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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl WikiPedia entry discussing the GPL]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl WikiPedia entry discussing the GPL]


== The GRASS Community and the Development Team ==
== The GRASS Community and the Development Team ==
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* [http://grass.ibiblio.org/community/team.php The Development Team]
* [http://grass.ibiblio.org/community/team.php The Development Team]
* [[GRASS_Translation_Team|The Translation Team]]
* [[GRASS_Translation_Team|The Translation Team]]
== GRASS education (Free GIS education) ==
The [[GRASS_Education|GRASS education (Free GIS education) ]] wiki site
offers a start to collect links, text documents and small images. Furthermore
it would like to provide a discussion platform to develop and collect
approaches, techniques, exercises and course structures for people giving
GRASS and/or other Free GIS courses.
Most people want to upload their course material including PDFs,
powerpoint presentations, Flash tutorial movies, course material, lecture notes,
etc.. Because this wiki only supports text + simple graphics files, we have to find a
solution to enable password controlled upload of large files. For this reason
it is necessary to provide a decicated general Free-GIS education server to
support GRASS and Free GIS teaching and education efforts.
From our point of view a natural home for Free-GIS-Edu documentation, video
tutorials, presentaions, PDFs, etc. could be:
* [[http://wald.intevation.org | Intevation's Gforge server]]
* [[https://www.osgeo.org | OSGeo Server]]
* [[http://freegis.org | Intevation's FreeGIS.org]]


== Promoting GRASS GIS ==
== Promoting GRASS GIS ==

Revision as of 08:28, 18 October 2006


Freedom

The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (the GPL) in the open by volunteers the world over.

GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the professional world in that it is developed and distributed by users for users; mostly on a volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free.

Emphasis is placed on interoperability and unlimited access to data as well as software flexibility and evolution rate (both added features and bug minimization).

The GRASS Community and the Development Team

GRASS education (Free GIS education)

The GRASS education (Free GIS education) wiki site offers a start to collect links, text documents and small images. Furthermore it would like to provide a discussion platform to develop and collect approaches, techniques, exercises and course structures for people giving GRASS and/or other Free GIS courses.

Most people want to upload their course material including PDFs, powerpoint presentations, Flash tutorial movies, course material, lecture notes, etc.. Because this wiki only supports text + simple graphics files, we have to find a solution to enable password controlled upload of large files. For this reason it is necessary to provide a decicated general Free-GIS education server to support GRASS and Free GIS teaching and education efforts.

From our point of view a natural home for Free-GIS-Edu documentation, video tutorials, presentaions, PDFs, etc. could be:

Promoting GRASS GIS

GRASS AddOns

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

IRC communication


Conferences


User Map


Other Free GIS projects