GRASS Developer Summit Raleigh 2025

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The main GRASS GIS community meeting for 2025 will be a 6-day GRASS Developer Summit held at North Carolina State University, Monday, May 19 - Saturday, May 24 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

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Participants in 2024

Sponsors

  • U.S. National Science Foundation, award 2303651 (Planning, preparation, event venue, participant travel)
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U.S. National Science Foundation

Promised support:

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Bohannan Huston, Inc.

Why you should become a sponsor? While this event is largely supported from the NSF POSE award acknowledged above, we

Use Open Collective: Community Meeting 2024 or contact event organizer


Purpose

Agenda

Each day will consist of a block of scheduled sessions (tentative topics below), a block of self-organized sessions (determined by the participants and organizers), two business meals (lunch and dinner), and time for individual contributions to the project.

  • Day 1: Identification of priorities for each group of participants (introductions, group discussions and presentations)
  • Day 2: Interfacing with QGIS (gathering of user feedback, testing, discussion with developers, development of action items)
  • Day 3: Interfacing with R (gathering of user feedback, testing, discussion with developers, development of action items)
  • Day 4: Translations to natural languages and internationalization (procedures, glossaries, code adjustments, translating)
  • Day 5: Building community for GRASS GIS geoprocessing engine (missing features, documentation, user groups)
  • Day 6: NSF POSE project evaluation and community feedback, Plotting project course for next years

While the main communication language at the event will be English, participants are welcome to use other languages as they see fit. Currently, several native speakers in four languages other than English confirmed their participation.

Venue

NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA