[GRASS-user] please help review osgeo live dvd summary docs

[Hamish]

Hi,

we're finalizing the next version of the OSGeo live sampler DVD,
USB stick, and Virtual Machine release. It's a live boot system
with all the latest goodies, including GRASS 6.4.2 and almost
all of the OSGeo family of desktop and server apps.
 ( http://live.osgeo.org )

It would be really helpful if others with fresh eyes could have
a look over the grass pages and double check that they're all
still relevant for v6.4.2, no dumb mistakes, you like what you
see, etc.

  http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/overview/grass_overview.html

  http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/quickstart/grass_quickstart.html

The finalized English version will go out for translation at the
end of this week. (conspicuously there are no Italian translations
yet even though there is a strong Italian FOSS4G presence, hint
hint :)

There's a copy of the quickstart in the GRASS wiki. Note that
when I wrote it there was a GRASS workshop at the targeted FOSS4G
conference which was going to focus on vector processing, so I
didn't bother to put much of that in the quickstart. Contributions
demonstrating some fancy vector usage that makes GRASS special,
or a common vector task to show how GRASS does it easily, would
be appreciated. Just note that the quickstarts are intended to be
quick- i.e. 5-10 minutes worth, so we've got to keep it concise.


In addition, on the disc the QGIS-GRASS bridge is broken because
of this bug:
  http://hub.qgis.org/issues/2947
  https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/868

(QGIS doesn't take into account GRASS's mapset ownership rules,
so the plugin fails in a multi-user environment)


thanks for any assistance,
Hamish