Dear Members of the PSC,<div><br></div><div>since the GRASS Community Sprint is approaching, I've been asked by Luca Delucchi, who is in charge to collect the donations for the event, to prepare an e-mail to be sent to the main companies that make extensive use of GRASS for their work (he is currently listing their email addresses) in order to ask whether they would be willing to sponsor the event. We thought that such email should be sent on behalf of PSC by one member (I could do that if it's OK for you). Please find below the content of the email we are proposing to send and please feel free to propose any modification.</div>
<div><br></div><div>---%<---</div><div><br></div><div>The GRASS GIS team will organize a GRASS Developer and Power User
Meeting, aka 'GRASS Community Sprint' from 2-7 Feb, 2013 [1]. 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, Sextante, gvSIG, OGC Services (esp. WPS) and
more. This includes developers, documenters, bug reporters, translators
and others.<br>
<br>The outcomes of past editions include wxGUI bugfixing, GRASS 7 time
series and 4D data management, translations, implementation of new
modules and lots of bughunting, testing, and bugfixing. For
interoperability, the new QGIS-Sextante-GRASS interface was completely
overhault and updated. Developers also had discussions on broad topics
like GRASS GIS usage mobile devices, creation of a visual guide to GRASS
GIS usage and much more. See [2,3] for details.<br>
<br>The third 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. 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. <br>
<br>This year the Italian OSGeo Local Chapter (GFOSS.it [4]) is in
charge of gathering all the donations. Donations should be addressed to:<br><br>"Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera"<br>
<br>Details of bank account:<br><br>IBAN: IT32J0335901600100000015079<br>BIC: BCITITMX <br>BANCA PROSSIMA S.P.A. Via Verdi Ang. Via Manzoni - 20121 Milano<br><br>Any further question about donations should be addressed to Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>><br>
<br>On behalf of the GRASS Community I would like to thank you in advance and to wish you happy new year.<br><br>Best regards<br><br>Margherita Di Leo</div><div>for the GRASS PSC<br><br>[1] <a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013" target="_blank">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012" target="_blank">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012</a><br>[3] <a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2011" target="_blank">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2011</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/" target="_blank">http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/</a><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div>--->%---<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div><font color="#666666">Margherita DI LEO </font></div>
<div><font color="#666666">Postdoctoral Researcher</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">European Commission - DG JRC </font></div><div><font color="#666666">Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES). Unit H03 – FRC</font></div>
<div><font color="#666666">Via Fermi, 2749</font></div><div><font color="#666666">I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261</font></div><div><font color="#666666"> </font></div><div><font color="#666666">Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 </font></div>
<div><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu" target="_blank">margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.</font></div>
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