-consult</a>, 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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://foss4g-cee.org/">FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinfomatics conference</a>) 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
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fsv.cvut.cz">Faculty of Civil Engineering</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cvut.cz">Czech Technical University in Prague</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic">Czech Republic</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Room_B367">Room B367</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Where_you_can_find_us">Location & Transportations</a>
Prague has an international <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prg.aero/en/">airport</a> 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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_crown">crown</a> (CZK, koruna, Kč). 100 Czech crowns are about 4 Euros (see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnb.cz/en/financial_markets/foreign_exchange_market/exchange_rate_fixing/daily.jsp">current rates</a>).
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Accommodation_in_Prague">Accommodation in Prague</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Accommodation_in_Prague#Masarykova_Kolej_Hotel">Masarykova Kolej Hotel</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Accommodation_in_Prague#Hotel_DAP">Hotel DAP</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Accommodation_in_Prague#Hotel_Krystal">Hotel Krystal</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Accommodation_in_Prague#Pension_Hanspaulka">Pension Hanspaulka</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Accommodation_in_Prague#Hotel_Silenzio">Hotel Silenzio</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Accommodation_in_Prague#Student_hostels_.28CTU.29">Student hostels (CTU)</a>
- 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 <a href="/wiki/User:Landa" title="User:Landa">Martin Landa</a> for details
- See also http://www.hotel.cz/praha-6/accommodation/
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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 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prague-spot.com/climate">15 or more degrees by day</a>)
- 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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_cuisine">Czech cuisine</a>) 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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev">GRASS developer list</a> to discuss your contribution.
Further details about the action items you find <a href="/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012" title="Talk:GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2012">here</a> and below. Topics cover non-technical, semi-technical, and technical issues.
Timeline
TODO: merge below entries from <a href="/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012" title="Talk:GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2012">RTENOTITLE</a>
Wednesday, 23 May
- 14:30: Kick-off in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, building B, room 367 (3rd floor, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Where_you_can_find_us">map</a>)
- Participants presentation
List of topics:
- various topics from the list: r.modis, add liblas support to OSGeo4W GRASS package (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass64/">download</a>)
- extension of Rtree to 4D, time series test script portability updates, ...
- see reports <a href="/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012" title="Talk:GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2012">here</a>
- 20:00: Dinner at restaurant <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.budvarkadejvice.cz">Budvarka</a> near the university, see the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.09824&mlon=14.3962&zoom=15&layers=M">map</a>
Thursday, 24 May
- 9:00-evening
- Discuss role and current composition of GRASS-PSC
- Seminar by Sören Gebbert: "New time series management in GRASS 7" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass70/temporal.html">manual</a>)
- 20:00: Dinner at restaurant <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.restaurant-uglaubicu.cz/">U Glaubiců</a> in the city center, see the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0876&mlon=14.4035&zoom=16&layers=M">map</a>
- Discussion: Generate automated command statistics with g.parser (just module name)
- Discussion: adopting CMS for Web site - huge amount of work to change...
Friday, 25 May
- 9:00-evening
- wxGUI: save session commands into protocol
- test wxGUI digitizer
- visual guide to GRASS GIS usage
- ...
- 20:00: Dinner at restaurant <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hlucna-samota.cz/">Hlučná samota</a>, see the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.071600&mlon=14.436300&zoom=18&layers=M">map</a>
Saturday, 26 May
- 9:00-evening
Sunday, 27 May
- 9:00-evening
Monday, 28 May
- Last meeting
- Farewell and have a good trip home
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 <a href="/wiki/User:Landa" title="User:Landa">Martin Landa</a> <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
In person
No | Participant | Country | Arrival | Departure | Topic | T-Shirt | Notes |
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1 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Landa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Landa (page does not exist)">Martin Landa</a> | Czech Republic | May 20 | May 28 | Toolbox concept, vector engine in GRASS 7, wxGUI, PostGIS Topology support | L | |
2 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Neteler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Neteler (page does not exist)">Markus Neteler</a> | 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 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Lucadelu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Lucadelu (page does not exist)">Luca Delucchi</a> | Italy | May 20 | May 26 | r.modis, r.li.setup gui, v.in.geopaparazzi (only if andrea antonello comes to Prague) | L | |
4 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/grass-wiki/index.php%3Ftitle%3DUser:Moovida%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=User:Moovida&action=edit&redlink=1 (page does not exist)">Andrea Antonello</a> | Italy | May 21/22 | May 25/26 | v.in.geopaparazzi, GRASS [<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.coulthard.org.uk/CAESAR.html">Caesar model</a>] input module with Silvia, singing at the pub with Luca Delucchi and Peter Loewe | L | |
5 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/grass-wiki/index.php%3Ftitle%3DUser:Silli%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=User:Silli&action=edit&redlink=1 (page does not exist)">Silvia Franceschi</a> | Italy | May 21/22 | May 25/26 | GRASS [<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.coulthard.org.uk/CAESAR.html">Caesar model</a>] input module | S | |
6 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Peter.loewe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Peter.loewe (page does not exist)">Peter Loewe</a> | 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 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Annakrat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Annakrat (page does not exist)">Anna Kratochvilova</a> | Czech Republic | May 20 | May 28 | imagery, wxGUI | S | |
8 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/grass-wiki/index.php%3Ftitle%3DUser:Vaclav%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=User:Vaclav&action=edit&redlink=1 (page does not exist)">Vaclav Petras</a> | Czech Republic | May 20 | May 28 | imagery, wxGUI, Toolbox concept ? | M | |
9 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Helena&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Helena (page does not exist)">Helena Mitasova</a> | 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 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Huhabla&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Huhabla (page does not exist)">Sören Gebbert</a> | 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 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/grass-wiki/index.php%3Ftitle%3DUser:Turek%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=User:Turek&action=edit&redlink=1 (page does not exist)">Štěpán Turek</a> | 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 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:Pietro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:Pietro (page does not exist)">Pietro Zambelli</a> | 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 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:NikosA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:NikosA (page does not exist)">Nikos Alexandris</a> | Greece | May 24 | May 27/28 | (wannabe) bughunter, assist documentation and tutorials | ||
16 | <a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=/wiki/User:MilenaN&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="/wiki/User:MilenaN (page does not exist)">Milena Nowotarska</a> | Poland | May 23 | May 27 | translation, wxGUI | S | |
17 | Massimiliano Cannata | Switzerland | May 20 | May 24 | finalization and commit of a new grass addon module r.massmov, a physically based model to simulate the landslide ruonout velocity and deposit thickness | :-o | Committed on May 25 |
18 | Monia Molinari | Switzerland | May 20 | May 24 | finalization and commit of a new grass addon module r.massmov, a physically based model to simulate the landslide ruonout velocity and deposit thickness | :-o | Committed on May 25 |
<a href="/grass-wiki/index.php?title=Sv:Main_Page/sv&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sv:Main Page/sv (page does not exist)">sv:Main Page/sv</a>
Via IRC chat
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://freenode/grass">#grass</a> on Freenode </dd>
For details, see <a href="/wiki/IRC" title="IRC" class="mw-redirect">RTENOTITLE</a>
Collaborative document scratching
- EtherPad: http://etherpad.osuosl.org
Individual Preparation
- Bring your own computer
- Bring <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country">power connector adapter</a> if needed (Czech Republic: 230V, 50Hz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Euro-Flachstecker_2.jpg">Type C Europlugs</a> are common and also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:French_plug_and_socket.jpg">Type E</a>)
- 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 <a href="/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2011" title="GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2011">RTENOTITLE</a>!
- 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 <a href="/wiki/User:Landa" title="User:Landa">Martin Landa</a> <landa.martin at gmail.com>
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