[OSGeo-Discuss] Press release: GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2013 in Genova

[Markus Neteler]

*Press release* GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2013 in Genova


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The GRASS GIS community is delighted to present the outcome of the 3rd
Community Sprint that took place in Genova, from 2nd to 7th of February,
2013. The event took place at the same time of XIV Meeting degli Utenti
Italiani Grass e
Gfoss<http://geomorfolab.arch.unige.it/genova2013/index.php?lang=en>.
The Community Sprint was a creative gathering of both long-term and new
developers, as well as users.

We wish to cordially thank: the *Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura
della Scuola Politecnica* of the University of Genova and Associazione per
le Libertà Informatiche e Digitali (ALID) <http://www.alid.it> for hosting
and technical support. In particular, we gratefully acknowledged our
company sponsors *R3 GIS* (Merano, Italy), *GTER srl* (Genova, Italy),
*Intevation
Gmbh* (Osnabrück, Germany), and the individuals *Flavio Rigolon*
(Italy), *Nobusuke
Iwasaki* (Japan), and *Giuliano Urgeghe* (Italy).

Developers and users that joined the event came from various countries like
Italy, Czech Republic, Greece, Sri Lanka, and Germany.

The Community Sprint focused on:

   - testing/bugfixing of the upcoming GRASS 7 version,
   - backporting new functionalities to the GRASS 6 version,
   - enhancing existing imagery and remote sensing related processing
   modules,
   - submission of new sophisticated algorithms for image processing, time
   series analysis and processing Earth gravity anomaly,
   - developing/refactoring and bugfixing several wxGUI's components,
   - further development of the pygrass library,
   - translation improvements in Greek and Italian languages,
   - improving and maintaining of the GRASS Wiki's structure and content,
   - testing/bugfixing related to related to Mac OS X, MS-Windows and Linux.

Long-term developers and power users had a chance to discuss about an
integrated and interoperable meta-data mechanism that will ease off
advanced analysis of geospatial data. Another topic was the mentoring of
students for future work on desired remote sensing related features.
Participants of the XIV Meeting degli Utenti Italiani Grass e
Gfoss<http://geomorfolab.arch.unige.it/genova2013/index.php?lang=en>were
provided with hands-on support for working with complex geospatial
data.

For more detailed information, please visit the Wiki pages at GRASS GIS
Community Sprint 2013 in
Genova<http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013>and
Discussion
at the GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2013 in
Genova<http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013>
.
About GRASS GIS

The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as
GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information System providing
powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing capabilities in a single
integrated software suite. GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling,
visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of
geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It
also provides the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics
and hardcopy maps. GRASS GIS has been translated into twenty languages and
supports a huge array of data formats. It is distributed freely under the
terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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 GRASS GIS Development Team <http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Team>,
February 2013
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