GRASS Community

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).

• How the Open Source software development model works

• WikiPedia entry discussing the GPL

The GRASS Community and the Development Team

• The Community
• The Development Team

Promoting GRASS GIS

• Promotional material
• GRASS migration hints
• GRASS Propaganda

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

• The new Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo.org) was established in Chicago. GRASS was proposed as founding project.
• Potential tasks and responsibilities (earlier proposal)
• GRASS Project Steering Commitee for the OSGeo Foundation
• GRASS Project Incubation at the OSGeo Foundation

IRC communication

• How to participate in IRC communication (#grass, #osgeo, #gdal, #qgis, #mapserver and other channels)

Conferences

• FOSS4G2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities Joint Conference 12-15 September 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland with GRASS workshops...
• GRASS related workshops and presentations

User Map

• GRASS User Map
• Description of new GRASS UserMap

Other Free GIS projects

• FreeGIS.org
• The DebianGIS Project