[OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:05:34 +0900
Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> Thanks, Markus and all the pioneers for keeping GRASS alive
> and kicking for the last 30 years.
> 
> Looking forward for golden jubilee celebrations
> in the year 2033.
> 
> Cheers and Kampai!!
> 
> Venka

Happy birthday GRASS!

Congratulations to the generations of developers, translators, testers,
users and enthusiasts that have build up such a long-lived open source
project. I am always impressed by the fact that some developers are
younger than the codebase!

Long live to GRASS spirit - let it be a reference for younger projects! 

Best,

Anne

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