[GRASS-user] 1-page grass overview

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Hamish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for the upcoming FOSS4G conference[1] we have put together a live
> dvd[2] with GRASS and a whole bunch of other OSGeo software,
> about 40 FOSS geo projects are participating in all.
>
> It would be great if folks could read through the 1-page overview
> doc[3] for GRASS (made with reStructured Text and Sphinx if you
> wondered), and the 5 minute quickstart tutorial[4].
>
> A full list of project docs on the disc is interesting to look
> through as well.[5]
>
> Also if anyone is really keen they can download an ISO of the
> DVD[6] and test that it actually works. I've already discovered
> that the new QGIS 1.5 grass plugin doesn't like the user not
> owning the PERMANENT mapset, even if it's not the one being used.
>
> Test results to the OSGeo wiki[7] and bugs to the osgeo bug
> trac'er[8] please (including doc bugs; set component as LiveDVD).
>
>
> it goes to the printers next week.
>
>
> [1] http://2010.foss4g.org
>
> [2] http://live.osgeo.org
>
> [3]
> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/osgeolive-docs/overview/grass_ove
>rview.html
>
> [4]
> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/osgeolive-docs/quickstart/grass_q
>uickstart.html
>
> [5]
> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/osgeolive-docs/overview/overview.
>html
>
> [6] http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc6/
>
> [7] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing
>
> [8] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10
>
>
>
> thanks,
> Hamish
>
>
>

Just wanted to mention that the product looks very polished and the short 
summary of GRASS is well done. Great work!

Dylan



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Dylan Beaudette
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