GRASS Community Sprint Genova 2013
The GRASS GIS team will organize a GRASS Developer and Power User Meeting, aka 'GRASS Community Sprint' from 2-7 Feb, 2013. The sprint is at the same time of the XIV Meeting degli Utenti Italiani Grass e Gfoss, 6-9 Feb 2013, University of Genova, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura della Scuola Politecnica, Genova, Italy.
Purpose
This next edition of the GRASS GIS community sprint 2013 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/donations/
For questions, please contact Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com>. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to the GRASS GIS project.
The third 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. 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.
Timing
When: 2-7 Feb, 2013
Of course you are invited to join or leave the community sprint whenever you want.
Duration: 6 days
Venue
For the 2nd and 3rd of February we are hosted by the ALID association at Circolo Zenzero in Via Torti 35, Genova (in Italy universities are closed during weekends).
From 4th to 7th at University of Genova, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura della Scuola Politecnica, Genova, Italy.
Geomorfolab, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura, Scuola Politecnica - Università degli Studi di Genova, Stradone S. Agostino 37, 16128 Genova
Rooms: TBD
Accommodation and Costs
- Bed and breakfast (few rooms) - close to venue (please contact Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com>)
- New youth hostel, http://www.manenahostel.it/ - close to venue (please contact Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com>)
- List of Site of XIV Meeting degli utenti italiani GRASS e GFOSS
Weather and Common Item Prices
Agenda
Timeline
Saturday, 2 Feb
- Kick-off in the ALID association at Circolo Zenzero in Via Torti 35, Genova
- Participants presentation
- Dinner: at Circolo Zenzero
Sunday, 3 Feb
- 9:00-evening
- Meeting again in the at Circolo Zenzero
List of topics:
- TBD
- Dinner: at Circolo Zenzero
Monday, 4 Feb
- 9:00-evening
- Meeting at University of Genova, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura della Scuola Politecnica, Genova, Italy at the Geomorfolab, Stradone S. Agostino 37, 16128 Genova
List of topics:
- TBD
Tuesday, 5 Feb
- 9:00-evening
- Meeting again at University of Genova, Geomorfolab
List of topics:
- TBD
Wednesday, 6 Feb
- 9:00-evening
- Meeting again at University of Genova, Geomorfolab
List of topics:
- TBD
- Group photo!!
- Prepare press release
Thursday, 7 Feb
- 9:00-evening
- Meeting again at University of Genova, Geomorfolab
List of topics:
- TBD
- Prepare short presentations for Friday at the Italian GFOSS meeting
- Finish and publish press release
Closing of community sprint
Friday, 8 Feb
- Two hours of time for presenting Community Sprint results at Italian GFOSS meeting (venue)
Participation
In person
| Number | Participant | Country | Arrival | Departure | Topic | T-Shirt | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luca Delucchi | Italy | Feb 2 | Feb 10 | L | ||
| 2 | Markus Neteler | Italy | M + S | ||||
| 3 | Margherita Di Leo | Italy | L | ||||
| 4 | Paolo Cavallini | Italy | L | ||||
| 5 | Luca Casagrande | Italy | GRASS Tutorial with Open Data from Italy | L | |||
| 6 | Anna Kratochvilova | Czech Republic | Feb 1 | Feb 8 | M | ||
| 7 | Vaclav Petras | Czech Republic | Feb 1 | Feb 8 | M | ||
| 8 | Pietro Zambelli | Italy | Feb 2 | Feb 9 | Python and Pygrass workshops | M | |
| 9 | Martin Landa | Czech Republic | Feb 2 | Feb 10 | wxGUI, vector architecture, GRASS 7 development | L | Probably unable to come :-( |
| 10 | Massimiliano Cannata | Italy | XL | ||||
| 11 | Nikos Alexandris | Greece | Feb 1 | Feb 10 | GRASS-wiki, (re-)working on the idea for a practical & visual guide to GRASS-GIS, testing all landsat related (core + addons) modules | M | Will be there with Nikos Ves! |
| 12 | Anne Ghisla | Italy | fix v.krige, examine i.atcorr problems with RapidEye | M | Almost sure of participation | ||
| 13 | Ves Nikos | Greece | Feb 1 | Feb 10 | L | Will be there with Nikos Alexandris | |
| 14 | Yann Chemin | Sri Lanka | Feb 3 | Feb 10 | Remote Sensing, raster/image processing, will help with Landsat and i.atcorr, i.ortho.photo Block/Bundle. | XXXLL | 100% confirmed trip |
| 15 | Markus Metz | Italy | Feb 2 | Feb 8 | GRASS 7 vector processing, hydrology, orthorectification. | L |
Via IRC chat
- #grass on Freenode
For details, see IRC
Collaborative document scratching
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
Also during the event :)
FAQ
- How was it last time?
- Very cool, see GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2012!
- 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, however, we can do some presentations of current working GRASS implementations and new upcoming features to spread the idea of Open Source GIS software.
- Is the GRASS Community Sprint for developers only?
- Not at all! 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 dot com> or Markus Neteler