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

Wed Jul 31 03:31:40 PDT 2013

Happy birthday GRASS GIS...

this 30 will certainly became 50 and then 100 and then....

because... quality software... with quality algorithms... never die !!!

Maxi

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Sylvain Maillard <
sylvain.maillard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Happy birthday GRASS !
>
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> Sylvain
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> 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 _______________________________________________
>> > > Discuss mailing list Discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>> > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>> > >
>> > >
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