Christmas GRASS GIS potential contributors meeting in Raleigh

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.

Discussed topics

• How tickets work, example: #2750
• Writing a GRASS module
  • Example Python module (r.shade)
  • Example C module (r.patch)
• Parallelizing (GIS SE), Parallelizing Scripts, Parallel GRASS jobs, OpenMP
• Mailing list
• Manuals
• Review and testing
  • Continuous integration (builds) on Travis
  • Automated testing (results on NCSU server fatra, example result for one day, documenation)
    • example test contribution
  • GRASS GIS Trac Timeline
  • Example of file history: wxGUI mapcalc change log and authorship per line
  • Open Hub statistics
• GRASS GIS Database with maps in native format versus linked files, e.g. using r.external
• Logo resources
• Installation versus compilation on Ubuntu
  • installation from PPA

Participants

• Vaclav Petras
• Anna Petrasova
• and 5 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

(to be submitted to GeoForAll Newsletter)