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+   <title>GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2012 - Great achievements!</title>
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+<i>Press release</i>
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+<h3>GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2012 in Prague - Great achievements!</h3>
+
+<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Community_sprint_prague2012.png" class="image"><img alt="Community sprint prague2012.png" src="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass-wiki/images/thumb/Community_sprint_prague2012.png/640px-Community_sprint_prague2012.png" height="195" width="640"></a>
+<p>
+The GRASS Community is pleased to announce the results of the second GRASS
+Community Sprint, that took place at the Faculty of Civil Engineering - Czech
+Technical University in Prague, from 23 to 28 May, 2012.
+<p>
+Following the FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics conference, the Community Sprint
+has been an exciting event, thanks to both the perfect organization by the
+hosting institution, which provided location and technical support, and
+the sponsors, which kindly financed the major part of the developer's needs
+during the event.
+<br>
+In particular, Martin Landa and professor Aleš Čepek are gratefully
+acknowledged for the organization, and the sponsors 
+<a href="http://www.osgeo.org">OSGeo</a> (Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA),
+<a href="http://www.GFOSS.it">GFOSS.it</a> (Associazione Italiana per
+l'Informazione Geografica Libera, Italy), 
+<a href="http://www.fossgis.de">FOSSGIS e.V.</a> (German-language OSGeo local
+chapter), and <a href="http://sylla-consult.de/en/">Sylla-consult</a>
+(Frankfurt, Germany) for their <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php">sponsoring</a>
+of the event.
+<br>
+The participants came from Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Greece, 
+and the United States, including several long-term core developers, new developers,
+students, researchers, and even newcomers.
+<p>
+The work has been focused on wxGUI bugfixing, GRASS 7 time series and 4D data 
+management (R-tree search structures extended to n dimensions, new time series management
+improved), translations, discussions about the planned toolbox concept,
+implementation of a new module (v.in.geopaparazzi) and lots of bughunting, testing,
+and bugfixing. For interoperability, the new QGIS-Sextante-GRASS interface was
+completely overhault and updated. The upcoming improved GRASS Python API was
+discussed in detail.
+<br>
+Developers also had discussions on broad topics like GRASS GIS usage mobile
+devices, creation of a visual guide to GRASS GIS usage, the planned renewal of the
+GRASS Project Steering Committee (PSC), and adopting a CMS for a new Web site.
+<br>
+Among the participants there were two of the three Google Summer of Code
+students, and several mentors and co-mentors. Hence this Community Sprint
+was a great occasion for the students to start working on their projects, while
+receiving live guidance from their mentors and from the attending experienced
+developers. As in the previous year, the sprint welcomed also the integration
+with other software, like QGIS, Sextante and JGrass, thanks to the presence of
+some main developers of these respective programs who solved special problems in
+the "integration" topic.
+For more information, please visit these pages:
+<ul>
+<li> <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012</a></li>
+<li> <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>About GRASS GIS</h3>
+
+The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS,
+is an Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) providing powerful raster,
+vector, and geospatial processing engines 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 has now been
+translated into twenty languages and supports a huge array of data formats. It
+is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+
+<hr>
+<address>
+<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php">GRASS Development Team</a><br>
+</address>
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