<div dir="ltr"><div>Happy birthday GRASS !<br><br><br></div>Sylvain<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/31 Anne Ghisla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.ghisla@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.ghisla@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:05:34 +0900<br>
Venkatesh Raghavan <<a href="mailto:raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp">raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Thanks, Markus and all the pioneers for keeping GRASS alive<br>
> and kicking for the last 30 years.<br>
><br>
> Looking forward for golden jubilee celebrations<br>
> in the year 2033.<br>
><br>
> Cheers and Kampai!!<br>
><br>
> Venka<br>
<br>
</div>Happy birthday GRASS!<br>
<br>
Congratulations to the generations of developers, translators, testers,<br>
users and enthusiasts that have build up such a long-lived open source<br>
project. I am always impressed by the fact that some developers are<br>
younger than the codebase!<br>
<br>
Long live to GRASS spirit - let it be a reference for younger projects!<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Anne<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
> On 7/31/2013 1:28 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote:<br>
> > Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns.<br>
> > Markus you and all the GRASS team deserve a big applause..<br>
> > It is GRASS that has spread FOSS GIS to begin with.<br>
> > It is the 1st GRASS users conference, Thailand that has initiated<br>
> > FOSS4G events Ravi<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > ________________________________<br>
> > From: Markus Neteler <<a href="mailto:neteler@osgeo.org">neteler@osgeo.org</a>><br>
> > To: GRASS-announce list <<a href="mailto:grass-announce@lists.osgeo.org">grass-announce@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
> > Cc: GRASS user list <<a href="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org">grass-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>>; OSGeo-discuss<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:freegis-list@intevation.de">freegis-list@intevation.de</a>; GRASS<br>
> > developers list <<a href="mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org">grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> Sent: Tuesday, July 30,<br>
> > 2013 10:02 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of<br>
> > GRASS GIS!<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Press release<br>
> > 29 July 2013<br>
> > Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development<br>
> > Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of<br>
> > GRASS GIS! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is<br>
> > a free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software<br>
> > suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image<br>
> > processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D<br>
> > visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and<br>
> > commercial settings around the world, as well as by many<br>
> > governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS<br>
> > GIS can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend<br>
> > for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is<br>
> > a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)<br>
> > and can be freely downloaded at<br>
> > <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/" target="_blank">http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/</a>. Brief history In 1982,<br>
> > Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student,<br>
> > began development on a new computer program based on a master's<br>
> > thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID<br>
</div></div>> > -- the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> > years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system<br>
> > titled "GIS Version 1 Reference Manual" was first published by J.<br>
> > Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at<br>
> > the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research<br>
> > Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further<br>
> > expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name<br>
> > Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS<br>
> > community was established the same year with the first annual user<br>
> > meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early<br>
> > mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in<br>
> > 1991 with the "Grasshopper" mailing list and the introduction of<br>
> > the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists<br>
> > archives for these early years are still available online. In the<br>
> > mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open<br>
> > GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become<br>
> > today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC). The project<br>
> > coordination eventually shifted to the actual international<br>
> > development team made up of governmental and academic researchers<br>
> > and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run<br>
> > by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the<br>
> > first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).<br>
> > A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at<br>
> > <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/history/" target="_blank">http://grass.osgeo.org/history/</a>. Since these early days GRASS<br>
> > development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at<br>
> > the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today<br>
> > GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain<br>
> > experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation which<br>
> > stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from<br>
> > 1999 through to 2013, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS<br>
> > 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now?<br>
> > Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like:<br>
> > * A new modern graphical user interface complete with<br>
> > integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools,<br>
> > * A new Python interface to the core C geoprocessing<br>
> > libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new<br>
> > modules in a quick and simple way,<br>
> > * Fully-fledged topological vector support for editing and<br>
> > tools for topological analysis and data cleaning,<br>
> > * Hundreds of new modules to analyze raster and vector data<br>
> > of all scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an<br>
> > active community repository,<br>
> > * Support for massive data processing (e.g. relevant for<br>
> > LiDAR processing) and Large File Support (> 2GB, 64-bit files on<br>
> > 32-bit systems),<br>
> > * A codebase portable to all of today's major Operating<br>
> > Systems,<br>
> > * Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and<br>
> > field laptops to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500<br>
> > supercomputers. GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team<br>
> > of around twenty core programmers, plus numerous add-on<br>
> > contributors, testers, and translators. Overall, more than seventy<br>
> > core developers have worked on the code in the past thirty years,<br>
> > making over fifty-thousand modifications to the code. All the<br>
> > while, hundreds more have provided peer review and improvements to<br>
> > algorithms and documentation while using GRASS GIS in professional,<br>
> > educational, and research contexts. Where to next? Development on<br>
> > GRASS GIS continues with as much energy and interest as ever.<br>
> > Version 6.4.3 has been released as a birthday present. Parallel to<br>
> > the long-term maintenance of the GRASS 6 stable series, effort is<br>
> > well underway on the new cutting-edge major release, GRASS GIS 7,<br>
> > bringing with it many new features, modules, enhancements, and<br>
> > cleanups. As in the past, the GRASS GIS community is open to any<br>
> > contribution, be it in the form of programming, documentation,<br>
> > testing, financial sponsorship or any other form of support. --<br>
> > <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/" target="_blank">http://grass.osgeo.org/</a> M. Neteler (GRASS GIS PSC Chair) and GRASS<br>
> > Development Team _______________________________________________<br>
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> > <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
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