[GRASS-dev] Greetings to the sprinters

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nik at nikosalexandris.net> wrote:
> Hi Devs (GRASSers and Others as well)!
>
> I hope you enjoy and have great fun in Wien.  I am so sad that I could not
> join (various reasons) and assist in whatsoever. Thanks for the beta release
> of G7.
>
> On the discussion of having (some kind of) access to GRASS via QGIS: it's so
> Important!  My most recent example was on the first week of March.  I had a
> wonderful experience exploring GRASS GIS through OSGeoLive7, along with 20
> people (unfamiliar with OSGeo in general). In order to understand GRASS's
> Locations & Mapsets, as well as the region extent, we choose to approach it
> via QGIS. The transition to GRASS was then so smooth, so nice. The integration
> of QGIS and GRASS was so attractive to the people -- they loved it!

I have updated it in the train back to Trento and will send a copy to
you offlist to play with.
Hope it will be uploaded to QGIS' repo soon (the developers have received it).

Best
Markus