[GRASSLIST:5416] Re: How to choose initial parameters?

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Fri Jan 31 03:14:20 EST 2003


On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:24:53PM +0530, jitendra wrote:
> How much similar I feel. May be we in developing world, have no
> specialists around and have to trudge along on one's own. This may not
> be the situation in developed countries where experts are more easily
> available or else no one takes up the challenge, it being too big! I can
> see also that the developers are constantly urging volunteers to work
> for the project. My suggestion to the list is that more volunteers
> (including me and students under me ) can   be generated in places like
> mine (viz Bombay) if we can find some easy steps to begin.
> I am very keen to get to the grips and translate the grass documentation
> in indian languages.
> If only I can begin.
> I was able to install 5.0 (but only without posgres and after a lot of
> struggle ) and now I have downloaded some example datasets (spearfish)
> and I have yet to transport from a distance via burning a CD .
> I hope it will work fine. Today's examples (John Gillette's mail on the
> list)  look very helpful.
> I wish the developers can get enough help to fulfil their own ToDo list
> of  documentation for beginners.

In my opinion writing documentation is not strongly related to developers.
Anyone familiar with a system may be able to write useful documentation.

But have a look here, there is some documentation for beginners:
 http://grass.itc.it/gdp/index.html#tutorials

Cheers

 Markus Neteler




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