GRASS Community Meeting Prague 2023

The GRASS GIS team will organize the GRASS Developer and Power User Meeting, aka 'GRASS GIS Community Sprint' from June 2 to June 6, 2023.

Purpose

GRASS GIS Community Sprint is a great occasion for folks to support the development by actively contributing to the source code, manuals or likewise. The community sprint is a get-together for GRASS project members and supporters and related OSGeo projects to make decisions and tackle larger problems. For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS project and the interfaces to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R statistics, OGC Services and more.

For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS and related projects. This includes developers, document writers, wish and bug reporters, translators etc.

Sponsors

We welcome financial contributions to support the meeting and we are looking for sponsors to cover costs such as meals or to help reducing travelling and accommodation expenses for GRASS developers with far arrival. If you are interested to sponsor the GRASS Community Sprint, please read about

sponsoring the GRASS GIS project at https://grass.osgeo.org/contribute/sponsoring/

Note that it is also possible to buy a round of beer for the developers with a quick click using the Open Collective "Contribute Money" button https://opencollective.com/osgeo/projects/grass

Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to the GRASS GIS project.

This GRASS Community Sprint is a great occasion for you to support the development of GRASS. With your contribution you'll enable more developers to meet. The community sprint is an important opportunity for the GRASS developers to discuss and collaboratively resolve bugs, plan the direction for the project and work on new features. Please see below for the more detailed agenda. The developers and contributors are donating their valuable time, so it would be great if in-kind funding can be made available from within the community to cover out-of-pocket expenses. All of the work that takes place at the community sprint will be directly contributed back into the GRASS project to the benefit of everyone who uses it.

Thanks to our sponsors

We are grateful for the support which we have received to organize this GRASS Community Sprint:

TBD

Timing

When: June 2-6, 2023

Of course you are invited to join or leave the community sprint whenever you want.

Venue

Department of Geomatics
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Room B868
Map

Prague has an international airport and is also reachable by train, bus or car.

Accommodation and Costs

Participants should plan for the following costs:

• The participation is free of charge
• Travel to Prague, variable depending on where you come from
• Accommodation and meals (with the donated sponsorship money we will try to cover some expenses of the participants)

Please note: The currency in Czech Republic is Czech crown (CZK, koruna, Kč). 100 Czech crowns are about 4 Euros (see current rates).

Please let us know your time of arrival and leaving, so we can book for the accommodations and organize the logistics.

Financial support: (partial) travel grants can be payed upon request thanks to our sponsors!

Agenda - What we plan to do

Note: The program is generally open for your ideas. Please write an email to the GRASS developer list to discuss your contribution.

Further details about the action items you find here and below. Topics cover non-technical, semi-technical, and technical issues.

Timeline

Will be specified later.

Participation

We are planning for an attendance of 20 people (i.e., coding places) but of course you are welcome to join us and bring new ideas with you: we'll make more places available. Please add your name here or contact Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:

In person

Number	Participant	Country	Arrival	Departure	Topic	T-Shirt	Notes
1	Martin Landa	Czech Republic	June 2	June 6		XL
x	and you ...	...	...	...	...	...

Via chat or hangout

Join our Gitter chatroom

TBD: Google Meet / Zoom / ???

Timing of hangout meetings

TBD

Collaborative document scratching

TBD

Individual Preparation

• Bring your own computer
• Bring power connector adapter if needed (Czech Republic: 230V, 50Hz, Type C Europlugs are common and also Type E)
• Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working GRASS development environment if possible.

Broadcast & Video

During the event :)

Photos

Also during the event :)

FAQ

• How was it last time?
  • Very nice, see GRASS Community Sprint Genova 2013!
• Is the GRASS Community Sprint just a coding event?
  • It is mainly a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in the GRASS project and/or are committed to improving the GRASS project.
  • On demand we can do some presentations of current working GRASS implementation and new upcoming features to spread the idea of Open Source GIS software
• Is the GRASS Community Sprint for developers only?
  • No: anybody can help, with testing, checking out bugs and fixes, documentation and more.
• Where can I get help and more information about the community sprint?
  • Contact Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>

Press Release

TBD: After the event :-)