GRASS GIS Raleigh meetups 2016
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Meetups focused on GRASS GIS, how to use it, how to extend it, and how to contribute to it are organized about once a month in Raleigh, NC, USA. Usual meeting location is the Hunt library, a great space at North Carolina State University campus. Meetups started with a group of people contributing or interested in contributing to GRASS GIS which met at the end of 2015 in Raleigh and decided to meet regularly in the following year. This is a page to organize meetings and to record what was done or discussed during the meetings.
Contact person: Vaclav Petras (Vashek, wenzeslaus gmail com)
December 6
- special event: open source GIS groups lunch meetup
- date: December 6 (Tuesday)
- time: 11am (lunch)
- place: Neomonde Raleigh, 3817 Beryl Road, Raleigh, NC
November 5
- date: November 5 (Saturday)
- time: 2pm - 6pm
- place: Hunt library
- room: 4502 The Fishbowl
- participants:
- Doug Newcomb
- Anna Petrasova
- Vaclav Petras
- topics:
- layer order when loading workspace (r69775, trac #3196)
- drafting new GRASS GIS website
- Lidar Analysis of Vegetation Structure
October 1
- date: October 1 (Saturday)
- time: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
- place: Hunt library (see below)
- room: Group Study 3214
- participants:
- Brendan Harmon
- Vaclav Petras
- Anna Petrasova
- and one other
- topics:
August 20
- date: August 20 (Saturday)
- time: 1:30pm - 6:00pm (feel free to come and leave anytime)
- place: Hunt library (see below)
- room: 4502 The Fishbowl (note that the elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the yellow stairs for simplicity if you can)
- participants:
- Vaclav Petras
- and 2 others
- suggested topics:
- getting started with developing custom modules for GRASS GIS
- testing releases 7.2.0 (scheduled for September 1) and 7.0.5 (scheduled for August 21), see Roadmap at Trac
- testing results of 4 GSoC projects (GSoC finishes August 15), see GSoC 2016 Projects at Trac (Cartography, New image segmentation algorithms, Web interface, Qt interface)
- fix tests, code or report an issue: r.mapcalc/test_row_above_below_bug, r.mapcalc/test_r3_mapcalc, pygrass/raster/test_history, pygrass/vector/test_doctests
July 9
- date: July 9 (Saturday)
- time: 1:00pm - 6:00pm (feel free to come and leave anytime, library closes at 6:00pm)
- place: Hunt library (see below)
- room: 4502 The Fishbowl (note that the elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the stairs if you can)
- participants:
- Vaclav Petras (changes at Trac)
- Anna Petrasova (changes at Trac)
- topics:
- backports for 7.2 release
- cartography in GRASS GIS: testing
- new features and refactoring of overlays (legend, text, ...) in Map Display in wGUI
- unicode support for Python scripts
June 4
- date: June 4 (Saturday)
- time: 1:30pm - 6:00pm (feel free to come and leave anytime, library closes at 6:00pm)
- place: Hunt library (see below)
- room: 4502 The Fishbowl (note that the elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the stairs if you can)
- participants:
- Vaclav Petras
- documentation improvements (content, style, consistency), color table modules in addons, .... (list of all changesets at Trac)
- Anna Petrasova
- fixed trac #3010 (PyGRASS vector attributes issue), ... (list of all changesets at Trac)
- and 2 others
- Vaclav Petras
- other topics:
- contributing to GRASS GIS (commit rights, addons versus core)
- GRASS GIS compilation, updating older source code
- writing GRASS GIS module in C
May 6-7
- For April and May we are meeting for two days at FOSS4G NA Code Sprint and Unconference.
- date: May 6 (Friday) - May 7 (Saturday)
- time: starts at 10:00am on Friday, ends at 5:00pm on Saturday
- place: Red Hat Inc. - 100 East Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
- participants:
- Brendan Harmon
- Vaclav Petras (Vashek)
- Simple Python Editor, GSoC 2016, ... (list of all changes at Trac)
- Anna Petrasova
- Data Catalog, GSoC 2016, d.polar, ... (list of all changes at Trac)
- and 2 others
March 19
- date: March 19 (Saturday)
- time: 1:30pm - 5:30pm (feel free to come and leave anytime)
- place: Hunt library (see below)
- room: 4502 The Fishbowl (note that the elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the stairs if you can)
- participants:
- Vaclav Petras
- Anna Petrasova
- Brendan Harmon
- Doug Newcomb
- Makiko Shukunobe
- and 3 others
- topics:
- fix r.in.lidar and large rasters (r68083)
- turning a Python script into a GRASS addon module
- planning next two meetings in relation to FOSS4G NA 2016 which is in Raleigh on May 2-5. and related possible code sprint (May 6-7)
- discussing needed graphic improvements of GRASS manual pages (index, graphical index, module man page)
- and several other things
- Introduction to GRASS GIS with terrain analysis examples wiki page
February 20
- date: February 20 (Saturday)
- time: 1:30pm - 5:30pm (feel free to come and leave anytime)
- place: Hunt library (see below)
- room: 4502 The Fishbowl (note that the elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the stairs if you can)
- participants:
- Vaclav Petras
- Anna Petrasova
- Makiko Shukunobe
- and 2 others
- topics: r.wind.sun port to version 7 as possible beginners topic (source code), v.overlay interface and possible v.clip, submitting code through a ticket, GRASS GIS in QGIS, GRASS Story video (HD, YouTube, MOV), FOSS4G NA
January 30
- date: January 30 (moved from January 23 because of the weather)
- time: 1:00pm - 6:30pm (feel free to come and leave anytime)
- place: Hunt library (see below)
- room: 3208 (Large Group Study Room; close to the Game Lab and the wide yellow stairs; note that the elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the stairs if you can)
- food: your own supplies, Common Grounds Café at Hunt (closes at 5pm), On The Oval (closes at 8pm)
- participants:
- Vaclav Petras
- Anna Petrasova
- Doug Newcomb
- Brendan Harmon
- Makiko Shukunobe
- and 2 others
- some of the topics:
- starting with Python API and running scripts in command line on Linux
- Compiling on MacOSX (ended up using brew because of problems with separately installed GDAL)
- debugging missing APPDATA on MS Windows, improved in r67709
- automated testing with Python and generating artificial data, e.g. r.mapcalc "plane = row()" or r.mapcalc "surface = sin(2)"
- discussing some GRASS concepts and more
Location
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University
- James B. Hunt Jr. Library, 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606 (map)
- Floor plan.
- The building is vertically split into two sections (library and another partially private space) and that the floor with the main desk and access to Oval is 2nd floor.
- The elevator from the 1st floor will take you just to the 2nd floor, use the stairs if you can.
- Info about Fishbowl
- Info about Group Study Rooms - Large
- Floor plan.
- free parking on Saturdays: Oval West Parking Deck, Partners Way (map)