[GRASSLIST:3166] Re: GRASS newsletter

[Martin Wegmann]

Hello Gonzales, 

sorry, I should have read the GRASS mails more carefully .... 

a GRASS news like you proposed sounds good, but I would rather target a 
every-3( or even more)-months issue. 

so far I found that you proposed interviews, modules of the month etc. merged 
with my few ideas I would say an issue could look like:

- 1-2 modules in action - somebody can present some modules e.g. kind of 
modelling, geostats, etc.
- presentation of new modules, capabilities, rather technical
- programmer targeted article
- GRASS news - brief history what changed, how GRASS 5.3/7 evolved. at which 
stage is it. 
- upcoming events

well as you can see, I am a bit inspired by the R news letter. 

I would suggest to invent some kind of "peer review" to ensure the quality of 
articles. (some experienced grass user/developer?)

If Latex would be the layout system by choice, I would try to do it with some 
help. 

cheers Martin



On Wednesday 14 April 2004 15:32, "Fernández-Victorio Arévalo, Gonzalo" wrote:
> > Hello GRASS user,
> >
> > I wonder if there have been already discussions in the past
> > about some kind of
> > GRASS-newsletter (every 3 - 6 months), similar to the R newsletter
> > (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/).
>
> [...]
>
> > any comments about this idea? regards Martin
>
> It would be great.
>
> I considered something similar
>
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/weblist/2003-October/001368.html
>
> but I haven´t been able to start, (even after bothering Moritz with an
> interview :( ), so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do start. (Of course I'd try to
> help)
>
> Regards
>
>
> Gonzalo