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.
Contact person: Vaclav Petras (Vashek)
Discussed topics
- How tickets work, example: #2750
- Writing a GRASS module
- 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)
- 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
Participants
- Vaclav Petras (Vashek)
- 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
Prepared upon request from the 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.
Photos
For higher resolution images contact Vaclav Petras.