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* Vaclav Petras (Vashek)
* Vaclav Petras (Vashek)
* Anna Petrasova
* Anna Petrasova
* and 5 others
* Michael Reno
* and 4 others


== Location ==
== Location ==
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''Prepared upon request from the [http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ GeoForAll Newsletter] (international audience).''
''Prepared upon request from the [http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ GeoForAll Newsletter] (international audience).''


Local GRASS GIS community in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA is pleased to announce a successful meeting on Saturday December 19, 2015 dedicated to learning about how to contribute to GRASS GIS. The meeting took place at the inspiring James B. Hunt Jr. Library at the North Carolina State University Centennial Campus. Although in general contributing to a free, libre and open source project like GRASS GIS includes things such as documentation updates and GUI testing, in this meeting we focused on discussing details of writing and contributing code in C and Python programming languages. Next meeting is planned for the second half of January.
The local GRASS GIS community in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA is pleased to announce a successful meeting, held on Saturday December 19, 2015, dedicated to learning about how to contribute to GRASS GIS. The meeting took place at the inspiring James B. Hunt Jr. Library at the North Carolina State University Centennial Campus. Though it is true that a libre and open source project such as GRASS GIS necessitates many types of non-coding contributions, including documentation and aspects of test, this event focused on describing the tools and processes associated with making contributions to the codebase itself.  Bug fixes and enhancements, both in C and Python, were generally considered. These themes and others will be continue to be discussed at the first follow up meeting of 2016, planned for late January.


== Photos ==
== Photos ==

Revision as of 23:57, 21 December 2015

A group of people contributing or interested in contributing to GRASS GIS met on December 19, 2015 at the Hunt library, which is a quite inspiring place located on NC State University Centennial campus.

Contact person: Vaclav Petras (Vashek)

Discussed topics

Participants

  • Vaclav Petras (Vashek)
  • Anna Petrasova
  • Michael Reno
  • and 4 others

Location

  • Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
  • James B. Hunt Jr. Library, 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606 ([1])
  • free parking (Saturdays): Oval West Parking Deck, Partners Way (map)

Press release

Prepared upon request from the GeoForAll Newsletter (international audience).

The local GRASS GIS community in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA is pleased to announce a successful meeting, held on Saturday December 19, 2015, dedicated to learning about how to contribute to GRASS GIS. The meeting took place at the inspiring James B. Hunt Jr. Library at the North Carolina State University Centennial Campus. Though it is true that a libre and open source project such as GRASS GIS necessitates many types of non-coding contributions, including documentation and aspects of test, this event focused on describing the tools and processes associated with making contributions to the codebase itself. Bug fixes and enhancements, both in C and Python, were generally considered. These themes and others will be continue to be discussed at the first follow up meeting of 2016, planned for late January.

Photos

For higher resolution images contact Vaclav Petras.