Promotional material

Collection of material to promote the GRASS project

Technical background, history

• Official Web site: https://grass.osgeo.org
• Description of the project (100-150 words)
• Listing the core features
• Technical Data sheet
• GRASS GIS Performance
• Software requirements specification
• Portable software: Linux, MacOSX, MS-Windows, Sun, Android, ...

GRASS GIS History:

• Project history: Started 1982, GRASS 1.0 published 1984
• Open Source GIS History

Web site history:

• GRASS Web site evolution from plain HTML to HTML/PHP with RSS integrated to hugo maintained in git)

Presentation slides

• Many presentations are available at Slideshare

Social media outreach

• https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Marketing
• Contact Databases
• Community
• Social media
  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/GRASS
  • https://twitter.com/GRASSGIS

Screenshots

• Graphics, screenshots or images that represent the GRASS GIS project (see also Screenshot suggestions)
• Wiki screenshot bullpen (please add URLs and indicate license)
• Presentations: 25 Years of GRASS GIS and The upcoming GRASS GIS 6.4.0 release (news 9/2010 - it is available :-)
• GRASS Propaganda (desktop and presentation background images)

Artwork

• GRASS Art Gallery

• GRASS GIS logos
• OSGeo marketing logos etc.

GRASS T-shirts

The community_sprints logos are available for download here.

GRASS Flyers

This flyer gives a short introduction in GRASS GIS:

• Flyer in various languages

General and specific GRASS GIS Poster

The current poster was designed for the German FOSSGIS Conference and then translated into English, Italian, Polish and Czech. It might be useful at other conferences and fairs, as well. The grass-addons repository contains the poster in PDF- and ODP (OpenOffice Impress)-Format. Translations are best stored again in the svn.

• Selection of GRASS GIS posters

Videos

• GRASS GIS videos on YouTube
• GRASS video (1987) narrated by William Shatner (Captain Kirk of Star Trek) - in public domain
• GRASS development visualization
  • GRASS GIS 6.4 source code evolution:

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GRASS GIS 6.4 development visualization from 1999 to 2013 (with soundtrack)

• • GRASS GIS 6 source code evolution:

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GRASS GIS 6.4 development visualization from 1999 to 2011 with Gource

• GFOSS.it video (in Italian with English subtitles)
• Various GFOSS videos: GRASS and QGIS
• FOSS for GIS video tutorials and screencasts (OSGeo)
• GEOSTAT2011 GRASS GIS video tutorials

How to create an own screencast? See here

OSGeo Foundation material

• OSGeo related promotion material including GRASS (PDFs, Powerpoint-, OpenOffice- & Scribus templates) and mailing list statistics
• OSGeo Marketing repository: https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/ (Brochures, exhibition packs, etc).
• OSGeo GRASS Brochures:
  • Brochures in various languages
• FOSS for GIS video tutorials and screencasts

Events logo

• Community Sprint XXXX: see subfolders

Communication & Support

• 11 English mailing lists (user, devel, Quality Assessment, ...), and 9 localized mailing lists
• IRC, see also IRC
• Companies supporting GRASS
• Press releases: Contact Databases

Project statistics

• GRASS mailing list community evolution
• OSGeo Visibility Statistics incl. GRASS GIS
• OSGeo Project Statistics incl. GRASS GIS
• https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis/widgets:

Project Metrics provided by Ohloh.

LiveDVD of OSGeo.org

• https://live.osgeo.org

See also

Category:Promotion (GRASS Promotion Team)