Press release draft (was: [GRASS5] GRASS 5.0.0 to be released now)

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:21:13PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Sounds good, maybe we should prepare a press release
> and a schedule for its release. Okay, first draft:

I won't be able to work on the press release in the next days.
Somebody else has to pick it up.

Update thanks to Helena and Moritz:

Trento, 4.9.2002
DRAFT _NOT_ _FOR_ _DISTRIBUTION_

	First stable GRASS 5 release.

Today the GRASS Development team under leadership of Markus Neteler 
released the first stable version of the fifth generation of 
the famous Free Software Geographic Information System. 
The sources of the new 5.0.0 version and further information
can be found on grass.itc.it and several mirrors.

GRASS 5 compared to GRASS 4 represents the first major change 
in GRASS functionality in several years, with the most notable 
change being support for floating point and null values. GRASS 5 also
has a new and much easier to use windows interface based on Tcl/Tk. 
Several beta and pre release of GRASS 5 have been available in the past.
Developers believe that 5.0.0 has proven itself stable enough to
justify a wide audience release.

"This release was long in coming, because the GRASS source code base
is huge.", explains the team coordinator Markus Neteler, 
"In the last years GRASS also completely changed the development model 
adopting an open volunteer driven process and fully going the 
Free Software way."  


"This is a milestone release", reveals Professor Helena Mitasova from the
North Carolina State University, "Markus Neteler has successfully coordinated
many developers to undertake this huge endevour." Professor Mitasova
views the new GRASS 5.0 as a geospatial research environment which provides 
solid core functionality and encourages experiments and innovation.



Contact information:

Europe:
	Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
	(Requests in German, English)
	...

North America:
	Helena Mitasova
	...
	
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