[GRASS-dev] Recap from the GRASS GIS Community Sprint at FOSS4G 2016 - Bonn

[Veronica Andreo]

Hello GRASS-ers!!

We share here some thoughts and impressions from the past GRASS GIS
Community Sprint at FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn.

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*Thoughts and impressions from the GRASS GIS Community Sprint at FOSS4G
2016, Bonn*

Last week we had the pleasure to attend the International FOSS4G 2016
Conference in Bonn. But not only that... before and after the conference,
two "Code Sprints" took place.

What is a "Code Sprint"? Basically, it is a group of free and open source
developers who (fueled with beer, coffee and snacks/pizza/sandwiches)
gather to develop new stuff, enhance existing tools, perform bug fixing,
translate and write documentation, discuss and decide the way to go with
the software they contribute to (essentially the software they love we
would say, it all comes to that). Anyway, in this context, also GRASS GIS
developers gathered in what we usually call the "Community Sprints", since
it's not only a meeting of developers but also of users, and other
contributors - everybody is welcome and their help appreciated.

So, what did we do at these two sprints?

Well, first of all, we had a great time! It is always a great joy to meet
again (or in some cases even for the first time) with those people that use
to answer your emails in the mailing list(s), fix or enhance modules, help
in so many ways... One feels at home :-)

But we also worked a lot! The most important is that the last GRASS GIS 6
version was released on Sunday at 1:00 am or so [1]. Also several other
issues were discussed and addressed, i.e.: the next minor release of 7.0.5
- planned for mid of September, and the new major release of GRASS GIS
7.2.0, which is planned for 1st of October 2016. Furthermore, the styling
of a new Web site for the GRASS GIS project was lively discussed. Moreover,
the participants fixed a number of bugs, backported numerous features,
cleaned outdated tickets, and added some new features. Even a new add-on
was developed in these days. Eventually also some tutorials explaining how
to work with time series and Sentinel-2 satellite data got written up. Last
but not least, a member of the community provided a new flyer for GRASS
GIS. Please help us translating, improving and distributing it!

Oh! And by Sunday evening, also the PSC election 2016 time was over, and we
got a new PSC (See results here)! Congratulations!!! For the first time,
users that have contributed to GRASS GIS project were formally invited to
vote... Isn't that great? Therefore, Community Sprints, Community Spirit ;-)

Join and enjoy GRASS GIS!
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Link to the full announcement with photo:
https://grass.osgeo.org/news/60/15/Recap-GRASS-GIS-Community-Sprint-at-FOSS4G-2016/

For more details, you may visit our related wiki page:
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:GRASS_Community_Sprint_Bonn_2016

Cheers!
Vero
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