GRASS Community Meeting Prague 2023
The GRASS GIS team is organizing the GRASS GIS Community Meeting with contributors, power users and developers from June 2 to June 6, 2023 to celebrate GRASS GIS 40th birthday.
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Prague 2013
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Bonn 2018
Purpose
GRASS GIS Community Meeting is a great occasion for folks to support the development by actively contributing to the source code, documentation (manuals, wiki, tutorials), translations, website or likewise. The community meeting is also a get-together where supporters, contributors, power users and developers make decisions and tackle larger problems related to the project, discuss and collaboratively resolve bugs, plan the direction for the project and work on new features. We welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project and the interfaces to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R statistics, OGC Services and willing to celebrate with us the 40th GRASS GIS birthday!!
For the detailed agenda, see below.
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 travel and accommodation expenses for GRASS developers who volunteer their time. If you are interested in sponsoring the GRASS Community Meeting, please see our
Any surplus at the end of the event will used for future activities of the GRASS GIS project such as the successful student mini grant program.
This GRASS Community Meeting is a great occasion for you to support the development of GRASS. With your contribution you'll enable more developers to meet. Community meetings are important opportunities for developers to discuss, fix bugs, plan the direction for the project and work on new features. Please see below for the 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 meeting 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 Meeting:
- OSGeo: 7303 USD (approved budget contribution, motion)
- FOSSGIS e.V.: 5000 EUR
Individuals:
- MarWe 50 USD
- Nick Brady 50 USD
- Johannes Brauner 30 USD
- Joaquin Perez Valera 5 USD
- Anonymous sponsors 2750 USD
In-kind contributions:
- Faculty of Civil Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (FCE CTU) - space and personnel time (planning, preparation)
- North Carolina State University - personnel time (planning, preparation)
- mundialis GmbH & Co. KG - personnel time (planning, preparation)
- CONICET - personnel time (planning, preparation)
Timing
When: June 2-6, 2023
Of course you are invited to join or leave the meeting whenever you want.
Venue
Department of Geomatics
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Thákurova 7/2077, Prague
Room B868
Map
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, reimbursements depending on the financial contributions provided by the community
- 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 Czech crown (CZK, koruna, Kč). 100 Czech crowns are about 4 Euros (see current rates).
Please let us know your time of arrival and departure, so we can book accommodations and organize the logistics.
Financial support: (partial) travel grants can be payed upon request thanks to our sponsors!
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.
During the meeting we will work on GRASS GIS on these tasks (please add more!):
- We will update and revise the GRASS GIS Integration with QGIS to simplify maintenance.
- Furthermore, we will migrate the compilation technology to CMake to significantly improve the Windows builds including PDAL support and become binary compatible with OSGeo4W.
- The extensive GRASS documentation will be converted from HTML to Markdown to facilitate future collaboration.
- Pictures, examples and workflows will be added to the documentation where they are still missing.
- Software maintenance processes are automated and documented to reduce the burden on maintainers and thus improve the sustainability of the project.
This means that there are tasks from both the programming and documentation areas to appeal to a wide range of interested parties.
Further details about the action items you find here and below. Topics cover non-technical, semi-technical, and technical issues.
Timeline
Will be specified later.
Thursday, 1 June
- Arrival
Friday, 2 June
- 10:00 meeting starts in the room B-868
Saturday, 3 June
Sunday, 4 June
Monday, 5 June
Tuesday, 6 June
Wednesday, 7 June
- Departure
Participation
We are planning for an attendance of 20 people (i.e., coding places) but of course you are welcome to join us and bring new ideas with you: we'll make more places available. Please add your name here or contact Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
In person
| Number | Participant | Country | Arrival | Departure | Topics | T-Shirt | Notes |
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| 1 | Martin Landa | Czech Republic | June 1 | June 7 | Python: create_location (#1987), Graphical Modeler improvements and single window layout integration | XL | |
| 2 | Micha Silver | Israel | June 2 | June 6 | Addon to derive soil moisture from Sentinel 2 | XXL | |
| 3 | Helmut Kudrnovsky | Austria | June 2 (18:37) by train | June 4 (18:24) by train | L | ||
| 4 | Markus Neteler | Germany | June 2 (17:17) | June 6 (12:43) | see my list in "Discussion" page | L | |
| 5 | Ondřej Pešek | Czech Republic | June 2 (17:17) | June 6 (12:43) | Python 3.12-connected issues, gmodeler | M | |
| 6 | Helena Mitasova | United States | June 2 | June 6 | S | ||
| 7 | Vaclav Petras | United States | June 1 | June 7 | init and other Python API topics, support CMake transition, revise connection with QGIS and other tools, funding | M | |
| 8 | Anna Petrasova | United States | June 1 | June 7 | parallelization, grass.jupyter | S | |
| 9 | Corey White | United States | June 2 (10:55) | June 7 | Connections with other tools, OpenPlains, JSON outputs | XL | |
| 10 | Maris Nartiss | Latvia | June 2 | June 6 | XL | ||
| 11 | Aaron Saw Min Sern | Singapore | June 1 | June 7 | Support CMake transition, r.mapcalc parallelization | XS (or S) | Possibly attending virtually (TBC) |
| 12 | Luís de Sousa | The Netherlands | June 1 (20:00) | June 5 (20:45) | Update r.mblend add-on; test CMake transition. | M | |
| 13 | Caitlin Haedrich | United States | June 1 | June 7 | grass.jupyter | S | |
| 14 | Linda Kladivová | Czech Republic | June 2 | June 6 | M | ||
| 15 | Carmen Tawalika | Germany | June 2 (17:17) | June 6 (12:43) | Happy to assist with general topics like documentation + automation, in doubt something related to actinia | M | |
| 16 | Floris Vanderhaeghe | Belgium | June 3 (train 19:17) | June 6 (train 8:25) | Helping in interfacing GRASS from R (rgrass & qgisprocess packages) | L |
If you are arriving or departing on the days of the event, please specify the time, too.
Via chat or hangout
Join our Gitter chatroom
TBD: Google Meet / Zoom / ???
Participating virtually:
| Number | Participant | Country | Topics | Notes |
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| 1 | Brendan Harmon | United States | Update integration with QGIS | |
| 2 | Veronica Andreo | Argentina | See discussion tab |
Timing of hangout meetings
Vero: available from 8:00 AM ART (UTC-3) onward
Collaborative document scratching
TBD
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 time?
- Very nice, see GRASS_GIS at OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020!
- Is the GRASS Community Meeting 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 Meeting 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 meeting?
- Contact Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
Report and press release
TBD: After the event :-)
We'll esp. craft a report for our sponsors.