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

Wed Jul 31 02:46:13 PDT 2013

Happy birthday GRASS !

Sylvain

2013/7/31 Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com>

> 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 _______________________________________________
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> > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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