<div dir="ltr"><span class="entry-meta"> Wednesday, July 29, 2020</span>
<p><img src="https://grass.osgeo.org/images/news/new_grass_website.png" alt="The new GRASS GIS website" style="float: right; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px;" width="356" height="567"></p>
<h2 id="gmail-the-new-grass-gis-website-is-out">The new GRASS GIS website is out!</h2>
<p>In occasion of its <strong>37th birthday the GRASS GIS project</strong> is proud to present its <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org" class="gmail-int"><strong>new website</strong></a>!
The site has been redesigned with modern tools to be responsive and
also easier to maintain. Content is more discoverable now and easy to
browse too.</p>
<h3 id="gmail-what-s-cool">What’s cool</h3>
<ul><li>The <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/learn" class="gmail-int"><strong>Learn</strong></a> page offers a curated list of tutorials in different languages and links to videos. The new <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/learn/tryonline" class="gmail-int">Try online</a> section provides links to Binder and rollApp online applications that allow testing GRASS GIS without installing it.</li><li>Our long standing and <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history" class="gmail-int"><strong>rich history</strong></a> in the GIS and open source world is now presented in a much more attractive layout. Have a look at the timeline of <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/releases" class="gmail-int"><em>releases</em></a> and <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/web-evolution" class="gmail-int"><em>websites</em></a>!</li><li>The revamped <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/learn/gallery" class="gmail-int"><strong>gallery of screenshots</strong></a> shows some of GRASS GIS capabilities through visual examples.</li><li>Project resources easily reachable: mailing lists, wiki, RSS news feed, the various GitHub and docker repositories.</li></ul>
<h3 id="gmail-the-technology">The technology</h3>
<p>We chose a static format based on <a href="https://gohugo.io/" class="ext" target="_blank" title="HUGO">HUGO</a> and all the code and content is hosted in a <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website" class="ext" target="_blank" title="dedicated repo">dedicated repo</a> in GitHub. <a href="http://cartogenic.com/" class="ext" target="_blank" title="Nicolas Bozon"><strong>Nicolas Bozon</strong></a>
designed the website theme and many others helped with content curation
and creation. In detail, the page content is now written in markdown.
Several times a day the website is automatically deployed from the
GitHub repository to our internet server at <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/" class="gmail-int">https://grass.osgeo.org/</a> .</p>
<h3 id="gmail-what-s-next">What’s next</h3>
<p>With this new web technology and the availability of the code and content in a public repository, we want to <strong>encourage and simplify community members’ participation</strong>.
If you want your GRASS GIS use cases, blog posts and cool screenshots
to be part of if, you only need to create a pull request. No fear, we
have a <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/about/theme/" class="gmail-int">manual for contributions</a>.</p>
<p>We thank all the contributors for their input and help to see this project finally realized! Special thanks to <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/" class="ext" target="_blank" title="OSGeo">OSGeo</a> as well as <a href="https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sponsors" class="ext" target="_blank" title="individuals">individuals</a> for their financial support.</p>
<p>Stay tuned, there’s more yet to come!</p></div>